Oh gotcha. My simple approach wouldn't apply in that case.
The real problem is my modeling space shares the same shed as my tool/ materials. And since we're building our house, barn,garden beds, solar panel power room, the tools get piled up wherever we're working.
I have 5 dremels, but there scattered all over the property, or buried in with all the other tools.
I just gotta remember where I used them last.
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Nice projects ya got going there, Timmy.
It sounds like a good time to stop and regroup. When my shop gets to the point that I cant find a tool I know I have, I grab 4 boxes and pick up everything on the benches and rather quickly put things in them:
1, the biggest, is for tools including glues, 2, all building materials,
3 hardware, 4 project parts.
It quickly clears the benches to sweep and dust. Then i work each box at a time sorting an putting away. Doing the separate boxes really speeds up the work. Just something that works for me, and the missing tool or accessory shows up.
I hope I didnt go off topic, but maybe it'll get you back into a more productive place. Dan
Dan, Your 4-4-0 reminds me an old fav 50s Disney movie, 'The Great Locomotive Chase.'
Thanks Simon, Likin' your Aerotrain, gotta' be a load of fun running a replica of a train that looked so space-age and futuristic with classic GM styling.
Pike-62, Bet some extra boxcar loads of beer went down today.
Little Timmy, Good to see ya' toughin' it out, keepin' the WPF and your hobby time rollin'.
Thanks to all the contributors and viewers. Have a good week ahead. Regards, Peter
so now that the web site deleted my post, and self edited my repost, I will try this once again.
I had to give up ( temporarily) on my boxcar grabiron hole drilling . I just cant hold onto my pinvice for that many holes ( only 456 of em )
My shop is a disaster and I just cannot find the right chuck / collet for my Dremel.
so I switched to my flatcar assembly line.
Two started, the rest are on their way.
I also got the Kaydee wheelsets installed, and the first rust wash applyed to the trucks.
Gonna hit em again with a Black wash here in a few minutes.
As I was searching ( madly slinging junk around) my shop, I came across this long forgotten project.
Gotta figure out a way to get this back on the workbench.
Great stuff so far. Peter, I am always amazed by the colors of your brickwork. Bear, noir et blanc is definitely my era! Dan, I like what you did with the Jupiter.
It's totally spring weather here in Eastern Canada. Good inspiration to get my small sports car out for a spin on the layout :
IMG_20240207_203113 on Flickr
Simon
My archives don't run real deep, but heres a heavily reworked Bachmann "Jupiter".
Dan
Thanks Bear, could use some 70s around here.
Dan, Those trailers are going to look real good behind those Peterbilts. Just finished up making a woodchip load for a railcar using a piece of florist foam and saw dust.
Pleased to see Downtown Deco's Syzdek Mfg. build featured in the current issue of MRR mag. A fun kit I enjoyed building for a fellow hobbyist's layout. Spruced it up with a cornice, fire escape, downspout & plumbing, also added more depth by randomly painting some individual bricks.
Thanks & regards, Peter
Thanks for starting us off, Peter. I think I hear a lone trumpet playing softly somewhere.
Bear, also a nice late night hour scene.
I've been working hard on the woodchip truck fleet.
Pain in the rear X 8:
I don't know how that top picture got flipped 90 deg, I had 'em horizontal.
I have the special gift of discovering every way possible to mess up and destroy hard to get model building commodities. In the process, I destroyed enough to make 2 more trailers, but since the original plan only called for 3, I'll call it good.
Keep 'em coming!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Keep those Model Railroading photos coming.
Reaching into the archives with a little noir, 'Bogie & Bacall'
Have a Super weekend. Regards, Peter