Good Afternoon,
we had a little rain today, and the temps went down to a comfortable 70 F. Could not go out much today, as I have somehow got an infection in my right foot. A painful affair!
Zoe, I´ll have a coffee and a slice of that strawberry cake, please.
My car is giving in on me. It seems, as if a major overhaul is necessary, but it won´t be worth it. Coming May, the car is up for inspection, and I am sure it will not pass. I need to figure out a way to sell it and get a newer and smaller one, that Petra can drive as well. She hates big cars and big cars with automatic transmission even more. No idea yet, how to resolve that issue without money.
Jeff - that steamer sure looks, as if it is heading towards the scrap yard - nice rust!
Todd - I find, that most "concrete" colors are way too dark and grayish in appearance. Try mixing a light cream color with some black (very little) and white, that did the job for me.
Have a good day!
Mronin' everyone!
Zoe, how 'bout an apple strudel to go along with my dark roast coffee in a FGLK mug? I'll go sit near the air conditioner. Sure need it today......!
Another beautiful sunny day here in the Finger Lakes. Current temperature is 88°F and predictions range from 89°F to 96°F depending on who you check it out with. Must be first week of Boy Scout Camp. These temperatures will get the younger staff worn to a frazzle by the end of this week, particularly if they haven't followed what we call Spinner's Law out there. Spinner (his camp name) has already spent 35 or so years at camp (in his other life he is a math teacher). He admonishes young staff to, "Go to sleep the same day you got up!" Of course they will ignore him for the first 5 or so years on staff and be Zombies by this Thursday morning....!
Todd, concrete is one of the hardest things to model. I use spray paint and several different colors. Usually use a primer for the base, and then add several light sprays of 2 or 3 lighter grays. The problem is that "concrete" is not A color. It is a group of colors all together..... I don't know if THAT makes any sense to you or not? The result is like the steps at "Fox Plumbing":
Ulrich, take care of that foot!!! At least you have almost a year to figure out what to do about the car....
I think today would be a good day to stay inside (We have 2 air quality warnings for the Finger Lakes - Ozone levels) and see what I can get done on the layout.
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
jeffrey-wimberlyYou mean like this? Sorry, couldn't resist, that was just too much of an engraved invitation.
You mean like this?
Sorry, couldn't resist, that was just too much of an engraved invitation.
Yup...just like THAT. I wondered if you'd think I'd lit the Bat Signal for ya....
TODD: On the roundhouse, I used Polly Scale "concrete," but wasn't impressed with it at all. I then went over it with their "aged concrete." I started to get a little happier with it. Then, I hit it with an ink wash...THAT I "blotted" or frantically dabbed at with a wad of paper towel to partially remove and blend in. Still not thrilled with it...but I can live it.
Gotta gotta do some stuff for THAT Editor today...
Have a safe one,
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Sir Madog Could not go out much today, as I have somehow got an infection in my right foot. A painful affair!
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If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer
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Hi again,
went to see my doc about that foot, now I am on Ibuprofen for the rest of the week. That stuff makes me all drowsy, so I will go to bed early.
Jeff - I had you and your foot issues on mind, so I went to see the doc to prevent things becoming worse. Thanks for your care!
Ray - my Merc needs that major overhaul now - it´ll cost about $ 2,000 - more than the car´s worth. I may get about that amount of money when I sell it the way it is, but that does not buy me a "new" one. Next year, it´ll go for scrap value, which is about $ 200 - so I need to act now. But how?
Todd - Ray is right, concrete is a dang difficult thing to model. I remember a video in the "build the Beer Line" series, dealing with the modeling of concrete roads- here is the link to this video. The roads did look pretty good to me!
Tomorrow, Germany will be playing Spain in the semi-finals of the Soccer World Cup - it´ll be a noisy night again.
See you all tomorrow!
Well....the heat index just hit 100 degrees here in good old Syracuse N.Y. I told my wife this morning it's a good thing I am already a "hot" guy and this heat will mean nothing to me. I bet Ray could here her laughing two counties away from me!! The dew point is in the 70's which puts the humidity factor at the "you can't breathe right" level. And this folks is just the start of a week long heat spell we are to have. Can't wait to get my electric bill...
A true friend will not bail you out of jail...he will be sitting next to you saying "that was friggin awesome dude!" Tim...Modeling the NYC...is there any other?
afternoon guys!
Thank God for air conditioning and that he blessed people with all the right thoughts, ideas, and will and man power to succeed at inventing it! Thank Him agian for making it possible for people like me to be able to afford it and have it at home and in the vehicle.
It's not so much the heat, but the humidity that bothers me more, though the heat alone can "sear" my lungs. It doesn't really feel too humid though, not like it does after it rains.
Speaking of Vehicles ULRICH- if you believe in God, then He will find a way to give you WHAT you need, WHEN you need it, JUST IN TIME. Even with no/little money, there will be a way for you to get a newer one or a way for you to get around easily somehow. someway, when you NEED it. I find that to be true in my life. It may not always be as much as I want, or exactly what I want, but is what I NEED. { I needed a new vehicle, BUT not a new Cadilac or even not necessarily a brand new one, for example, and SO the '06 KIA Sedona minivan came into my life in a way that I could afford on disability and with the other half only working part time.}. SO keep that in mind! He does answer prayers, you might not always like how He answers, or what he provides, but He will in His way in His time Just In Time for you! Even if you don't believe in God, but rather the theory of the universe providing what you need, when you need it, it will happen!
Went shopping today. Other half needed new shoes for work, and we both needed some shorts, so mission accomplished on both parts. BOy, though I could swear that some of the stores in the Mall don't belive in A/c for their customers comfort while shopping, though. I will definitely spend more time in a store that is nice and temperate cool for me, especially in heat liek this. I will get out of a store that has little/no A/c going real quick-like. I don't need to roast while I shop, and walking around sweaty is not my style. ANd why is it that all stores, some grossly more than others, think they have to pump "perfumed air" into the store/mall walkway? FOr athmatics like me, it is bothersome. ANd my nose itches for a day afterwards of shopping in hte mall, which is why I often avoid shopping htere.
Well, after a day out in heat and my back bothering me I think it's time for a little nap-py-poo wiht the putzes as we call them {***'s- aka cats}. With the A/C running of course.
ahve a great evening!
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Well, the hills have been roughed in, and I've already put in the sidewalks, but you can only see the hills in this pic (sorry for the quality, taken with a cell phone)
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Its HOT!!!!! Right now its about 91 degree's and the heat index is about 99 degrees. Tomorrow even hotter.
My package came in, and that will give me something to do. Not a bad deal on somethings.
Sawyer.....Your layout is coming along.
My goodies!!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
THAT's coming along nicely Sawyer. I assume the wide spot in the road with the curve going across the tracks next to the scenic remote is the main street? How will you treat the other end that runs into the hills?Those would of course be the Carolina pink hills, right? All ribbing aside, I wonder what the other plans are because I see a lot of potential there.
7PM and still 99F or so outside with the relative humidty making it feel a few degrees warmer. Off to the museum (at least that's air conditioned) to do battle with the iNvisible layout. Plus whatever else we need to do. Decided not to go to Mt. Tremblant as we have almost 70 cars registered for the test day at Monticello Friday and as chief of tech I should really be there to help. Plus that way I gain several days to try to catch up some more with the shop jobs. We now need to replace both turbos on the Datsun plus do a bunch of mods to the oil plumbing based on what we found today. THAT car leaves for Nashville the 14th (via Michigan on someone elses rig) so no rest for the weary. This heat really takes it out of you. At this rate, I'll be old and grey before I get to the new layout - oh wait, I'm already old and grey. So it goes. CUL,J.R.
Uh oh.
Bottom of page one. gotta fix that.
have a great night's sleep guys. YOu will need it to work on your layouts!
Bison meatloaf dinner, please.
***Todd, it's a bust, probably disorderly conduct.
***Sawyer, coming along nicely.
***Robby, good haul!
Wife & I went to the Docs today. Vampire nurse rolled my vein when she drew blood. No brownie points for her.
Then we hit the hobby store where we picked up some replacement couplers (for wife's circus cars), some tiny screws, slow drying glue (for completing sections of circus rides), and wife picked out a couple trees and WS people sets she had to have.
Hope everyone is doing well this evening.
Rob
Evening all,,, a barley pop please Zoe..
Been busy the last few weeks, but I did read some of the posts on patratism. I found this video on yahoo news this evening.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/austinkvue-tv-15750583/homeless-man-rescues-american-flag-during-storm-20738426
Maybe there's still some hope for us yet
Thoughts for all those in need, n catch ya'll laters
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Evening. Rhubarb cobbler please. And a dish of vanilla ice cream. Reeeal vanilla ice cream thank you.
Another productive day yet no MRR stuff done.
Jeff- Just had this absolutely hilarious vision run through my head about you spinning around to see what's going on after sucking up stuff from the front and turning around to see what you blew away from the back over and over again.Every time you move you either suck something up or blow something away! HA! LMAO!
Ulrich- Thanks, I'll add that mixture to my list. Take care of that foot. Yes the roads in the video look good, unfortunately not the look I'm wanting.
Ray- Yes that makes sense to me. That's precisely why I can't get it. Not knocking your stairs, they look like concrete to me, but the shade of concrete I'm going for is way lighter than that. I will try layering more.
Chris- Yeah I know. I have both those shades of concrete myself and the aged, if applied thinned with some white styrene showing works for some things but they don't look like concrete to me.
I have tried various grays and lightened with white a touch and they all seem to look like gray paint and not concrete. Ooo, a white wash, haven't tried that yet. So far the closest I've come is on rock faces when all I did was apply a black wash. But, when I tried this on the flat road surface.....phlbpphlbpt phlbt phlbpt.. Actually though, the only grey I haven't tried is gray primer. Why? I have no idea. I have a garage shelf full of it.
I know concrete comes in many shades and the sun affects the different mixtures differently. I have two very distinct shade on my driveway. I'm trying for the, well, I can't describe it shade. Almost white yet grey and kinda dirty. I'll stumble across it sometime and forget what I had used for the next.
Rob- Disorderly conduct eh? Welp, guess the rest is up to us gosspers at the diner.
Inch- good to hear from you. Yup there's still hope.
Been to the Mayan calendar end of the world thread yet? Funny.
Better get some rest before the end of the world. Never know they may be off a few years and I don't want to be tired for the big move.
Prayers for those in need.
Saaaaayy, hasn't the world ended like 5 or 6 times already?
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.
Evenin' folks!
Hmmm, Flo, the rhubarb cobbler with a scoop of vanilla ice cream sounds great to go along with my evening decaf. I'll go sit at the Rivet Counter for a while and talk about concrete with Todd for a bit.
Todd, you might try a base coat of a medium or light gray followed with a fine light spray of white with a touch of gray in it....... just a thought. Yep concrete comes in many, many different shades. new looks much different from old aged concrete as well. Concrete is a hard subject don't you think?
Yep Mouse is up to his old tricks.... I was laughing so hard at some of the answers in the calendar thread i could hardly catch my breath.
TMarshSaaaaayy, hasn't the world ended like 5 or 6 times already?
OK, which one of you was over here cleaning my work bench!?! I have spent most of the day trying to find a collection of HO scale lathes, saws, and other belt driven tools as well as the belt pulleys and stuff! Nowhere to be found. It came in the mail about 3 weeks ago along with the rail I have been using on the turnouts! I have looked all over the house and I am not happy! What? Yes I know it will be in the last place I look!
Oh well, I didn't want to get the workshop for the backwoods engine house finished........
[edit] And for my efforts I get the bill for late night snacks!
Have a good evening! (maybe I put the stuff over in the...........)
The world ending? I do my best to not think abt, cause even though I know it's bogus (the Bible says that no man can predict the time or date of the end. think it's in revelation) sometimes if I got too much time on my hands I'll start thinkin about it.
Thanks robby and rob!
JR-yes sir across the tracks is main street; I have the sidewalks in now, so all that's holding up progress there is paint. the road through the hills connects with another road that swings into the yard. As to the hills, they'll be covered in trees, but there will be some small rock cuts. I'm really looking forward to having the hills shaped up, then I'll slow down and take my time. I think soon I'll get some paint, then comes the plaster for the rock cuts, then trees, etc etc.
Good Evening Everyone,
Rob, I sure do like your 'Trailer Park Boys' scene. All you need now are Mr.Lehey and Randy with a BBQ doing up a few dozen burgers. It really adds character to your layout. That is something missing from mine. I need to create a few interesting scenes but what I just don't know.
Last night I was getting bored with TV so I worked a little more on my harbour and am now ready to pour the Realistic Water. I finally painted the harbour with a mixture of dark blue, dark and light gray, black and a little green. I think it turned our surprisingly well. Don't ask me the proportions I used as I just mixed in colours until I thought it looked OK. I installed the harbour walls today which are from a Kibri harbour kit. I think they look quite good.
As far as concrete goes, I agree, it is about the hardest colour to model. I used a concrete road paint from Woodland Scenics but find it isn't light enough. Their blacktop is good though. My harbour 'dock' is supposed to be concrete but I will need to put some sort of wash on it to lighten it up and make it less uniform.
Well I have to go into the office tomorrow as I have to do some Q2 reports that my boss presents to the Board of Directors. I should be able to get them done in the morning if I don't get involved in anything else which basically means I'll pretend I'm not there.
I'm still debating making that call to Trainworld. My wife said I should but we'll see. Do I really need another loco? and a different road to boot? I'd have to get a new caboose too.
CN Charlie
Couple burritos, please.
***CNCharlie, Ah ha, another Trailer Park Boys fan who understands the direction of my wife's trailer park. Funny you broguht up the BBQ. Guess what I ordered tonight? Yep, sure did...along with a swing set and the closest thing I could find to a go-cart (soap box derby car), which will be pulling a red wagon. Also ordered some additional cats for Bubbles "Kitty Love Land". Still need to put together the rest of his shopping carts.
Good night, y'all.
Well, as of 7 minutes past midnight on this 7th day of the 7th month I'm now 50 years old. Wow. I made it to half a century. About 46 years of that I've been a model railroader. It's been a LONG time since that Marx O-Scale train I got in 1964.
Happy Birthday, Jeff, and all the best wishes for the years to come, a little more health would be nice. Take care, buddy!
Good morning. Its going to be another hot one.
Off to do some body shop hunting this morning. We are working on a list of problems we have found on the car. So far we are up to 13 items. I would say out of the 13.........Five are major problems. Also the wife's b-day is tomorrow, and we will go out for the day.
Jeff......... Hope you have a good one!!
Sir Madog Happy Birthday, Jeff, and all the best wishes for the years to come, a little more health would be nice. Take care, buddy!
I agree with the sentiment here!! Jeff!!!!!
We are now in the 3H zone---heat haze and humidity---going up to 90F with barrels of humidity attached
Going to the LHS to pick up an order today---ended up getting a couple of grain silos for my HO scale diorama---that should finish it------heeheehee
Have a good one peoples!!!
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howmusOK, which one of you was over here cleaning my work bench!?! I have spent most of the day trying to find a collection of HO scale lathes, saws, and other belt driven tools as well as the belt pulleys and stuff! Nowhere to be found. It came in the mail about 3 weeks ago along with the rail I have been using on the turnouts! I have looked all over the house and I am not happy! What? Yes I know it will be in the last place I look!
I can hear some laughter over here----- Hey, if'n I can lose an entire kit here----and not be able to find it then------------but, again, I did leave some in the-------
First off, Jeffrey.... {multiply by 10 to get 50 of 'em}
Don't it feel good to be that old? to Know you've EARNED those 50 years??? That's how my other half looked at turning 50 last year, ANd I am looking forward to it in 3 years myself! After all, 50 is the "new 30".
Ordered the Rail Baron's Passes for Strasburg RR for next tuesday the 13th. for us and a rr fanatic steam loving friend of ours. HOORAY! ROAD TRIP! TRAIN RIDES! MY oh MY! Pinch me I'm dreaming!
Well, i got a few things to do today, so catch y'all later.
HAve a great fantastical day, especially YOU JEFFREY!
Jeff, Happy Birthday!
BM1 Lee Soule USCG (ret) L.S.&W Railroad Serving the Lower Great Lakes
Morning , Hey looks like you're fixin to have a party.
Jeffrey!!!!!! You are now o-fishully an old coot!!!
Coffee please and a couple of Strawberry pop tarts. Cold thank you. What? Seriously Zoe. I like PopTarts, and I prefer them cold. No it's not a joke..... Oh for Pete's sake what do you mean you don't.... you have everything! You don't have Pop Ta..... Thank you. No I don't suppose they ever go bad. Part of the charm.
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 91. South wind between 6 and 8 mph. Humidity, 98%
Ray- Yes , concrete makes my head hurt.(snicker). Actaully what I do is after I find what I'm looking for, I continue looking in a few more places just so it won't be the last place I looked. Doesn't make me feel quite so bad.
Charlie- A BBQ! Brilliant!! Like Rob, I too have a trailer park and a BBQ would be an excellent idea. Rob would have a more exciting BBQ what with the neighbors getting busted all the time.
She drinks a lot you know. Oh yeah and and gets real mean. He has to sell all her apples to pay the bills. Of course she swipes her Apples from Lee‘s apple orchard and as soon as he finds that out....., I guess crimes across State lines'll bring in the Feds or...., the ice cream truck. Either one.
Have a Great Day!!!
Italian roast coffee in a AT&SF mug, please.
***Jeffrey, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" and many more to come, preferably in improved health.
***Galaxy, we're the same age here as you and your wife. I need to make it to 50 to have any chance at finishing our RR empires, too.
Ordered one of these for the wife's "Breaking Bad" RV meth lab scene. She already has the forensics/hazmat crew for it.
Didn't get much sleep last night, but still plan on doing something mindless and easy in the train room later today.
Neighbor has started removing stumps with his big trackhoe in the future add-on section to the front pasture. We figure 2 days of work is about all we'll be able to hire him for presently. Hopefully he can get that area finished in that time.
Thanks all of you for the birthday wishes. I hope to be around to see 60.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF!