Superior & Seattle Railroad Build (Volume 4) Started 8/14/21

[S&S RR]

That's a great little scene, John. The colors all play very nicely together.

Vince


Thank you, I'm working hard to get the coloring right on this scenery. Taking pictures and studying them while referencing prototype photographs really helps. It also really helps to have a story behind the scene.  Like all the piles of junk parts in the weeds from the days before the  S&S RR Locomotive Works, when all the locomotive work was done in the yard.

[S&S RR]

John, to pick a nit:  Seems to me that stuff tends to rust -to an even color over time-.  That pile looks like it's at least 30 years old.  If that's not your intent, you might want to shade stuff so there's more color variation.


dave

Dave


The idea behind the junk piles is that they are left over from the days when the locomotives and rolling stock was worked on in the yard.  I'm looking for them to look like they have been there for years. I also weathered the crates and boxes along the side of the buildings darker with lots of deterioration to the wood. All the new work would be done in the locomotive works.  By-the-way, the locomotive works is getting another layer of detail as I go through this process.  It's all about the details.

[S&S RR]

Once of the lessons learned when you start detailing a large section of your layout is that you go through a lot of detail parts. I'm restocking my detail castings and parts as I go so I cut and stained a bunch of railroad ties, today.  These will be used along the rail lines in both single ties ready for the repair crew or in stacks ready to ship to where they are needed on the railroad.

[S&S RR]

Detail castings is another area that I'm working on, again.  I painted a big batch about three months ago and I'm almost through them.  This is a project that I can finish, in the evenings,  at my cabin, while I'm on my fall fishing trips. I prep and prime the castings at home and then take them with me on my trips mounted on toothpicks for detail painting.  They will remain on the toothpicks until I'm ready to glue them in their final position on the layout. In the last few days I prepared 631 castings.  The flash has been removed and they have been mounted on the toothpicks. Now, I have to sort them by premier color and get started moving them through the paint booth for primer.





This batch of castings is what I have picked up at shows and ordered separately from those that come with the craftsman kits.  I paint the kit castings in batches of usually, three kits ahead. As soon as I get this batch through the paint booth I will be prepping the castings for my next three builds.


It is all about the details. You can spot a large number of the 3D printed castings from Sierra West Scale Models in this batch.  FSM and SWRM works castings are also well represented, I bought these from Railroad kits and Rail Scale Miniatures.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Impressive, John.

Cheers, Mark.

[S&S RR]

Impressive, John.

Cheers, Mark.

Mark


As you know - it takes a lot of detail parts to complete a scene. I get in the mood to paint castings and just go for it for a few days.

[S&S RR]

I took a few progress photographs of the area in front of the Stone Roundhouse for mark-up and I thought I would share them. It's getting there.

[Janbouli]

Wow , really looking awesome , you're on the right track John , and going like a TGV

[Judge]

John - Beautiful photos.  I like the wall under construction.  Nice touch. 

[PRR Modeler]

That looks great and unique John.

[S&S RR]

Wow , really looking awesome , you're on the right track John , and going like a TGV

Jan


Thank you for the kind words and for following along.

[S&S RR]

John - Beautiful photos.  I like the wall under construction.  Nice touch.

Judge


Thank you for the encouraging words and for following along. As soon as I finish the scenery in this area it will be time to start installing all of the structures. There will also be a few weeks of track work and under the layout electrical work to get everything running.  All those LED's and turnout controls have to be connected to the control panels.

[S&S RR]

That looks great and unique John.

Thank you, Curt.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Sometimes I get so carried away studying your pictures I forget to post something.  I see that happened again yesterday.

Looking magnificent, John.

Cheers, Mark.

[Keep It Rusty]

What a wonderful sight. The roundhouse, the castings... oh the castings!

Great work, John.