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Your golden-era model railroads!
I created a RR unit sign on Photoshop, using the Insignia I just created. I used a background photo of boards painted in white, then ran ghost lines through the lettering and the Insignia where the board lines would be. I think it worked pretty well, and could possibly fool the eye of...- p51
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
Two updates over the weekend... First, I got some paints (mostly washes from a company called 'AK', made for military modelers), as I'd read one made to show fuel stains makes an excellent finish for greased side rods on a steam locomotive. Others were for rain streaking and other grime effects...- p51
- Post #99
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Your golden-era model railroads!
Yesterday, I did the weathering on my Army 2-6-2T and put a couple of GI figures into the cab of my Baldwin 1917 'trench' locomotive. Notice the number plate, I created that myself on my computer. If you look along the forward part of side water tank, you can see where I tried to re-create the...- p51
- Post #98
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Army may bring back "Pinks and Greens"
I didn't even think about the officer chinstraps going to gold. They'll look much better in grown anyway. But no gold buttons, yeah, that's really an odd choice. I've questioned that ever since I saw the prototype uniforms. I work near Fort Lewis and there's a clothing support place that sells... -
Your golden-era model railroads!
last night, I got my brand new Bachmann On30 gauge Baldwin Class 10 2-6-2T 'trench' locomotive. This one will eventually wear the markings similar to the Davenport copies wore during WW2 at Fort Benning (which were black, not OD green as the incorrectly painted one at the museum at Benning wears...- p51
- Post #96
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Your golden-era model railroads!
On Friday, I got a diecast/plastic 1/43 scale model I'd ordered from Estonia of all places. It's a Chevy WW2 1.5 ton truck, a model that is nor marketed anywhere in the US or Western Europe (I assume because they didn't get the rights to make it with the brand name). It wasn't cheap, but it was...- p51
- Post #95
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Your golden-era model railroads!
Another random cell shot, of # 9 rounding the curve before crossing Stoney Creek Road at Sadie, TN:- p51
- Post #94
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combat jacket query
It's the acrtic jacket, all right. Look at: the lining, it's much heavier and a different color than M41's one. The tape gathers at the bottom edge on each side and the cuffs. That's how you tell it from a M41. An M41 has button adjustments in both of those places. The stitching underneath the... -
Your golden-era model railroads!
Random shots, mostly around Hunter, Sadie and Winner, Tennessee...- p51
- Post #93
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Hasidic Jewish hats
It's hardly PC, but I'll never forget something I heard when in the Army, a few Israeli Army soldiers (half of them were nice looking women) were walking by in uniform, and nobody but me recognized the nation. "Sir, what country are they from?" "Hmm... Israel." "No kidding, sir? Well, Oy to the... -
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Hasidic Jewish hats
I never thought of that, but it makes a lot of sense. To twist a funny quote from "Big Band Theory," I don't object to the concept of a higher power, but I am confused by one who would have a dress code... -
Your golden-era model railroads!
Five years to the day when the first train was run to each end of the layout, onto the powered turntables. This is the very last of my "five years to the day" series showing the progress of my layout. So much has changed, you can't even see the same coach is tacked onto the locomotive (which was...- p51
- Post #92
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Your golden-era model railroads!
The 4X4 inch negatives were marked for July 1943 in the old, dusty box. Sid Richardson, photographer/artist for the Elizabethton Star, was taking shots of the ET&WNC Stoney Creek branch, a rare doubleheader passing through Winner, Tennessee. Exact date is unknown:- p51
- Post #91
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Your golden-era model railroads!
I swore I saw the scale ghosts of ET&WNC conductor Cy Crumley and engineer Sherman Pippin. I snapped some shots, thinking when I looked later, they'd just be of empty track. Halloween came early for the ET&WNC! They just walked out of the cornfield at the Ensor farm, looked around, and Cy...- p51
- Post #88
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Your golden-era model railroads!
Just adding more no trespassing signs... "Y'all git on outta h'yar!"- p51
- Post #87
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Your golden-era model railroads!
There was a airborne landing for the 1943 wargame, and there were at least a couple of gliders landing substantially short of the LZ...- p51
- Post #86
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Your golden-era model railroads!
Along with the layout, I also have a related hobby of trying to find original items from the RR I model. I just got this original ticket from the Linville River Railroad, a subsidiary of the ET&WNC, from the pre-war era. These are almost impossible to find, especially in unused condition as they...- p51
- Post #84
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Your golden-era model railroads!
A sailor heading back to the USS Indianapolis waits for the westbound train to Johnson City, at Buladeen, Tennessee: On the other side the depot, a soldier lost looking for his unit for the 1943 Tennessee Maneuvers (note the empty M1919A4 machine gun on the mount) asks for directions:- p51
- Post #83
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Your golden-era model railroads!
On the 12th of this month, I had my layout open for "Oly Ops," a charity event where people come from all over to run two op sessions in one day on local layouts. Here are Toby Loftus and Eric Bessey from the Portland, Oregon area, taking a short photo break from running trains on the layout...- p51
- Post #82
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Your golden-era model railroads!
Some crossing and no trespassing signs are going up all over, in response to frayed war nerves about the recent German spy team caught with plans to blow up key infrastructure points in the US!- p51
- Post #81
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