russ_q4b:
I'm not sure if you have seen RDG_Casey's threads on building locomotives using styrene. Of course, he is using commercially manufactured chassis and drives, but his results are amazing. Here are his latest projects:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/p/248717/2792051.aspx#2792051
Sorry, I can't seem to get the link to go to the top of the thread. You will have to scroll way up.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
I'm lucky: I have bound volumes of MR from 1945 through 1962, plus three years' of loose copes in magazine file boxes, so I have stuff like several construction series by Mel Thornburgh on building O scale locos--mostly B&O, but one Wabash (Mogul)--and a couple of HO locos. Plus, he did other stuff, plus others built in several scales. Sadly, I had every MR, with indexes, from January, 1962 through December, 2008, but couldn't find big, sturdy boxes in which to pack all those magazine file boxes, which held two and a half years each, and had to scrap them in the move out of my old apartment. (Pardon me while I have a good cry--again.)
As others have said, the used magazines are available (I've been buying specific issues from a well-known East Coast "transportation" magazine place (am I allowed to say, "Railpub.com"?). MR will gladly sell you photocopies of specific articles. (That All-Time Goody would be just the ticket, if you can afford it, and I can't. You can print out hard copies from it and everything.)
When I first got my feet wet, customizing HO brass steam locos, I used Thornburgh's 6-part Wabash Mogul series for guidance. That series was in January through June of 1959, MR's 25th anniversary, and what I learned from him and others has stood me in good stead (I built a chunky little 42"-drivered O scale Mogul over an inexpensive Japanese mechanism when I was 24 and still a little rough around the edges. I took it into Milwaukee and showed it to Linn Westcott, who liked it enough to send me to Art Schmitt, the Company Photographer. (You'll find it in the June, 1965, MR, if you're interested."
The biggest problem, as was pointed out (pardon me; I can't look back, locked in this mode) is finding out, but maybe some of the Old-timers could compile a list. I did a series on superdetailing the popular HO Porter Mogul for MR, but they only printed the first one, where I suggested one should perhaps build "Tenders First," to help feel more comfortable working around expensive imported brass locos.
Perhaps you could let us know what type of loco you'd like to build and we can make suggestions? Lots-a-luck--and happy railroadin'!
Deano
MRHmagdotcom ran a series on scratchbuilding a steam engine from styrene within the past few years. If you Google "steam locomotive from styrene" it should turn up.
I would like a series on scratch building a steam locomotive made out of sheet styrene.
yougottawantaA series on how to build a steam engine from scratch
Gordon Odegard, a former MR author.
"A USRA Mikado In Brass"
An 8 part series starting in October 1982
http://trc.trains.com/Train%20Magazine%20Index.aspx?articleId=15276&view=ViewIssue&issueId=694
Actually, a lot of this stuff has been posted here. But the search engine sucks so badly that you cannot find it. Google does better seaching this forum than the built in search engine. Most of us here, when we finish a project, we post about it just to show it off and get a few backpats. Trouble is, I haven't finished any MR projects this summer, being sucked off into fixing up the shop and building a stand for my new jointer.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
Articles like that in MR (print or digital version)?Some of the scratchbuilding articles you mentioned have been in other publications which will remain nameless (but not initialless - RMC and MRH).Small details fabrication like litter, retaining walls, concrete structures etc have been featured in threads on these forums in years past - just search, giving up only when the spam results start to outnumber the valid thread results.
Doesn't MR normally publish a lot of how-to scenery articles, especially start to finish ones when they begin a new featured layout construction series? They may use Woodland Scenics, Busch and JTT scenery items in preference to 1950s style dye-colored sawdust, but it's how-to scenery just the same...
You can have any of those articles you like by:
1) Submitting said articles, or
2) View the archives for things such as this that have already been printed.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Hello all
I have been member for a while and I have noticed a change over in article topics. For instance now days most articles are on how to fine tune, add to ready to run products. I would really like to see articles that go into greater depth. Here are a few on my wish list :
A series on how to build a steam engine from scratch
A series on how to landscape from scratch to finish
A series on how to build from scratch rolling stock such as box cars, flat cars, gondolas etc...
How to old your own figures such as people, horses, cars etc...
Fine detailing - example how to make all of the stuff you find along side of a RR such as soda bottles, bits of boxes/trash, scraps of metal, retaing walls, abondoned concrete structures etc...
What articles would you like to see in MRR ?
Thanks and looking forward to your comments.
YGW