Just had a look through your blog and it just oozes coolness. (Heh, whatever that means.) Very nice modeling. Certainly well above and beyond the “standard” kitbash description. Great work.
Excellent workmanship, I think the term my friends are searching for, is; Museum Quality.
I love the diversity and choices you made.
John
Many thanks for the nice comments, guys
However, either nobody has noticed my embarrasing typo or you were too kind to mention it…my decals read ‘Burlinton’ - not being from the US is no excuse for this fault.
Fortunately someone from another forum send me discreet mail on this - I hadn’t noticed it at all!
I just have removed the decals and will place new samples with ‘Burlington’ - avoiding the misty finish this time. Fortunately I was corrected before decaling a whole train set with wrong spelled decals.
Regards
Norman
#9908 now with corrected decals avoiding the misty cover
I finished the diner-lounge observation ‘Silver Star’, too. Center-entrance, a suppl door for the kitchen and a new window arrangement aere the main tasks
And #9908 combined with the observation
Regards
Norman
What Sean said. Like, like, like like…
-Kevin.
@Sean & Kevin - thanks for the nice comments
first pictures of the completed GPZ in its original consist:
Silver Charger #9908 - Silver Leaf (72-seat coach) - Silver Eagle (52-set coach) - Silver Star (22-seat parlor diner observation
I’ll look for a more suited environment / background for better side shots…the front of our garage is my outdoor workbench.
Regards
Norman
wow!
Amazing Models! Now, you have to post a video of them running on YouTube!
Congrats!
Excellent work Norman! Way over the top. I’m looking forward to the side shots. When I made the button vents for one of my roofs I formed the pieces. I’m curious as to how you made yours.(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Hello David,
Thanks for the comment.
Regarding the button vent:
I took the easy way and used coach/carriage bolts - a bolt of 8mm diameter/thread in metric dimensions has an appropiate ‘mushroom’ head simulating the vent on 1/29 streamliner coaches
Regards
Norman
Thank you. I never thought of those even though I sell them. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
David Marconi, FOGWH said:
Thank you. I never thought of those even though I sell them. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Hehe…thinking outside of the box …I have warned you about this!
" Rooster " said:
David Marconi, FOGWH said:
Thank you. I never thought of those even though I sell them. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Hehe…thinking outside of the box …I have warned you about this!
Once you step outside of the box, there’s no telling where it will lead.
All my life I have refused to stay inside the neat little boxes people want to put me in. So my flavor of insanity, is a good example of where one can go once they step outside of the box.
After finishing CBQ’s ‘General Pershing Zephyr’ I’ll go on transforming streamliner coaches into shovelnoses.
CBQ #9906A ‘Silver King’ and 9906B ‘Silver Queen’
Early status of A-unit a week ago
DRGW’s short-lived early M-1 ‘Prospector’ by Budd
Looking similar due to the same initial ingredients
Due to USA-Trains fluting design my Prospector will have ‘bigger’ wavelengths on the sides compared to the protoype…however, I can live with this error
Units will be powered using modified Aristo-Craft’s AAR B-trucks.
Regards
Norman
I foresee it !
Some progress on CBQ’s set
EA
EB
And DRGW’s Prospector
Front of cab-car
Complete two-unit train
Regards
Norman
Beautiful work!
Wow! Nicely done.