Yes, it’s a model - 2
3: Ruphe & Tumbelle number 28 gets ready to take on
water at Cresco summit on Rick Reimer's layout.
Loco number 28 is a Broadway Limited Imports C-16 which
started its life in the D&RGW silver and yellow bumblebee
paint scheme. Rick carved off all of the cast on piping and
replaced it with wire loosely following photos. He repainted
the locomotive in basic black, and lightly weathered it.
The light rail, light ballast, and weeds growing through the
ballas add to the feel of a backwoods railroad.
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4: Railgon 310046 sits alone on a spur as the afternoon
sun filters down through the trees.
Dave Branum says, “I built this O scale Railgon from an Ed
Reutling/Bill Ramey resin kit. I added the graffiti and weathering
using acrylics.”
We like the simple realism Dave has achieved with this model.
The gondola isn’t a “rust bucket” but has the look of a working
car that’s seeing good use, but isn’t on its last legs. This kind of
model is a lot more typical, and to get the best realism, we feel
you should model the typical instead of the unusual.
We also like the light graffiti. We aren’t fans of modern graffiti,
since it is after all, vandalism – but if you’re going to model graf-
fiti, then the light application Dave applied to this gondola con-
veys the more modern graffiti look without obliterating the car.
MRH-Jul 2013
