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This Conrail boxcar has lived a full life serving many customers and roaming the rails. But age and rust have caught up with it. The car is now marked for NIMX, the reporting marks for a scrap dealer in NJ. The car is headed there to meet the torch where it will become something else, like razor blades.
In reality, this car is a g-scale model I have weathered and then lettered with custom decals for Rule 90. This rule allows the movement of cars to be scrapped. Other lettering on the car warns to not load or repair the car.
A Penn Central U25B waits as a mixed freight passes on the far track. I photographed this scene on a foggy New Year's Eve on my Garden Railroad.
A Penn Central U25B waits as a mixed freight passes on the far track. I photographed this scene on a foggy New Year's Eve on my Garden Railroad.
This is a detailed shot of just one door of a boxcar I am customizing and weathering. It is a Conrail boxcar and will be heavily weathered with some major rust damage. This damage lead to the car being shipped to a scrapper, per Rule 90. Hence the "DO NOT LOAD" lettering on the door, looking fresh, over the rust.
The weathering this time has some added texture to some of the rust to really show the damage it has done to the metal. I used a combination of weathering paints from AK Interactive and some transparent oil paints.
At the time of this photo I had just added the custom decal but once this dries the whole car will need another dull coat to lock everything in.
I'm excited to see this car on the rails and in motion after lots of time spent weathering it.
My latest custom train car is for the V&O railroad to honor Allen McClelland who passed away earlier this year (2022).
I did a detailed weathering of the car's interior along with my custom decals and slight weathering of the car's exterior.
It was way too cold out today (along with the strong winds) to get a real photo, so I snapped a quick shot with my cell phone.
Both boxcars seen here are patched for Conrail. The white one is former LV while the other is obviously former NYC (thus former Penn Central).
These are cars I weathered and patched and I'm running them on a friend's railroad for his first-ever open house.
Penn Central delivered a load of glass insulators but something happened and the load must have shifted.
I modernized the roof of this boxcar, weathered it, and made a load of boxes out of a paper bag. A friend of mine 3D printed the insulators which I painted into different shades of greens (and blues) using a set of paint for glass.
Zeiss Milvus 50mm Makro Planar @ f/13
This Penn Central boxcar started life as a PRR but I patched it for PC. The prototype for this build lasted through Conrail in its PC livery so I thought this would be a great car to model.
I made the boxes for the interior load using brown paper bags.
The car is seen here on a friend's garden railroad for his first open house after completing his lovely mainline.
A project I've been slowly working on for a while is this scratch-built Fairbanks Morse H16-44 in Penn Central livery. The PC had a few of these locos and gathered them into the Chicago area to work passenger yards. They were scrapped soon after PC's tenure began.
This means they don't quite fit my plans to model early Conrail on the East Coast, so I'm going to stretch the facts, at least a little. I'm going to put my FM loco into passenger service right up until late 1976.
A few more details are left on the loco build, but it is far enough along that I think I can show it off.
P.S. Some folks may disagree that the H16-44 is the true "Baby Train Master." To them I say, "Oh well."
A vintage photo of a Penn Central freight assaulting the grade. This EMD SD-45 is a model I repainted and lettered for Penn Central using custom decals I designed and printed myself. I also weathered the loco. It is a great puller and I think it looks just as fine as it operates.
I used DxO Film Pack to create that vintage film feel and of course I love to do a pan shot to capture motion. Or as I call it in this case "Pan Central."
Nikon D850 & Nikkor 24-120mm f/4 @ f/5
My friend Kyle saw a picture of the prototype of this car and asked me to design the decals for him. Later, I installed the decals, too. We ran it for the first time after we did a rehab of the mainline this month.
A picture of the real car (and why I shot this photo at this angle) is available online via the CRHS.
Continuing with the presentation of my custom LEGO Neo-Classic Space minifigure decals, here we have Admiral Aydan Arrius sporting the new officer service uniform while he walks through the corridors of Deep Space Outpost Arcturus with Captain Robert Knight and in tow the Admiral's assistant (who currently doesn’t have a name).
To learn more about Nova Team's other adventures visit their album: flic.kr/s/aHskpavQh5
:::I’ve gone into quite a bit of detail into what I’ve been up to with these decals and my in-universe story that goes along with them at these links: flic.kr/p/uGsj68 - flic.kr/p/tN5MpG - flic.kr/p/tQUCKj
For this one, I wanted to make a full uniform for my LEGO Neo-Classic Space universe that officers could wear when they were on duty inside a ship or station and not requiring a full IEVA suit. This design was heavily inspired by the Star Trek TOS movie uniforms, made popular in “The Wrath of Kahn”. My intention though is to make the uniform colors match the department colors I’ve selected (like Star Trek TOS, TNG etc) i.e. A science officer would wear a blue uniform. The epaulettes the Captain and Admiral wear are for “command” officers and the colors change depending on department as well.
As usual, comments always welcomed! Thanks!
This hobby is a lot more fun with friends. I especially like finding friends who have different ideas, new solutions to problems, and fun ways to maximize the enjoyment of our hobby.
I visited my friend Dave Weber's railroad this weekend and it was the first time since the passing of his son, TJ. While the loss of TJ has hit the whole hobby, it was nice to see this tribute/memorial boxcar some friends made to honor TJ. I was able to capture this photo of Dave watching the train roll past.
New caboose, who dis?
This is my third LGB-based bobber caboose. These are a lot of work because the sides from the factory mold have this flat part for a DRGW logo. To make them look better, new groves have to be cut to make the planks look separate.
This caboose features a lantern on the roof, lit by track power. My other builds had lit lanterns on one end of the car.
It looks like I forgot to paint the yellow on some of the grab irons. I also ordered new Kadee couplers for this car, which will finish the project.
Running at the end of this freight, rolling over a bridge, this custom-painted/lettered Kocolene tank car was made for a friend of mine. It is to honor his father who died one year prior (October 2020) from COVID-19.
The CSX gondola is entirely scratch-built (except for the trucks and couplers) while the covered hopper has hand-painted graffiti.
As far as I know, Kocolene never had a tank car like this so this is a total "what if" concept.
My chop-nose project loco (a Conrail GP-8) leads a custom Conrail covered hopper on my friend's garden railroad at his open house. The short freight is passing a long hopper train with over 100 hopper cars on it.
My GP now has working headlights thanks to another friend's wiring work.
Nikon D610 & Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/16
While still on the newly discovered planet in the J-216 star system, Nova Team continues its exploration of the terrain with Captain Robert Knight in the lead followed by Special Operations Officer Lt. Brett Briggs and Doctor Oliver O’Conner.
This image is a continuation of my photo “Staking A Claim” flic.kr/p/A3FkbX
To learn more about Nova Team's other adventures visit their album: flic.kr/s/aHskpavQh5
Comments always welcomed! Thank you!
Before entering his Exo-Suit spaceman Pete is checking with with the systems engineer, Marissa Marley, to make sure the board is green and ready launch.
:::This image is featuring my custom NCS minifigure utility suit, this time in green to represent the salvage team.
As I’ve mentioned before, I've gone into quite a bit of detail into what I’ve been up to with these decals and my in-universe story that goes along with them at these links: flic.kr/p/uGsj68 - flic.kr/p/tN5MpG - flic.kr/p/tQUCKj - flic.kr/p/vqD47G
To learn more about Nova Team's other adventures visit their album: flic.kr/s/aHskpavQh5
Comments always welcomed!
These are the Rapido Ex Go units. But Rapido did not include decals with the units. So the owner had some custom decals made and I will be putting them on, and doing some weathering to these units for the owner.
The latest to come out of my workshop is this W&W 2-bay covered-hopper car.
It was kit-bashed down from a longer car and then custom painted and custom decals applied. The Conrail hopper on the right had the same treatment and it is going to a friend of mine. I'm not sure if I will weather this car, but if I do it will not be much as these W&W cars tended to stay pretty clean.
Other than a crop to 16x9, no Photoshop here.
Nikkor 45mm f/2.8 PC-E micro lens.
My friend Kyle made this SD50 out of an SD70MAC I sold him, along with a bunch of SD45 parts I had, too. Here we see it running on our friend David's garden railroad in Oley, PA.
Nikon D610 & Nikkor 24-120mm f/4 @ f/14
On my friend Dave's garden railroad, one picturesque area is this valley with some bridges for the trains to pass from one side to the other.
This train happens to have a Penn Central SD45 leader that I decaled and weathered. In the background is a Penn Central patched boxcar that I also did with an interior of junk (old boxes and discarded wrapping). I was lending these items to another friend who brought them to run on Dave's railroad with some of his own stuff, too. I love this sort of cross-pollination we get in this hobby.
Nikon D610 with a Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/10
My new bridge got some lettering last night and it is back out in the garden supporting trains again.
I still need to do some work to weather the rails and add guard rails. I am also pondering making a walkway.
Nikon D800 & NIkkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/18
Some friends did up this custom boxcar as a tribute to our friend TJ Weber who passed away earlier this year. I captured this photo running on his father's garden railroad.
I recently decaled the black 29' "beer can" tank car you see here. I wanted more of the short cars but the manufacturer only makes them in green for Procor. While nice, I wanted to see one in black for a change; so I made one.
Nikon D800, Zeiss Milvus Makro 50mm f/2 @ f/7.1
I started this project over 4 years ago and it has sat on a shelf. I figured it was time to finally put it back together and work on the decals a little.
An early Conrail freight led by a former Penn Central GP40 (patched for CR) rounds the curve at the highest section of my garden railroad.
Sigma ART 35mm f/1.4 @ f/9
This car is converted from an LGB bobber with modifications done to the side of the car as well was repainting and decals. It rides on Kadee ribbed-back metal wheels.
I had some friends over this afternoon. We ran trains and chatted for hours. It was a total blast. I managed to snag a few decent shots of some of the trains we ran.
Here is a motion shot of my friend's Conrail SD50 and his covered hopper. I did the decals on both of these items that he made.
Nikon Df & Panagor (Komine) PMC Auto 90mm f/2.8 @ f/8
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If you like the SPC railroad you can find more photos like this in the Jan/Feb issue of Live Steam and Outdoor RR magazine.
Voigtlander 40mm f/2 @ f/6.3
This is my experiment on using custom decal design that I made myself, using 5 different paper type, home-print & printshop, manual cut & machine cut. For sure it's far from perfect and it's not the best printing quality output but I hope it can give you some basic insight when you wanna try to make your own.
Which one you like? Have any tips & trick on using custom decal? Let me know in the comment :)
★ President Loki custom torso decal design can be downloaded, link in my Youtube video.
See the video here: KosBrick
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Custom decals scaled down from actual photos of the markings, this kitbashed 2-bay covered hopper is quickly becoming one of my favorite custom projects.
Nikkor PC-E 45mm f/2.8 tilt/shift prime lens
A Penn Central U-Boat leads a borrowed NS High Hood SD on a hopper jet past this rural barn.
Nikon D800 with Zeiss Milvus Makro 50mm f/2 @ f/7.1
My friend Kyle built this CR SD50 from a SD70MAC I sold him a while back. I did the decals on this loco, but the build is all Kyle. We see it here at his open house heading up a 100+ hopper car train.
Conrail 6743 was the last SD50 on the NS roster.
Nikon D610 & NIkkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/22
The VIA Turbo was in getting serviced and the boys put a poppy just by the entrance door of the power unit in honor of Remembrance coming up.
As an empty Conrail hopper train heads West, a mixed freight lead by a Conrail chop-nose GP goes East.
The action is seen on my friend Kyle's garden railroad. I'm really happy with how my chop-nose project turned out and this day was my first chance to operate it with everything done on it (though I may add some light weathering).
Nikon D610 & Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8 @ f/10
This two-bay covered hopper was cut down (kitbashed) from a full-size LGB covered hopper. I then repainted it and used custom decals on it to letter and detail it. All it needs now is some weathering.
Cellphone pic.
A very early Conrail freight train is lead by this patched GP40 with an old PC boxcar up front. If it it wasn't for the CR this would be a PC scene.
Sigma ART 35mm f/1.4 @ f/9
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ORIGINS
In 2085 the Orbital Gateway decloaked and appeared from the dark side of the moon. Drop Ships from World #2785 shattered the tranquillity of Earth soon after. The Ministry from Dimension X had arrived to spread their Gospel of Death.
ABOUT THE “DEATH SENTENCE” MECH
The Name "Death Sentence" was thought to have originated from the unlucky units who were sent to fight it. In actual fact the moniker was adopted by the Pilots of the mech division itself.
The mech is comprised of an organic exoskeleton and a Titanium-Ceranium metal alloy base. It has been invigorated by "Technomancy" (technological necromancy).
The mech does not use an atomic fuel core as per human technology, rather it is powered by Soul- Fusion technomancy (The CND Logo has been painted on by support Crew to mock Earth Mech pilots). A Pilots soul will power the mech for up to 1 year, exertion such as combat or self repair rapidly depletes this time frame leaving visible signs of physical degradation. Organic batteries (human sacrifices) can remove the leeching effect temporarily but piloting the mech is effectively a martyrdom. The memories and experiences of every pilot the mech bonds with are absorbed along with its life-force. In this way even "green" recruits are instant combat veterans.
ARMAMENTS
All Mechs are armed with short range shoulder mounted neural toxin shells and Hellfire "Barbecue" Missiles which incapacitate or burn rather than kill instantly. Carapace mounted tear gas and smoke launchers are also standard. The Right arm has fixed "baby monitor" which can pinpoint the atomic signature of any opposing mechs within a five mile radius. The Mechs primary armament and weapon load out, depends on its mission deployment.
This Mech is equipped with a Plexiglass/Kevlar composite shield & Vibro Katana for mech to mech combat.