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 Posted - January 11 2015 : 11:32:17 AM
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Zombies on a Bachmann pre-fab train station waiting on a ratted out PC
coach out of Plasticville.
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Posted - January 11 2015 : 12:00:50 PM
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I love how you did the graffiti on that coach, Chops. Very nicely done. Anyway, my BOTW for this week is an old beat up Christmas village building that's approximately G scale.
-Steve
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Posted - January 12 2015 : 06:47:06 AM
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Thanks. Poor thing started life as an SP Daylight
until I got my grubby paws on it.
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Posted - January 12 2015 : 11:43:19 PM
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My BOTW is the Tyco 7-UP. Bought another box of cherry blossom trees to place along the one side...
 
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Posted - January 13 2015 : 1:12:40 PM
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Walt, those cherry blossom trees really make that factory pop out nice. Kinda makes me want to do a modern railroad. Notice i said "kinda". Will stick with my old west scheme tho.
Six more months til I can start putting my old timer layout together. Wish it were sooner than that.
Edited by - oldtimer52 on January 13 2015 1:14:09 PM
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Posted - January 13 2015 : 6:44:02 PM
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Well thank You, George! I was impressed by the cherry blossom trees when I bought the first pack a couple of weeks ago. Got another pack of them yesterday to add more around this building. Hoping this whole section turns out looking nice! 
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 01:29:24 AM
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I'm diggin' that [maybe 1940?] [maybe Ford?] [knew that stuff at one time] in the back ground there Stephen. My wife got me the Franklin Mint 1953 Chevy pickup many years ago . . . it's been packed away in a box for a decade or more now because I noticed how dusty it was getting. Your cars look pretty clean and dust free.
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 01:30:31 AM
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I'm also diggin' how many passengers you got waitin' for that train Jeff.
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Zombies on a Bachmann pre-fab train station waiting on a ratted out PC
coach out of Plasticville.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â January 11 2015Â :Â 11:32:17 AM
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 09:20:31 AM
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quote:I'm diggin' that [maybe 1940?] [maybe Ford?] [knew that stuff at one time] in the back ground there Stephen. My wife got me the Franklin Mint 1953 Chevy pickup many years ago . . . it's been packed away in a box for a decade or more now because I noticed how dusty it was getting. Your cars look pretty clean and dust free.
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Thanks.The car is one I've had for about year or two now and is a 1939 Ford Deluxe according to the plaque on the display and the model was made by Maisto. The reason why they're so clean is because I try dusting them from time to time and do a pretty good job at it, I guess.And yes, I like it a lot too.Oh, in case you're wondering, the car on the other side is a model of a 2006 Dodge Challenger concept car from the same manufacturer as the Ford Deluxe on the other side, Maisto.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 10:49:55 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â January 11 2015Â :Â 11:32:17 AM
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this has been a Talking Station & Lighted Freight Station
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 11:03:26 AM
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| The nice thing about having zombies waiting on a train is.....................they don't complain about the train running late.....
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 12:58:48 PM
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| Walt, it looks great with the trees. How did you achieve the tiled look on the concrete surface? I'm looking to paint my sidewalks and I like the results you got.
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 4:13:58 PM
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Eric, the concrete is Rustoleum textured spray paint called Caribbean Sand. The lines are my first attempt at producing expansion joints in the concrete... I looked online to see how far these joints should be apart for heavy concrete that trucks drive on. Then, Tried to make them to HO scale... Note the smaller joint distance out front where the sidewalks are not poured as thick... The joint lines are done with a sharp pencil...
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 4:59:49 PM
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| My work space more or less inhibits me from using spray anything, but I like the results of the pencil expansion joints. Simple but effective. Thanks Walt!
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Posted - January 14 2015 : 10:25:20 PM
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| The crazy thing about it is I've had two cans of this paint and they both spray like a fire extinguisher...
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Posted - January 15 2015 : 1:27:17 PM
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* * My building of week is something special to me as a old retired BUM who doesn't want to outlast a building of remarkable architecture. I have taken a initial set of photos. I'll post here a view of this building that is something of interest from the past. Maybe I'll get around to build it.
* The little bit of history I know of it and how I found it. A little over 2 months ago I went to my first meeting of the Jersey Central Railroad Historical Society. At his meeting I was coheres in a sneaky way to volunteering to help with their Santa Train. Well I did the trip and If 7 double-deck passenger cars full of families complete with masses of happy children makes for a good day. Well I had a great day and it was a lot of fun.
* Most of time I did nothing but look out of the window at things along the right-away as the train went by. For some reason as the train went through the Plainfield area it traveled very slowly. I was doing nothing so I looked out the window. And there it was ! We were riding on a elevated section of track through a old city on what was the Jersey Central Line. Going west we were on the north side track of the main line. Down the slope to the right came slowly into sight a scene from the past. A very old all brick freight station. Built long ago before the track was elevated. With most the old buildings in Plainfield in the Historic downtown section having dates on them from the mid-1880s, this old jewel fit right in and is probably older. Late 1870s to early 1880s. Not abandoned when the track was raised and kept in operation with a siding track. It went on for years providing a service to the City of Plainfield. It is kinda beat up now. On first view of the east side of the building showed a ugly addition of a cement block storage space stands out like a sore thumb on broken hand. Then the south wall with its many, what were, paneled window openings. Then the east wall. The two story main entrance side. If only there could be better future for this interesting looking building. For whatever reason the view stuck in my mind.
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Posted - January 15 2015 : 3:38:12 PM
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| That's a pretty fine building Frank. I've watched a couple of things like that get torn down around here. It really is a shame when these building are replaced with some cheap tasteless stuff.
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Posted - January 15 2015 : 4:50:25 PM
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Well Barry that is why there are Historical Society's. They are there to do what can presently be done to preserve your history. Even if all we did was go out and photograph the existing buildings that are left. This information made public and presented in the right way could offer a chance at a new life for these buildings. Active well represented Historical Societies have saved many old buildings. In this day of digital cameras none of these old buildings should ever be demolished again, but it isn't so. These beautiful old buildings only real hope is caring people having intelligent ideas and cooperation by government.
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Posted - January 15 2015 : 8:31:13 PM
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 That's a gorgeous building, love the styling, especially all the vines growing on it.Would be a shame if that was torn down.
-Steve
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