Reichsbahn Dio update ...

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Reichsbahn Dio update ...

Post by General Blasto » Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:01 am

I deceided before posting more on my diorama that I would start a new thread that said "progress" as I continue to work on my diorama. Not a ton has been done since my last posting, but then again I have been battling the latest flu bug that's been going around :( Between that and work, I've had very little time to work on my modeling. Yet beening that it's been over a week, there's been some progress completed such as ballasting, some re-track work and I have been able to get the main track up and running. That in it's self is a big accomplishment. I still have many detailing items to do and alot of "Staging" scenes to do, but I thought I would share some of my accomplishments as the work continues :) So here are the pictures....

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My new 0-8-0 loco in service pulling the "aquired booty" train of plundered treasures from the taken over towns/cities back to the Fatherland for further use in the war effort.

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This is a car load of "Secret" things discovered to be taken back also. Plenty of troops guard this car before it's being added to the next train.
I just aquired this old collector rare "B" version of an LGB car. It came all the way from Down under in AU from Evil bay.

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My latest headache. Too much stuff in too little area. The Ju-87 needs to find a better home other than resting atop of my switch control tower :shocked: I think I need to make another storage shelf to put the abundance of locos and extra cars. The cars on the right have my building supplies - ie. extra parts, glue etc.

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This shot shows the track in this area ballasted and ready to run.
You can see the booty train and a cut of cars with Pak40s in the foreground almost ready to head to the front lines. They still need camo tarps and branches tied down on the cars.

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Another shot showing the ballasted track. Note the troop train preparing to head to the front.

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Here is the start of the supplies I will be lining up ready for loading on trains bound for the front. Soon I will be aquiring some short red cross cars for bring back wounded troops, should make for some intresting modeling.

I hope to get more work completed and more pictures shot and posted. Perhaps thiese photos may inspire others in their modeling as well :)

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Post by Stug45 » Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:19 pm

:shock: :shock: Very cool.
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Post by hotrodrock » Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:47 pm

What is the missle looking thing with the red nose over behind the troop train next to the tanker car? Can't quite make it out.

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Post by Ferrari250GTO » Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:31 pm

hotrodrock wrote:What is the missle looking thing with the red nose over behind the troop train next to the tanker car? Can't quite make it out.
It looks like it could be the front of a plane.
Not sure though

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Post by flyboy_fx » Sat Nov 14, 2009 7:46 pm

Ferrari250GTO wrote:
hotrodrock wrote:What is the missle looking thing with the red nose over behind the troop train next to the tanker car? Can't quite make it out.
It looks like it could be the front of a plane.
Not sure though
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Post by General Blasto » Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:46 pm

Yep, the kid wins it.
It's Das Bomb :P Not finished yet, but soon will be. Germany's first atom bomb. I do have a second one too :twisted: I thought they'd make a great flatcar load. Well it's back to it to work on the dio again 8)

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Post by [CAT]CplSlade » Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:39 am

Are the troops taking gigantic tubes of cyanoacrylate to the front?

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Post by RED » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:57 pm

SWEET!!! Got alot of detail in there brother!!! I love it!!!---RED---
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Post by gouchy » Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:05 pm

Wow... Fantastic dio! The scale of it... :shock:

Does makes you wonder bout the bomb, hypothetically would they have sued for peace or dropped it in Britain/Belgium/Russia out of fanatical desperation?

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Post by Light.Inf.Scout » Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:10 pm

nice!
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Post by Ruger » Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:01 pm

As someone who started out with model trains, and a lover of trains in general, these are especially cool in my book. I wish I had space for something similar, but that will have to wait. I'd love to do an outdoor layout, but that will require a different yard. I'm just lucky that I've got a woman who will let me play with tanks inside!

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Post by bswearer » Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:19 am

so

many

soldiers!!!!!!!!!!

hurray up, they are needed to help the troops surrounded in stalingrad!!! :lol:

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Post by luftpanzer » Thu Dec 24, 2009 4:41 pm

Thats cool. Im thinking of doing somthing in 1/48 scale for my Lionel trains.
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