Now for a Victorian N Scale layout

Darren French's Beautiful Cann River N Scale RR

    Modelers here in Victoria Australia suffered for years and years of not having any prototype N Scale locomotives, rolling stock or building with which to model.
    Since the Victorian N Scale Collective was formed during the second Annual N Scale Convention held in Melbourne during March of 1991 there has been a ground swell of cottage industries starting to produce really nice kits from which to build locomotives, rolling stock and structures that fit that seen on Victoria railroads.
    Lots of kit bashing and scratch building has taken place since then and you will see some of that in this video.
    Also factory produced N Scale locomotives and rolling stock came onto the market over several years to fill this need.
    It is quite a while since I did the video on Darren's Cann River Victoria N Scale railroad in fact it goes back to March 2014. We have been back a couple of times since, however the last time saw a lot more progress. Unfortunately I did not take my video camera with me on the last visit which is a pity as lots more has been completed and lots more undergoing huge changes.
    So this video will be a prelude to what is to come.

Please sit back and enjoy the Cann River.

Thanks for stopping by.
Rod.

Another view of John Faheys Santa Fe RR

This video is an on train video

     I took this video of Johns Santa Fe RR using my new small video camera a few years before the RR was dismantled.
    I hope you enjoy a trip around the Boise City Sub.

     Thanks again for stopping by.
Rod.

They are coming thick and fast

Another video added today

    Today I worked on the second part of John Faheys Santa Fe Railway Boise City sub.
This video like part 1 was created back in 2015 with the help of John at the controls of his locomotives whist cameras where rolling.

    So sit back and enjoy an Athearn F45 in Warbonnet scheme in the lead of its train as it winds its way around the SF Boise City sub.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by.
Rod.

New video uploaded today

John Faheys N Scale RR.

     I took this video quite a while ago on Johns now Fallen Flag Santa Fe Railroad Boise City Sub.
This is part one and there should be some additional content added over coming days or weeks. John dismantled his RR after selling his home in June 2015.
    Many great operating sessions were held over a good number of years.

   Sit back and enjoy what John has done.

Thank you for stopping by once again.
Rod.

Santa Fe Railway Southern Division Part 2

Part 2 of the SFRSD uploaded today

 Thanks again for stopping by.
Rod.

New video added to my blog

Hi all.

    Today I added the first of several videos of my Santa Fe Railway Southern Division to YouTube. This is Part 1.

     Over the next few days or weeks I will endeavor to add even more of the SFRSD along with videos of friends layouts I have had the pleasure of videoing over the past several years.

    Thanks for stopping by.
Rod.

Too long between posts

Why so long?

     Living in the unit waiting for our new house to be completed is a pain in the but. It has been just over 12 months already and I'm right in the middle of cabin fever. I have not done very much at all in planning for my next RR based on the MOPAC however have acquired a few additional cars and a new IM SD40-2 in the UP scheme with sound.
    This post is more about some further weathering I have been able to get done by using the kitchen table as a work space and waiting for the occasional warm day in which to be able to spray Dullcote onto the rolling stock.
    This is the latest 40 car I have attempted based on a pic off the web. Apologies for the poor photograph as the light was not the best when I shot them.
    This is the image taken from the web. The car to the far left with the large ICG wording is the scheme I had and tried to emulate  

    Here is the MT original in its clean state before being attacked.

   

     Here below we see that I have given it a spray with Dullcote and commenced the fading as best I could. I used an acrylic paint called Cool Grey applied with a wide flat brush and then quickly wiped almost all of it off using a small piece of paper towel.

     The roof received it's share as well.

   

      Now both sides had been given a grey coat and a spray of Dullcote to seal it for the next phase.

   

     The car has now received its first light wash of Van Dyke Brown oil paint.

  

     And here is the completed car after receiving a second wash of Van Dyke Brown. MT couplers painted flat black and a dab of Pan Pastel rust colour and new FVM 33"metal wheels one with a resistor for block detection. The wheels were painted Tamiya Red Brown, the coupler trip pin painted flat black with a dab of chrome silver on the lower tip. 

   Now she looks like she has done a heap of work at least.

That's it for now thanks for looking.

Rod.