Superior & Seattle Railroad Build (Volume 2) Started 2/25/17

[EricQuebec]

What a piece of art.
John Have try 'Golden Soft gel (gloss) ' rather than Modge Podge to make water ?
I use it forl years. No need to make several coat, dry in 24H, and can be sculpted when apply to make wave.... a great product ...
Eric

[Janbouli]

The machinery would make a good reason for me to go to a larger scale , I just love the detail.

[ACL1504]

John,



AND MORE -FINE STUFF!

Tom

[S&S RR]

I really like the last picture of the interior. It's very nicely done.

Curt


Thank you for the kind words.  I'm just getting started with the interior detail. Many of the machines will have work in progress.  I had to get the belt system all setup before I could start working out the details. As they say, please stay tuned.

[S&S RR]

What a piece of art.
John Have try 'Golden Soft gel (gloss) ' rather than Modge Podge to make water ?
I use it forl years. No need to make several coat, dry in 24H, and can be sculpted when apply to make wave.... a great product ...
Eric

Eric


Thank you for the kind words. I have lots of details to add to this build - I like how the structure turned out now to frame it with some nice scenery.
This is the first time I've used Mod Podge for water. Based on the drying time I will be trying the Golden Soft gel (gloss) on my next project.  Thank you for the tip.

[Lynnb]

This is really looking great, nice work on the interior.
I have tried modge podge and gotten a lot of small bubbles. The Golden products work well .

[S&S RR]

The machinery would make a good reason for me to go to a larger scale , I just love the detail.

Jan


You do great work in N scale. Every scale has it's advantages and disadvantages. I also love the details and sometimes think I should have switched to O. I think it's one of those grass is greener things.

[S&S RR]

John,



AND MORE -FINE STUFF!

Tom

Tom


Thanks for stopping by and the kind words.

[S&S RR]

This is really looking great, nice work on the interior.
I have tried modge podge and gotten a lot of small bubbles. The Golden products work well .

Thanks for stopping by the thread and the kind words.  I will be giving the Golden products a try.

[S&S RR]

I finished up the roof on the Locomotive Works this weekend, and since this is my first experience with the paper metal roofing I thought I would post the process I used to color it. Here is a picture of the roof with the paper material as it comes out of the package.

[S&S RR]

I first colored the roofing with a Alcohol and chalk mixture using the Rembrandt 409.3 Dark Brown pastel chalk.





The two long roof sheds on the left show the roof after this first step.

[S&S RR]

You will notice that I have a picture of a prototype roof on my iPad for reference.

[S&S RR]

The next step was to color the complete roof with a burnt umber (lighter and more red than the first coat) Vallejo pigment.

[S&S RR]

I then started apply three different shade of rust pigments randomly to the roof. Here is what my pallet looked like.  This final step I applied the pigments dry.

[S&S RR]

The following pictures show the roof from various angles and finally installed on the Locomotive Works.  I also applied a light grey pigment to the cooled roofing portion of the roof before I took the pictures of the roof on the building.