pcarrell How do all! Got a busy day today, but I thought I'd do a hit & run on you, so..............BAM! Later!
How do all!
Got a busy day today, but I thought I'd do a hit & run on you, so..............BAM!
Later!
Just as long as yhour credit card falls out when you hit.[ :D]
-Morgan
Hard job of the day so far. I just plugged a tire for my nephew. A whole 5 minutes. On the layout front I changed the color of a Volkswagen Beetle using a blue Sharpie and changed a 69 Camero from silver/black to all silver with a metallic Sharpie. I then used the metallic Sharpie to touch up some places on my SDP40F's where the silver paint rubbed off when the logos were being removed.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Hey All,
We are in the middle of a winter strom warning, well I know some of you will laugh the the amounts we have here of snow (from 3 in to 2 feet in some areas) but that's not the story, the East winds have picked up and that turns all of the snow onto ice in other words FREEZING RAIN!! SO WE ARE IN FOR A RIDE HERE FOLKS. Check out noaa.com type in Portland and you will see for yourselfs. Anyway there will be EXTRA time on the layout, barring we don't lose power I will talk to you guys soon.
----------Trainsrme1
55 right now here. Man, we went to a GREAT new church today called Southwind! Best part is that it's a non-denominational church.
Well, today I'm going to keep working on soldering the feeders to the rails and wiring the bus (I'm running DC, but going to wire it DCC for when I go to using DCC).
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
43 here, 32 with the wind chill, wind nne at 18 with gusts to 30. Kinda on the cool side with the wind coming right off the lake.
Man its cold and windy today!!
They are still calling for 1-3 inchs, but not till tonight. They keep moving the day on which it is suppose to snow. If it even snows at all.
Probably wont do much on the layout today. Maybe later (if then), well at least till after the Steelers beat up the Titans .
Everybody have a good day, and I will keep poping in.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Oh, now 'Spring', after fighting with one of his beanie birds, tossing it around like it was a football went over to his waterdish--which he hardly uses, rather drink from a cup in the sink---and is now dipping the bird into the water like it was a teabag! Drowning his prey---
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Goooooooooood Morning Coffee Lovers!
It is another beautiful day in the Finger Lakes. Weatherman says we will have 2" to 4" more "partly cloudy today with an additional 3" to 5" tonight and 3" to 5" more tomorrow. Looks like we will have a White Christmas.... "Just like the ones I used to know............" To add to the fun there will be high winds most of the time with gusts over 40 MPH to make sure the roads are impassable. The city has already been through, filling up the ends of peoples driveways with the white stuff. Unfortunately I have to be at Church this morning as I am Head Usher for the month. This morning is the Sunday School Christmas Pageant so High School Kids will be the Ushers. So I get to "herd cats" this morning. (Actually they will probably do better than most of the adults who usher..)
I best get the good duds on and head over and see if I can get a parking spot.....
See you later!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good morning peoples! We are expecting a high of -7C today and with winds coming from the west at 50-80kmh will give us a windchill of -27C with some snow and blowing snow. A good day for indoor sorts of activities.
Speaking of activities this one is going to actually see if what he suspects is going to work out---ie; is this mill going to fit in the area we proposed for it. If not I may have to do some fudging with the final model. eergh
Morgan – I’ve been real happy with the Microscale Krystal Klear. Those passengers I glued to the passenger station; I can glob the glue on up past their ankles and the next day the glue is “gone” and the person is still standing. It bonds in seconds but remains pliable for about 20 minutes. You can also use it to make windshields and windows by dragging the glue across an opening and letting it set overnight you get a hard transparent glass. Tie downs, cat tails, and gluing wires to telephone poles I like to use fingernail polish. If I ever want to remove the tie downs I can use an eye dropper of polish remover and reset the tie downs later. Cat tails I buy a cheap paint brush and cut the bristles off, then roll the bristle in finger nail polish until its built up enough to look like a cat tail.
Lee
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Good morning.It's 48°, cloudy and quite windy here by the lake this morning. We have winds between 15 - 25 mph bringing on a wind chill of 37°. I don't expect to see any rise in the temp as todays high should be around 48°. It will be partly cloudy.Well there wasn't much to yesterday. I watched one of my neighbors working on a sea wall and I helped my father move some cedar logs. Those things were pretty big. First time I'd seen cedar 2 feet across. Later I went to Lowe's and got some tools I needed and picked up some Sharpie's as well. I got two metallic and one each of red, blue, green and black, all with fine and ultra-fine tips.Today's Weather for:Sundown, LA 71446-6114 12/21/2008Wind Chill: 37°FHumidity: 69%Dew Point: 34°FSo Far TodayHigh: 61°FLow: 44°FRain: 0.00"Rain Rate: 0.00"/hGust: 26mph NNEImportant Message Lake wind advisory in effect until 6 PM cst this afternoon.Today High: 48 Partly cloudy. Breezy. Much cooler. Highs in the upper 40s. North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.Tonight Low: 28 Partly cloudy. Colder. Lows in the upper 20s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
Good morning,
My kids are heading down from Detroit today to meet in Toledo at my parents. Dorothy and I will be leaving Cleveland around 1100 to meet them.
West Winds (sustained 37mph) gusting to 55mph, wind chill -17F. Kids wanted to go to the lights before Christmas at the Toledo Zoo, not sure if we are going to do that considering the wind and air temp.
I picked up a new kit yesterday: Laser-Art #687 gas station www.branchline-trains.com looks like it will be a lot of fun and possible the last building I need for the layout until I start working on the port authority.
I also picked up lifelike HO-Boxcar load pallet boxes#433-1665 very impressive ever since Walthers took over Lifelike their quality has increased.
JimRCGMOMorgan, are those coaches heavyweights or the newer silver/aluminum ones? For your Christmas trees loads, you might be able to use thread or maybe even dental floss (dyed). Hope you have another good ‘raiding party’ at the other store. I'll be swinging by H-L today with their coupon and see what they might have for the MRR.
Well, the car styleses ore of the Stainless Steel Budd style, for the ITM train. The cars themselves all have the same body, but I have a chassis where the trucks attach to a flat peice of plastic with pegs on top (no idea what they snap into) and a molded underbody framework. the chassis fits under a lip inside the shell. Then I have another with the more traditional Athearn chassis with the high sides, but instead of running the screws through weights, they go through things that look like the foldingclasps in some portfolio/folders.
We came out with two more sets of trees from a different Jo-Ann, enough to do 5 cars. Then Dad found a bulk pack of multiple sized trees at K mart. So I see a pair of 50' flats with community-sized trees in our future.
As for tie-downs, we found a multi-colored embroidery thread almost approximating faded rope.
Tom: Love the kitty
Lee: try Proweld. made by Ambrose. I've been using it of my X-mas tie downs, melts the car, shove embroidaery thread in, let car "unmelt and sucjk thread in with the bonds.
Hello Diners.....
I'm wondering if anyone is here at all. Looks like a quiet night not just in the diner, but in the main forum, too. Where is everybody?
Tom..... I bet the 2-10-2 was a fun project. I would rather build a "close enough: model than get one already made to perfection. Fixing up basket cases is a fun part of the hobby, and I see little of that in the magazines.
This evening, Gus, Dan, and I took our respective wives to the bailt shop for dinner. Well, what can I say? We're in Rednecksville. Later, we worked on Gus's layout. One project was to allign the roundhouse with the turntable while getting al roundhouse track positioned correctly. That can be a fun chore.
I may have to sit in the corner booth by myself. ....Hmmmph.... is that Duke sleeping there? ..Duke!..Wake up!
We're checking wether forecasts, but we may be off to Cincinnati and Detroit for Christmas week.
Cheers!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
blownout cylinderJim; Yes, they are those one-time-only roaster things, except that these were cookie sheets that were flat---they didn't have all that ripple/bump stuff embossed. It is a thicker form of aluminum foil.
Kinda give it the patched look--I'm looking at one combine I have and suddenly it occured to me that those loops they used to hoist mailbags into the mailcars et al. could've gave quite a few gouges etc to the sides by those mail compartment doors--more weathering fun! heeheehee...
Thanks I will check it out. I tried to get them as close as possible, but still had the gap. As far as painting it, maybe I can use some spray paint. Kinda spray it from a distance. Oh, and of course it will have it used look
Lee; if it's the same stuff --formulation made by Plastruct--the one I have here is a PITA. You have to hold for 30seconds but it still doesn't take. I think somewhere I heard you had to make sure no greases or oils were on the pieces to be glued though.
Robby; Tamiya basic type Putty or Testors Contour Putty are the one's I use here.
Todd,
“Plastruct Weldene" is that the stuff in the clear jar, white metal lid with a brush attached?
If it is I hated it, it seemed to evaporate way before the plastic started to bond. Right now I'm using the Microscale Klear and "old faithful" testors in a tube.
Jim, my mistake if I said Plastistruct. I used Evergreen:
269-4100 V-Grove.040 thick, .100 spacing. I used a paper cutter to cut a deck 2" x 7" (HO-Scale = 14' x 51')
269-8408 Strip Styrene, HO-Scale 4x8, I cut 15 2" long strips and glued them on edge to the bottom of the platform.
The Strip Styrene running the length of the dock is 2/8" x 2/8" I don't know the decemal equevilant.
The legs are railroad ties 3/4" tall, I glued 34 of them to the bottom of the deck against the ribs for legs. If you have your siding on roadbed you will need to make these legs longer to be level with your box car floor or flat car deck. There are 15 legs per side and a total of 4 on each end.
The team track dock is extreamly ridged and seems like it could hold 3-4 pound of weight.
Next project will be to add a ramp to one end to allow forktruck access and the addition of a pillar crane.
Evenin’ all, bowl of chili please , cheese, raw onions and sour cream thank you. make it a big one.
Tom- beautiful cat. I couldn’t help but notice the temp though. I’ll be thinking of that tomorrow when our temps are about 9 with a wind chill of -15. Brrrr.
Hope they double up on the coffee after church tomorrow probably need the heat. We had our Christmas cookie walk/pancake and sausage breakfast/Bazaar today and we’ll get left-overs for fellowship tomorrow. Don’t need to eat breakfast.
Great pictures one and all.
Jim- I take it you are in the choir? Great! I wish ours sang more. We have trouble getting singers for more than just a few special services. Up until about 10 yrs ago we had one every Sunday, I miss that.
Robby- I agree with BC on the putty. I’ve used Testers in my model car days and it works, or did work, fine.
Since I’m on that subject I tried a new “glue” called “Plastruct Weldene”. Non-toxic it says. Don’t think I’ll try and drink it though. Has anybody used this stuff? Is it any good? It didn’t seem to grab the parts like Testers does. I thought I’d give a liquid a try to get away from the minor frustrations with tube glue. I like the way it wicks, I just don’t want my bridge flying apart on the trains maiden run some day.
Well guess I’ll wander around for a bit maybe check out some pictures.
Stay warm to all those who are in the cold and for those who aren’t, enjoy!
Will pray for those needy and in need tomorrow.
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Robby; I've used a putty that is put out by Tamiya that works rather well--there are other types of putty that,I guess, were made by Testors and any putty can be sanded, fine scale modellers use that stuff all the time. You can even paint the stuff too--just in case.
Jim; Yes, they are those one-time-only roaster things, except that these were cookie sheets that were flat---they didn't have all that ripple/bump stuff embossed. It is a thicker form of aluminum foil.
Robby, just to be sure, you are talking about the far part of the mountain (the dark grey side), rather than the brighter part that's nearer the camera, correct? If it's the grey part, yeah, it needs some Dullcoat on it, and then you can vary the colors a bit. But if you mean the near side of the tracks, that needs a lot more... So how cold are your weatherguessers saying it'll get for you tonight? If you don't have much cloud cover after the snow drops, it could get really cold, I'm sure.
I'm gonna head for home - want to get some actual MRR'ing work done, and I got reminded that my automatic scheduled backup wants to be connected to the external drive before it will start that. Plus, I have to get my shower and hair done tonight, since if it's gonna be 8 F by morning, I definitely don't want any wet hair when I step outside.
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Okay, OKAY - I'll share the train cookies! I was just kidding... Thought they were all gonna lynch me for the cookies, Flo. Man, this crew of chowhounds gets serious about their food, huh?
jeffrey-wimberlyOh come on Jim, live a little. I have a 2-10-2 that takes my 18" radius curves and #4 turnouts like it was made for them.
BC - Ohhhhh... , doing that all from one corrugated styrene sheet would be much more sensible (and less expensive). Are those cookie sheets you're using, like the one-time-use roasting pans you can buy? I never noticed that kind of cookie sheets before; I may need to look more closely next time I'm at the store...
Oh, Lee - I went by the LHS today to see if they had that V-groove, since they have some Plastruct sheets. Nope - so I may have to order some of those, unless after I go through my scratchbuilding supplies tub tonight, I find some V-groove there. The LHS in town here appears to be not getting much in the way of train stuff over the past couple/three months, though. I was looking for model paints, and found out that they sold what they did have to a new LHS opening in Farmington (about an hour northwest of Cape). The way the co-owners (Mom & Pop type LHS here in Cape) talked about selling off their model paints (which were more Testor's and such - for plastic airplane/military models, rather than Floquil or Polly S), it sounded like they're not going to be getting in much MRR'ing stuff at all. I think most of what they have had the past few months, they got from a wholesaler in St. Louis (and maybe he got it from overstocks or closeout stocks from closing LHSes). Hobby Lobby has more useful stuff than the in-town LHS. And our MRR club member/LHS-down-the-road owner is willing to order about anything that Walthers or Horizon stocks, at a discount for MRR club members!
Didn't intend that to sound like a , but I think it might have sounded that way. My apologies.
Did you Diners see that Walthers has their modular sets/stuff on sale? Most of their HO ones are on sale at about $3.98 each, and their N scale ones are on sale too. I'm getting several of the HO ones (my LHS owner/MRR club member will have to order 3 or 4 of the ones he doesn't have in stock already; he keeps some of his stock at home, in addition to his storefront location). If you have any industries you are hankerin' to build/'kitbash' - like background structures - this could make it quite a bit more affordable. But (as the ads say) "Buy responsibly"
Well I will just have some hot cocoa for now. Pretty cold night.
Well they are still calling for 1-3 inchs tonight. Cold tomorrow night.
Ok guys got a question. I went out and bought the last Medusa Cement plant around town. I started to put the bottom together, but it has some pretty gaps on it. What kind of stuff do you use that is sandable for plastic? I was looking to fill the gaps in, and sand it. So I will probably have to repaint the whole bottom half. I haven't put the top together, until I get the bottom done. I am looking for something rather easy to use, and easy to sand.
Jim, heres a shot of the mountain. You were asking if I was going to use some kind of rock cropping. Heres what it looks like, with out it. Its kinda shiny due to hairspray. I need to dull it down.
JimRCGMO fitting one of those fire-breathing dragons on my rather smallish curves might take a lot of doing... So, I'll settle for getting a Mikado to go with my Mogul, my 0-6-0 saddle tanker switcher, and my Shay.
refill, please & thanks.
***Jeffrey, please check your e-mail. Thanks!
***Ray, now your just trying to kill me off with sugar overdoes. Oh and, here's my plate.
***Sue, my sister lived off of Independence RD S.W. until moving further south. My Dad lives out the other direction from town and other side of the freeway.
***Tom, that is one Handsome Cat.
Finished critter rounds and waiting for those thunderstorms to arrive.
Rob
Good evening fellow cooks, bakers and eaters...
We had no trouble with doughnuts or ditchdiving, although a few did up here. I have one of those mid 90's Audi Quattro types that don't do that kind of things--much
Well from the looks of things what with Audrey doing Egg Nog Cookies., the train goodies and my 5chocolate brownies getting made up---and my sister coming down with her maple fudge pieces + whatever Flo throws in here we all won't be having to worry about goodies shortages unless of course we all go nuts at once, heeheehee
All together now----
Jim; The corrugations come via a styrene clapboard sheet. I rub into the sheet and Voila! corrugations!