In this seasons winter months I also finished my submarine kit from Pegasus Hobbies #9120 1/144 The Nautilus Submarine Kit. I had it on display at Caboose Hobbies for a couple months this spring.

 It was fun to build, I used games workshop paints for most of the corroded copper look. The base color of the hull was Rust-oleum hammered bronze spray paint.

The octopus pink and white base color was painted with enamels via an airbrush. I then did the detail painting with brushes and Vallejo paints.

I added some led lights to the eye of the octopus, inside the main cabin, and on some of the forward deck lights.

the rusted base was made from gator foam, some trim, and rust powder. The bolt heads are resin castings that I create. Lot's-o-fun.

WOW! It's June 2015 already, time flies...  Although I have not posted anything here I have been very busy building models. I will have several posts in the next few days, maybe I can get most of the builds brought up to speed here on my blog...
First news...
I have been creating some new Gn15 critters and rolling stock. These freight cars were intended to go with a sugar cane locomotive that I displayed at the Pasadena CA National Narrow Gauge Convention.  The pictures following are of the locomotive I scratch built out of brass, plastic and wood. The resin figure was once offered by sculptor Richard Kapuaala on his website "Scalehumans.com" I painted the figure with Vallejo acrylic paints.

This loco features a ESU Loksound DCC sound decoder with a custom sound file. They are neat! Very fun to watch and listen to running down the track. 

Above is a sample of the Gn15 whole cane cars I created to pull behind the locomotive. The basic flat car that is the basis of the cane cars got me thinking....

 This "basic platform" could be used to make up a bunch of different cars for different purposes.

Some Gn15 man-trip cars based on the same basic flat car that is on the cane cars.

 From there things just went into overload... I also created some fuel tank cars to hold fuel oil. Remeber.... "No smoking around these tanks they are leaky!"

Then one day while I was surfing the internet I stumbled upon an industrial shop built crane in Brazil. I had to make one of these cranes.... Here is the prototype crane:

And below is my creation, it completely works using the small hand cranks. The little pawls do lock the spool in place as you turn the hand crank. Pencil is to show size of the model.

I am working on some Koppel drop side cars and in the future I would like to make some sand cars, an explosives skip, little gondola, maybe a brake van... Fun! G