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Now thats a SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET 'Stang. I think it would look good, if you did a small burnout and a cop pulling up. Hey, I've been there before in a mustang
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Phil, nice, real nice!
Marlon
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Jeffrey, Hot Wheels?
Don't you know the wheels are a scale 2" too big?
lvanhenDon't you know the wheels are a scale 2" too big?
Robby P.Now thats a SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET 'Stang. I think it would look good, if you did a small burnout and a cop pulling up. Hey, I've been there before in a mustang
There's a Louisiana State Police car just out of frame. The stang driver is minding his P's and Q's.
jeffrey-wimberly
Is the Red car 1:87 scale? Its hard to tell in the picture but it looks right.
DrilineIs the Red car 1:87 scale? Its hard to tell in the picture but it looks right.
Great photos Jeffery! Like the mustang.
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Jeff love the mustang. For all those that question the scale of the wheels have you looked at rims lately. This is what is called the DUB edition rims.
Any way I finished up the brass sd-7 runs real smooth now. I also put a decoder in my altas rs-1. I also built the revell big boy, still finishing it up.
Bought the athern hustler and dropped in ernst gears for it. Not as easy as drop of course but it really runs sweet now. It runs real slow. I stripped the paint on it and it will get a z size digitrax decoder. I will try to light it as well. Depends on the room left over. I also bought the ahm plymoth diesel which I stripped down and got running real sweet as well. I might take the original motor out and replace it with a smaller can motor and put a decoder and lights in it. Now the question is do the hustler made by athern and the ahm plymoth actual engines or something made up by the manufactures. I searched the web and have not really found anything. Any help would be great so I can weather them properly.
Thanks
Mike
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
Medina, I love the way you have the background in the photobucket link. What did you use to do that?
Springfield PA
Wow! WPF on page two on a Saturday! I know I'm not a good photo contributor here, but WPF on page two on Saturday? This is my son's favorite regular feature on the forums. He loves all YOUR trains almost as much as mine and his own. The other son is busy sweeping up his toys right now. They swap places later and I have to go through all the train pictures a second time for him.
wm3798Everything I know about Minnesota I learned by watching Fargo...
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Jeff, for the record, Hot Wheels and Match Box cars are typically closer to 1:64, or S scale. That mid 50's jalopy next to the station should dwarf a modern Mustang.
But recognizing that you're in it for the fun, I'll concede that you can get "close" with those cars, and you certainly can't beat the price or availability. In my younger days fooling with HO, there were quite a few Hot Wheels, Match Boxes, and even the occasional Johnny Lightning.
In N scale we had a similar problem a few years ago, when you could get Micro Machines for a dime a dozen, although they were closer to 1:144 than 1:160.
You can see that the wheel base on the Chevy Bel Air is almost the same as the 1:160 straight truck, and the wheels are about the same diameter... The larger vehicles can work when you're doing "forced perspective" by placing them in the foreground of a scene.
The trick is not to mix them in the same scene or in the same relative position to the camera angle.
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Hello everyone..
I ran the CZ yesterday ...........
Also, my good old Bowser 4-8-4 emerged from the roundhouse, and runs just fine.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Garry---
Ooooh, that BOWSER 4-8-4! Yummy! Tell me, did you run out of cars to put behind it before it stalled? Those babies have been known to move actual HOUSES, LOL!
Gorgeous!
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Tom ... Thanks! .... Actually, my muscle loco is my Bowser Pennsy T-1. With two motors and 5 pounds of weight, it will pull down the house. Of course, the Northern is quite a hauler, too!
Driline jeffrey-wimberly Is the Red car 1:87 scale? Its hard to tell in the picture but it looks right.
The Mustangs 1/87 too. (I've got one) Hot Wheels has a whole line of 1/87 cars out now. Mostly super sports cars and a VW bug. They have a cool 1/87 Mach 5 too!
Not quite up to the stellar standard some of you other guys set, but here is my little project for this weekend - a scratchbuilt Mississippi coal barge for the municipal Barge terminal on my layout.
It is 4" wide and 12" long - about 30 x 90 H0 scale feet. I know that a modern coal barge is about 200 feet long and 35 feet wide, but this is supposed to be 1957, and 4x12 inches visually seemed not too horribly compressed.
Built from 0.40" sheet styrene, some foam from an old matress to flesh out the piles without adding too much weight, black ballast glued into the bin over the foam to look like coal, and the thingies to fasten ropes to (I know that the shoreside equivalent is called a bollard - but couldn't locate "barge terms for dummies" using google to find out what the boatside equivalent is called) is made from sprue leftovers.
It is my first attempt at scratch building any kind of boat, and it still needs a bit of TLC - sanding down the edges a little, painting it black and weathering it.
That will have to wait until next week sometime - we are celebrating Thanksgiving her with the extended family on Sunday Nov 23rds (I know it is really Thursdag Nov 27th - but that is not a holiday over here in Norway, so we do it the weekend before or the weekend after). So Sunday will not be part of the model RR weekend for me.
Smile, Stein
Robby P. OUTSTANDING WORK THIS WEEK. Great shots everybody. Heres the latest on my engine. I weathered it, and added some details. Snow plow, ditch lights, MU cables, and a GPS system. Before: After:
OUTSTANDING WORK THIS WEEK. Great shots everybody.
Heres the latest on my engine. I weathered it, and added some details. Snow plow, ditch lights, MU cables, and a GPS system.
Before:
After:
Excellent fade!
"Being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses"
EXPERIMENTATION TO BRING INNOVATION
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wm3798Jeff, for the record, Hot Wheels and Match Box cars are typically closer to 1:64, or S scale. That mid 50's jalopy next to the station should dwarf a modern Mustang.But recognizing that you're in it for the fun, I'll concede that you can get "close" with those cars, and you certainly can't beat the price or availability. In my younger days fooling with HO, there were quite a few Hot Wheels, Match Boxes, and even the occasional Johnny Lightning.
I didn't know that Hot Wheels was making a 1:87 line... I've been out of the HO racket for about 30 years!
Well, I took these pics last night w/ a dying camera (sorry about the quality, had to rush). So here's some highlights of what I got for my b-day.
First, my new U23B compared to my GP30 I've had (GP35 is down for paint, that's why it's the GP30. they're both pretty much the same length). I've nicknamed my U23B The BEAST!!! This thing is huge. It outweighs my other locos too.
One of my favorite boxcars that I got:
Also finally moved up from my bachmann trainset powerpacks to an MRC Tech 4, the 220 model. This thing is AWESOME, I love it.
I had a great birthday yesterday and got a lot of great stuff, here's the whole photo album:
http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh55/Packers_1/b%20day%2008/
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Love the Northern & the CZ Garry!
Nice work there Stein. I've been thinking about a barge as well. Do you happen to know of any kit or such for pushing them?
What the heck, I'll post up my beat up old dio. That thing as been moved about 20 times now, stored in freezing to 100 degree storage unit, stuff falling off. But hey, it is under the new lights in the train room....
Loco Nice work there Stein. I've been thinking about a barge as well. Do you happen to know of any kit or such for pushing them?
For a tow boat ? (which is not towing the barges - it pushes them. But a collection of barges lashed together is known as a "tow").
Diesel tow boat that seems appropriate from the 1970s e.g. here:http://www.cmrtrain.com/towboat.html
Prototype photo of 1950 stern wheel steamer: http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=102086
Hasn't noticed anyone offering those stern wheel steamers as a H0 model kits yet, but hasn't been looking for one either - I plan to just model the barge part, not the tow boat.
Edit 11/25: had a quick look around. You can get plans of sternwheel paddleboat tow boats from various sites and scratchbuild one. E.g. http://modelplans.steamboats.org/p13-ward-diesel-towboats.html
The smallest kind of sternwheel paddleboat on these plans is about 90' long and 26 feet wide and 2 1/2 "stories" tall above the water line - call it about 18-20 feet tall, ie in H0 scale about 12" long, 3.5" wide and 2.75" tall, and in N scale about 6 1/2" long, 2" wide and 1.5"- entirely practical sizes for a scratchbuilt model railroad layout.
Smile,Stein
Great stuff again this week guys. I think I'm out of my league, but I'll post a couple photos anyway.
NYC GP7 #5809 hauls a short mixed train (per Walther's latest update) around the curve at the Black River Valley COOP.
Yours truly and almost 3-year-old Nathan watching a Lots And Lots Of Trains video. He pays close attention when the steamers are on, but doesn't seem to think much of diesels. A model railroader in the making, I think!
Sorry about the touch of 'red-eye' couldn't get rid of it for some reason.
Keep up the good work guys, you are always inspiring.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Thomas and Friends have painted Diesels as being EVIL so it's no wonder the kids like steamies.
Allan, all the photos this week have been fabulous, but for me your second photo there just took it all! What a wonderful moment.