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I'm building a freight hub for my next Necromunda board. First up is the scratchbuilt container loader.

More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2018/02/necromunda-freight-hub-container-loader.html

Ooh, now that's tasty... Always loved your stuff - any WIP pics of this piece?

Nice start! Subbed and looking forward to following this project.

All aboard! I forgot to share pictures of the completed freight train for the freight hub table. As many of you know, most of my Necromunda terrain was inspired by Ironhands' work and, ever since he posted his excellent converted train, I wanted my own.

This is made (almost) entirely of old O-gauge Lionel cars that I received via Facebook train sale groups or Ebay lots. In addition to gaming, I'm also a model railroad fan, so I've amassed a pretty good selection of O-gauge trains over the years.

More pics and info:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2018/02/necromunda-freight-hub-freight-train.html

Excellent work. Had to check the link for zoomable pics, glad I did. The weathering is excellent and your decals are perfect. I've read a lot of articles about decals, curious if you spray the model with a gloss clear coat before applying the decal and a flat clear coat once the decal has dried?

Also curious how you achieved the weathered paint w/ rust look.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
Excellent work. Had to check the link for zoomable pics, gald I did. The weathering is excellent and your decals are perfect. I've read a lot of articles about decals, curious if you spray the model with a gloss clear coat before applying the decal and a flat clear coat once the decal has dried?

Also curious how you achieved the weathered paint w/ rust look.

Depends on the weathering, if I plan to do oil or enamel washes, I'll gloss coat the whole thing. If not, I just apply a coat or two of acrylic gloss coat to the areas I want the decals. Then just flat clear coat over it all.

These are (mostly) "salt" weathered. Normally, you undercoat/prime, dab on some water, then apply large-grain salt, wait for it to dry, then apply successive coats, and finally rub the areas where the salt was. But, I wanted larger areas of rust, so I used a tube of old toothpaste instead of salt. Same basic premise though.

Toothpaste. That one is new to me and I see how it would apply. Excellent, thank you for that tip. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Following up on yesterday's post, here are the completed structures for the Freight Hub. Due to the volume of the train, container lifter, and the various cargo piles; I really didn't need to make very many of them. In keeping with the aesthetics of the board itself, I mixed and matched various pieces from the Sector Mechanicus kits, IMEX Platformer, and old O-gauge Lionel train buildings.

More pics and info:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2018/02/necromunda-freight-hub-structures.html

Complete!

More pics and info:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2018/02/necromunda-freight-hub-board.html

I want a train someday myself - thanks for the tips!

Great project!

That is the train set I wished for when I was a little kid.