Just for Fun

Stony found this---- looks like a new car-sticker still in window. The source site said that the train had struck a car-carrier trailer.

soccrdad30 wrote:

Well, here are some new modeling techniques I am practicing on. John

Fallen Flags Tank Car

MILW boxcar

I have to wonder how a standard boxcar could be leak-proof enough to be over-pressurized. I can understand the PS-2 hopper being over-pressured, but not the boxcar.

John... I'll take one of each... thank you.

While researching Maine lobster boats to make in Z- look what I found--sure to bring a smile to crustacean crunchers.

I don't get it....

OK!! first of all, who has said your decals look bad? They have turned out better then mine have. I blew up the photo and i dont see anything wrong with the boxcar lettering. Maybe it just that im fighting a bad cold but it looks fine to me.

Steve aka "Slugger"

TechRep wrote:

soccrdad30 wrote:

Well, here are some new modeling techniques I am practicing on. John

Fallen Flags Tank Car

MILW boxcar

I have to wonder how a standard boxcar could be leak-proof enough to be over-pressurized. I can understand the PS-2 hopper being over-pressured, but not the boxcar.

John... I'll take one of each... thank you.

I could see where an explosion, rather than over pressurization, could have made the boxcar "blow" out.

I don't know about the boxcar either, but one thing this photo can remind all about is that "back in the day", unpaved streets were NOT a place where one would want to walk.

Calm Day

Hope an old dog can learn a new trick- multiple pics on one post.

YES! It works!

Launching USCG VIGOROUS
Added a lot of details

Fred wrote:

Launching USCG VIGOROUS

Added a lot of details

A tug-boat with a 4" deck gun and a helo-pad?

Alex-- Yup- I took some liberties with this one---I incorperated features I liked from the Cape, Point, and Island boats. Good thing I didn't try the Wind class too- or it would have had an ice breaker bow!!
The Helo Pad is for VertRep only. ! Off loading injured or recieving stores to hovering helos, under way. ( By the way- I was an LSO aboard several ships)
And I liked the Big Gun. I knew I was only going to make one cutter, so it might as well have it all.
A TUG- Foresooth-- This is a U S gobernment vessel.
Fred

This is just one of a myriad of fotos I worked from.

When we moved into this house, the back yard was rather nondiscript. Dragonlady convinced me that we should plant a GARDEN and have pretty plants - I grudgingly went about making the garden. It was very basic without any line of demarkation between the lawn and flowers. One day I told Peggy that I was going to line the garden with bricks and she thought this a wonderful idea. --She got home TOO EARLY!! ( for the fate accomply ) and saw some BIG LBG tracks on the bricks, and deduced that I had something else in mind other than enhancing the beauty of her plants. Yup Yup! Sure did! And she went orbital - stating she would lead the neighborhood in the picketing, cause great kenetic bodily injury to my person, and went looking for her Bobbit knives.
I was all set--I had an oblique dogbone for the basic layout and was ready to lay track to the cellar window so I could bring the trains in at night, suspended from the cellar cieling.
I figured I better think it out again, and to continue marital harmony, the track and trains never made a maiden voyage.
Today I set an engine on the track and took pictures of what might have been. A TRAIN GARDEN!!

WoW, Fred! The details on that Z loco are impressive! And, that scenery looks so... real!

Alex---Yup
to Quote a golden Oldie song--
" It aint Z babe, It aint Z your looking at Babe"
I know your are pulling my leg.

Fred wrote:

I know your are pulling my leg.

"Pulling your leg"?!
I thought that was a hook?
Or... a peg-leg!