Tim A.
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In another thread the subject got on model railroading so I'm posting a couple of scratchbuilding projects. These are from back in the day when I wore a younger man's clothes. I had a terrible camera so the picture quality is bad but what the heck.......
The 4-4-0 American is my only scratch work in brass, I'd much rather work with plastic. I built it from MR plans from the 50's or 60's. The high stepping drivers are from a junked german loco and the side rods where code 100 HO scale rail filed down. The engine is HO scale and the freighthouse was scratched too. These terrible pics are all I have of it.
The other photo's are of a scratched interlocking tower again from old MR plans and the scene is on the only working layout I built.
The trestle dio was built to experiment with rock carving from foam. I was wanting to get away from using plaster. The tunnel portal was carved plaster though. The trees were made from weed stems and poly fiber. I cut all the trestle timbers on my table saw. I worked in HO scale then....hadn't discovered the joys of large scale yet
Tim
The 4-4-0 American is my only scratch work in brass, I'd much rather work with plastic. I built it from MR plans from the 50's or 60's. The high stepping drivers are from a junked german loco and the side rods where code 100 HO scale rail filed down. The engine is HO scale and the freighthouse was scratched too. These terrible pics are all I have of it.
The other photo's are of a scratched interlocking tower again from old MR plans and the scene is on the only working layout I built.
The trestle dio was built to experiment with rock carving from foam. I was wanting to get away from using plaster. The tunnel portal was carved plaster though. The trees were made from weed stems and poly fiber. I cut all the trestle timbers on my table saw. I worked in HO scale then....hadn't discovered the joys of large scale yet
Tim
