My next side project up is weathering this newer ExactRail Southern boxcar acquired from Spring Creek Model Trains. Stay tuned….

This week’s photo shows PC GP7 5628 getting ready to work the Union Carbide mine at Hitop, WV:

Here we go with this week’s layout photo: a view of Dickinson yard on a hazy, smog filled morning in the Kanawha Valley

While finishing up my personal projects, I’m still working away on my contract of 64 narrow gauge cars. Below are photos of six more recently completed:

Below are s few photos of this Walther’s car which is now finished. Completed the trucks and wheels yesterday and installed the ACI plates this morning. Car was done with acrylics, powders, and wash of rust texture. This may go up for sale on my eBay store, but undecided as yet:

This week’s photo shows off some weathering as GP7 5628 switches Spring Street yard in Charleston

Here’s this week’s layout photo, a PC hopper and caboose bring up the rear of the Nitro turn under stormy skies:

In between working on more HOn3 models, I’ve been working on this Walther’s Mainline series SP boxcar. First up was dirtying up the car sides, plus painting and weathering the underside. The car straight out of the box is shown below: After weathering up the sides and ends the car now looks like this: The […]

Although I’m currently working on one contract, I’m always looking for more work and models to weather. What happens when I do obtain work from a modeler, you go into a queue with an estimate of when your project can start. I then will provide an estimate based on the amount of weathering how long […]

Here’s this week’s layout photo:

Today I’m showing a project from I believe two years ago. This car is also a Walther’s Mainline series car purchased from Spring Creek Model Trains. It started out as a bright yellow car which was first faded. I’m posting this to show what can be done with an inexpensive model to make it look […]

Here is a quick project that took several days to complete. I had forgotten about this model until I went through one of my train boxes checking models to either keep, some to repair, and others to put up on my eBay store. I don’t recall the manufacturer of this guy, but have had it […]

I’ll be at the upcoming Spring Creek Model Train show the July 8th and 9th at the Thayer County Event Center in Deshler, Nebraska. I won’t be there as a vendor, but will have one of my weathered cars there for the store to display permanently plus plenty of business cards for those interested. It’ll […]

Here’s my old layout photo for the week:

Several in the past have asked me especially on my Ebay store about cost, and what is reasonable. As a hobby business I, like any other online store are here to make a profit, not lose money, nor give product away. With that said, I’ve seen models listed for purchase on sites for several hundred […]

I think I may have mentioned my other rail related hobby is rail photography, where i derive my prototype photos from for weathering. I’ve been taking photos for decades, and still do today when I have the chance. I miss the old days however of varied types of locomotives, various eras of freight cars, cabooses, […]

I’ve decided once a week I plan to post a different view of my old layout, now disassembled in pieces in our storage unit. I do plan to hopefully use one of my modules shown below to set up in my den/office to have a small switching layout and a display place for finished models. […]

When working on a model for a friend or client, I always look for a prototype photo of the same number car, or a car of the same builder class. I then copy the weathering on that car, the exceptions being when a modeler wants me to freelance the weathering, or wants more or a […]

Here I’ll post some detailed photos of past work for clients, showing the process it takes to thoroughly weather a model. Any comments or questions please ask. Enjoy….!