I'm so fucking here for this. Model railroaders and gunpla builders have so much to learn from each other and also i need some 1/24 scale scenery for a diorama eventually
Cleaning is the most important part and yeah i find the iwatas clean up real nice. I got a big bottle of their own-brand airbrush cleaner which I'm pretty sure is just dilute dish soap and it does an amazing job
Oh fuck yes i love the z'gok and those colors are immaculate. I need to get on some weathering but i mostly work in aggressively bright metallics which really would not benefit, so I've been putting it off :(
See i think it's easier, I don't have to shade or weather, just pick a violently loud color and go, which really suits me well. Plus, TD is an American company and trans owned so like i know it's not some venture capital or old grognard wargamers with shitty opinions getting my money
So yesterday I accidentally created a realistic hotbox on my coworker's N scale model railroad! I accidentally made a resistor equipped wheel set with the resistance way too low due to stray conductive glue. His signal/dispatch system needs like 10K ohm to detect a car.
I did this back as a kid
No longer do
Grew out of the curiosity
Packed all the locomotives away
Not for sale
Sorry
Into horticulture now
Shoujd be fun for you
Modular model railroading is nostalgic history
I have modest plans, so we’ll see how far I get. I just needed something fun to work on that felt like a big additive project to look forward to (vs. small drawings/photo projects)
I recently attended the Sebring, Ohio Railroad Museum...talk about lovingly crafted dioramas... some built decades ago! I really liked they were labelled as to their creators... some folks long gone.
This is brining back happy memories so thank you :) When I was a kid, I inherited a Märklin model train set from my half-brothers. I spent many an hour in my parents’ attic making little trees and shrubs and installing a tunnel on a bit green board my dad painted for me. Talk about a safe space.
Hell yes! I’ve been wanting to do something with a model railroad but I don’t have much space. I briefly did some prototyping with 3D printing N scale talgo cars for an Amtrak Cascades layout. My hang up has always been wanting to make a loop, but a diorama makes so much sense!
Unfortunately thus far is the Deeply Unsexy Phase where I just built a decent solid piece of bench work for the diorama out of 2x4s and 3/8ths MDF plywood, in the hopes that when I move this around in the future, all the plaster and foam won’t immediately disintegrate. Scale is HO; size is 2’ by 4’.
n scale is too damn hard for me to get the level of detail I want out of it! This is so I can do photography mostly - I want to make promo materials for the HRT and I’ve got a bunch of rolling stock and stuff already.
I know I'm just jumping into this conversation, but HO is the perfect balance IMO. You can get enough detail for really realistic settings, but it doesn't take up too much space. (Well, it does, but you know what I mean.) Glad I found your thread.
Yeah once I put aside realistic running (something I will never do inside an apartment building) it was easier to commit to something that actually let me enjoy the realistic modeling process.
As an N scale modeler I totally get it lol. Level of detail is limited for sure, but done right it can look pretty realistic, but there are definitely limitations
I’ve also begun painting this house - it’s a Rix Products Maxwell Ave w/ porch kit. It’s kind of a cheap kit so the window frames aren’t separately molded, so I masked them and am painting them (+ other trim) in Tamiya XF-21 Sky. Lower brick/stairs get XF-68 NATO Brown.
one side came out perfect! the other there was a gap that let in some brown paint from the bricks via, like, capillary action - no big deal. I’ll be weathering the white clapboard so much I’m not concerned about imperfections at this stage.
spent a LOT of this morning doing blocking out how this river scene is going to go, ordered a bridge that should work really well with it. I have to wait for that to arrive to start gluing foam down but I can at least play with landscape/backdrop blocking now.
also tried a bunch of different techniques to weather this house siding, some of which I like and some of which I don’t. I’m going to get some pastels for the bricks and then I think I will try and wrap this soon… ish.
If you have any wood structure kits, I remember reading one neat weathering technique: before painting, put on some thin layers of rubber cement. Let it dry, paint over it, let the paint dry, and then remove those spots with an eraser. Instant peeling paint!
My dad was a train guy, and I really like the idea of diorama and scenery building, but no real room for the setup I'd want. Probably will try a small N scale setup in the future, but it's so fun.
She came out last summer, although she has yet to post a video since. She posted a few clues in her last three videos (the Simpsons themed diaromas) before announcing on her website. https://www.bouldercreekrailroad.com/about-me
She came out last summer, although she has yet to post a video since. She posted a few clues in her last three videos (the Simpsons themed diaromas) before announcing on her website. https://www.bouldercreekrailroad.com/about-me
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"Detector, milepost 66.6 track 1. You have a defect. First defect: Hotbox at axle 23. Stop your train. Detector out..."
No longer do
Grew out of the curiosity
Packed all the locomotives away
Not for sale
Sorry
Into horticulture now
Shoujd be fun for you
Modular model railroading is nostalgic history
Can’t wait to see it come along!
If you have any wood structure kits, I remember reading one neat weathering technique: before painting, put on some thin layers of rubber cement. Let it dry, paint over it, let the paint dry, and then remove those spots with an eraser. Instant peeling paint!
https://youtu.be/J-RKCq1HClA
https://youtube.com/@bouldercreekrailroad?si=8kmD9i78sdLR6WzG
https://www.bouldercreekrailroad.com/about-me
https://www.bouldercreekrailroad.com/about-me
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