The Modelers Thread

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You need a see thru roof on that one so we can admire all that interesting detail.

It's removable and there are a lot of windows; added the glazing while I did the interior.

[robert.]

A chicken in every pot!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A chicken in every pot!

I was unable to locate a plucked and ready for the pot chicken! Was able to find all sort of other stuff that made no sense to use, but it's interesting to wander about looking for 1/48 tiny details. Surprisingly large amounts of interior details. Exterior car details seems to be lagging in development in the 3D printing world. But I think thats going to catch up soon...

[healey36]

Wow, looks great!

You need some 1/48 flatware, though.

[RBH29]

WOW! Very impressive.

[HONDO74]

Would this model be called a MOW kitchen car ?

Do you have any pictures of it with the roof on ?

[gregj410]

Yep looks great! I love all the details although you can drown in them. There was an LED guy at York that had made candles for each place setting in a diner car. At the rate of all the suggestions here it doesn’t sound like you’re done yet

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You need some 1/48 flatware, though.

Looking for some stuff photoetched......not finding much otherwise that looks decent

Would this model be called a MOW kitchen car ?

Dining car - PRR XL MoW car that was used for that purpose

Do you have any pictures of it with the roof on ?

Go back a page or 3 in this thread.

[webenda]

When I visited John Allen in Monterey, California (1963) he showed me a tree on his layout that had individual leaves glued on.
He explained that he got the leaves at the bank. His bank returned his checks with a lot of holes punched in them. He asked the bank if he could have the punched-out bits. They gave him a bag full. Most of the check punches were green, so no sorting was needed. He put glue where he wanted leaves on his tree armature and sprinkled the punches on the tree.

They don't punch checks anymore (at least not at my bank) but you can buy leaf punches.

https://kalmbachhobbystore.com/catalog/modeling-tools

[Rufus T. Firefly]

..........but you can buy leaf punches.

Saw those a few years ago but they were only available from international sources. Now I'm still working on how you glue the right ends of each leaf onto the tree before needing professional help and medication.

[webenda]

..........but you can buy leaf punches.

...how you glue the right ends of each leaf onto the tree...

John was a smart dude. He only made Aspen trees with round leaves.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

..........but you can buy leaf punches.

...how you glue the right ends of each leaf onto the tree...

John was a smart dude. He only made Aspen trees with round leaves.

I was thinking about the oak and maple in your picture,

[webenda]

...how you glue the right ends of each leaf onto the tree...

John was a smart dude. He only made Aspen trees with round leaves.

I was thinking about the oak and maple in your picture,

I know you were. I had the same thought... a maple tree (genus Acer) with a trunk around 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter will have about 100,000 leaves in a good summer.

Only gregj410 makes big full grown trees. The rest of us use little trees. Maybe you could scale it down to only needing to tweezer on 10,000 leaves.

[healey36]

I’ve seen 1/35-scale leaves for the armor modeling crowd. I don’t think they use them to make an entire tree, but instead individual branches that they pile on vehicles for improvised camouflage. It can look really great, but I can imagine it’s tedious making the stuff.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The rest of us use little trees.

I actually have some pretty good sized trees on my layout, but even those are small relative to the scale. I tried to get the largest I could find that were also within budget. Glad I'll not be needing trees again.

Maybe you could scale it down to only needing to tweezer on 10,000 leaves.

The only time I get into anything like that sort of exercise in tedium is putting nbw's into freight cars that I'm building; trolley I'm finishing up does have several hundred on each side and drilling for those and then inserting them was enough pain. Ran through several packs of nbw's.....