Tagged: modeling

April 12, 2006

Scratch building a municipal water tower

Here is my first attempt at scratch building. It is a municipal water tower, pictured here next to L&N Alco C630 #1432. It’s basically made out of styrene and a wooden egg cup I picked up at Hobby Lobby. It’s not finished yet, but it’s turning out better than I thought it would.

March 14, 2006

Airbrushing Experiment

Here is my first airbrushed and decaled rail model. The car is a Bachmann 40′ boxcar. This is the car I’ve been using as an adapter car between my Rapido equipped locomotives and my MT coupled rolling stock. I used an Airbrush City airbrush and compressor. The model is NOT prototypical, but I think it [...]

September 21, 2005

First Model

This is the first model I have ever completed that I can think of. It is the USS Enterprise. Ths model is of the Enterprise as is appeared in the second pilot for the series (“Where No Man Has Gone Before”). There is also a small decorative stand that comes with it, but I’m still [...]