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Added 9/28/10
I took these on my buddy Dave's home layout. I met Dave
through another friend/fellow club member. Dave is not a member of our club
as his schedule will not really permit it, however he is an avid model railroader
and in my opinion an artist in every sense of the word.
In addition to his full time job, which is very cool as a sound engineer for
the group Mannheim Steamroller,
Dave does custom kit building, rolling stock detailing, and decoder installations.
I took all of the pics on his layout. Although it's in one small area, he
packed quite a bit into his bent dog bone design. Pictures alone cannot show
how detailed and simply gorgeous as I said he's an artist in every sense of
the word. In fact on a separate project he and I are building a couple of
modules for our club to promote membership at local train shows. His theme
is the UP in the late 50's/early 60's in the southwest hence the desert motif.
Not exactly ARR country but what the heck. ;)
You might recognize the engines from earlier pics I sent you. They are the
same Kato SD-40/45's Jeff King did for me as a fantasy about 5 years ago.
Dave just took them a little further with a little weathering, he's spoiled
me. I don't think I can ever run on a "clean" engine again. lol
I'm hoping to learn some of his techniques as time goes along. Not sure if
I'll ever be as good as him but it's still a skill I'd like to learn.
I attached a few more pics, most of these I took for Dave for his website
to display his work. The MP-15's Dave also dirtied up for me. I picked these
up from Randy at Roundhouse Hobbies.
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Added 7/4/11
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Also see these GP40's under Robert Krol's four GP49s creation page.
Denali Star meets the Oil Can (8/8/11)
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