Here is what can be done to the ,ever popular and usually free, Bachmann N Scale coaling tower. I moved the staircase , added bracing to base, made handrails (won't do that again), modified coal chute, added cables and rings and weights, and builders in scale tin roofing. A considerable amount of work to make a structure the ACTRR will soon schedule for destruction due to dieselization.
Mike
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon
Mike,
!! Very nice work....even more amazing since it's N scale.....I'm not sure my eyes would be able to thread those cables, let alone see them!
Don Z.
Research; it's not just for geeks.
VERY nice work!
Don't scrap it too soon. The ACTRR will need it when somebody realizes there's $$$ in steam tourist business.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Mike, it's a nice model and all, but I think you should straighten some of those bent nails. A real craftsman wouldn't leave bent nails in some of those nice timbers.
Seriously, it's very nice.
Here is some progress on the ACT. These are of the finished Cattle Pen and the coaling tower in place as well as the two caboose tracks and yard turnouts ballasted.