Snow’s coming …
Well progress has been impeded by the passing of a kidney stone… (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-yell.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif)
I really doubt this one will ever see snow as it is way to light, and way to detailed. If I can ever finish this one then a brass model would be next.
Craig Townsend said:
Well progress has been impeded by the passing of a kidney stone… (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-yell.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif)
I hate when that happens … been there done that.
:said …but I’m feeling MUCH better now!
I hope you can say the same!
Craig, you are too young for Kidney stones. Nice work on the dozer though.
Chris
Chris Kieffer said:
Craig, you are too young for Kidney stones. Nice work on the dozer though.
Chris
Apparently not…(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif) Although my 7th grade students think I’m 20years older than I actually am…
I have been working on researching the dates of repaints on the dozer model. Debating if I want to paint this one in a later paint scheme outside of my modeling era or not. The weathering is what looks fun.
I am still in love with the orange one with teeth and the Calvin sticker
Yea, the orange is more eye catching.
Craig, good job. It looks good!
That orange is eye catching but its that ugly BNSF paint scheme… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)Ironically they spend all that money to repaint the dozer, when only just last year it was scrapped due to a rotted out center sill. Not sure why they didn’t repair the centersill before doing a massive repaint job. The teeth and Calvin stickers were not okayed by management and were ordered to be painted out only after the officials discovered it. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
That’s management for you.
So I just found out the date of this years RPM meet, April 29. I brought this build to the meet last year, but it wasn’t nearly completed. My goal is to try and finish this, or at least get some more done before April. I will try to post some updated photos when I get a chance. I’m currently working on the interior details. I need to prime the outside to see how much more sanding I need to get a smooth surface before I can start adding the exterior details. Off to the garage…
PS. I passed the kidney stone on Christmas eve… A “small” 5mm stone. Sweet relief!
As stones go, that is fairly small. Those small ones can be vicious, though. I know.
Here’s a photo dump of the fitly little bits that I’ve been making.
First off is the pneumatic cylinders that used to open and close the drag wings and the front wings. I still have to make one more larger pneumatic cylinder that lowers/raises the whole front end, but these took a few evenings of work to research and then build. The drawings specified the bore and the stroke length so from that I was able to figure out the rest of the dimensions or something close. The top piece is the platform where the seats and controls are. I’m planning on making it removable so that you can see the fitly details once they are installed.
Here are the pneumatic cylinders set in place. I still have to figure out how the back 4 are mounted and at what height above the floor.
And here you can see the control/cab floor set in place with the stairs and the stair railing. Right now over half of the front pneumatic cylinders are already covered up, and will be 100% cut off in this view once the cab sides are completed (a trim piece connects the floor with the control stand). So why model it? Just cause I want to torment myself. Hence, the idea of the removable cab floor.
Here’s another shot of the front plow arrangement sitting in place. This has some more detail to be added but for now it stands like this.
I’ve also been playing around with some paint peeling techniques from the amour modelers. Neither method was successful, but it was a good first attempt. The two methods are; the hairspray and the rubber cement. With both ideas you paint your bottom layer your ‘rust’ color. Apply hairspray or rubber cement, paint top color. Scrap/brush away hairspray/rubber cement to reveal paint below.
Cool!! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-smile.gif)Nice work so far Craig…
That single hue of green would show off the rust effects better than orange which has less contrast to the reddish-brown rust.
And then there is the salt technique. Again a base coat of rust colour, and then salt is applied to the model and then the top coat of paint is applied. I don’t remember all the details on how its done, but it has been posted here on LSC before.
David Maynard said:
And then there is the salt technique. Again a base coat of rust colour, and then salt is applied to the model and then the top coat of paint is applied. I don’t remember all the details on how its done, but it has been posted here on LSC before.
I’m going to try that method next. From what I’ve read, you need a couple different size grains of salt. I’ve got regular and kosher. From what I’ve read, you have to wet the salt so that it sticks to the surface. I wonder if sugar would work too?
Forrest Scott Wood said:
That single hue of green would show off the rust effects better than orange which has less contrast to the reddish-brown rust.
So that test piece was no where near the actual colors I’m going to use. I grabbed to random bottle of paint and. Brushed them on. On the prototype, the color layers ate even more complex. In some places the layers are 4 paint colors thick. Badr of GN red, than years of BN green over the top. So when it rusts out, you get rust, red, and different colors of green showing through. I read a technique for doing 3 or 4 layers of painting using the hairspray method, sealing the layers as you chip away. I figure at the rate in going with this build, it will take me the better part of a year to weather the darn thing. The problem is I’m at the stage were I need to start painting some of the details that will be inaccessible once assembled.
Steve Featherkile said:
As stones go, that is fairly small. Those small ones can be vicious, though. I know.
The Doc said it was on the small size, but also on the upper limit of what you can normally pass without surgery. The funny thing was she scheduled a date for removal, and about a week later the stone popped out. The best part of the whole thing was the prank I got to pull on my students when they came back from break.
My 9th and 7th graders had been bugging me for weeks about my stone and why wanted me to bring it in to show it off. So I told them that I would. The day of show and tell, I set out a couple of nerds (small rock like candy) under my document camera. As the kids were all saying “oh gross, nasty”, I plopped the nerds into my mouth and ate them. That got even a bigger reaction from the kids. They all went “you just ate your kidney stone”…
It was the best prank I got to pull on these kids all year long. I have to make Mr. Townsend’s class interesting somehow… The funny thing was I pulled this off 5 times throughout the day, and the 1st period reaction was just as good as 6th period! Normally by the end of the day, there are no surprises left.
Really taking shape there Craig. Good work on the classes. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
