AmanaMedic But wait! It gets even better! I'm also trying to apply end numbers to an orange and black Far-Mar-Co hopper (McKean ACF 4650 cu ft. CenterFlo). ODDBALLS did a nice job, as usual on the decals. But...it is just so, so, soooooooooo very much fun trying to SEE the itty-bitty, teeny-tiny WHITE numbers on the pale decal sheet. I remembered seeing a trick of taking a marker to the back side of the decal sheet. Nope, did absolutely nothing. But, one end is now (finally) correctly lettered and numbered for WCDX 7428. I think I can snag some end data from a Microscale BN hoppers set I've got, should be "close enough."
But wait! It gets even better! I'm also trying to apply end numbers to an orange and black Far-Mar-Co hopper (McKean ACF 4650 cu ft. CenterFlo). ODDBALLS did a nice job, as usual on the decals. But...it is just so, so, soooooooooo very much fun trying to SEE the itty-bitty, teeny-tiny WHITE numbers on the pale decal sheet. I remembered seeing a trick of taking a marker to the back side of the decal sheet. Nope, did absolutely nothing. But, one end is now (finally) correctly lettered and numbered for WCDX 7428. I think I can snag some end data from a Microscale BN hoppers set I've got, should be "close enough."
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
"Next time scan the decal sheet and bring the scan copy up in MSPaint and invert the colors..."
Thanks JEFF!
I'm gonna have a seat at the RC...and twitch for awhile... I just discovered I neglected to order a set of sand filler hatches for the CNW 4422 project. Guess what's in the cart for the next order from Big "W"???
Chris
The Cedar cRapids Industrial Branch: Proudly Shipping Yesterday's CrunchBerries Tomorrow!
Chris:
Ah, I really FEEL for you buddy! I was replacing the 'gonna-break-first-time-you-run-me' plastic couplers on my new MTH "Daylight" (can I say MTH around here, LOL?) cars with Kadee 'whiskers', and lo and behold, several of those little bitty wire drawbar lifts went flying into Outer Space. I didn't even know they were THERE, they were so 'invisible'. I'm just hoping that nobody comes around the layout with a Telescopic Lens while I'm running it (he said, blushing)!
As to decalling with those little bitty but essential 'detail' lettering, I've finally gotten to the point (with my 71 year old eyesight) that when decalling a new steamer, I ask myself "Is anyone really going to MISS all the Classification data on the side of the cab?" But like you, the protyper in me takes over, and next thing I know I'm using a Magnifier to try and find the little dears on the decal sheet.
Ain't it fun?
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!
OH BOI I love fireworks stands at a church! $69 and I'm STILL not done I'm going to get some of my favorite fireworks at Millbrook tomorrow
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
SAWYER, How can you ??
All that model railroad money going up in SMOKE,
or are you trying to impress a young lady ??
There has to be an ulterior motive.............
Johnboy out................................... and waiting for the smoke to clear
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Hiya TOM, sorry I've been negligent in welcoming you back! Very GLAD you are still with us!!
Ah yes...just sooooooooooo much fun. After a little time away, I decided to put just a few more parts on: spare knuckle holders (went on fine...almost...too easily), and the two front grab irons. Well (toad from yesterday missing, neighbor's cat looking ill), I snapped off another #79 bit. Seems Walthers put two screw posts where Athearn never has.... I get the holes drilled, go to put the little tiny grab irons in place. Hmmmmmmmmm. One side won't, oh yeah, the screw post....heh heh heh. So I gets THAT situmacation rectified...the grabs are on. Now I'm trying to get the funky plastic front handrail THAT wouldn't totally come off, and has been in the way of almost every step of this project so far, back on like it should be...
One "good" thing so far: Walthers (Trainline, Trainman, something like THAT) had it originally painted a weird dark orange-yellow ('sposed to be CNW yellow....*buzzzzzzzzzzzz* wrong/fail). I had painted over it with a CNW Zito yellow. Both stripped off nicely revealing the original...Zito-yellowish plastic! A few light coats of Testors 1112 Light Yellow should do the trick nicely!
Ya gotta take the little victories when you find 'em...
Afternoon, Janie - I'll have a chili dog with some grated cheddar on top, and a RBF to wash it down with. (Okay, everybody - in about 30 minutes, ya better open those windows to let things 'air out'!) Thanks.
Yeah, Chris, that head injury explains your sense of humor, all right. While I didn't have quite as... interesting! of art professors as you and Rob appear to have had, they weren't super-impressive. Like the time I was taking a test in one art class (yeah, we had tests in art class, no joke), and the class was held in a room with one end had those desks with the countertops that reminded me of chemistry class - thick, black, with a hole with a sink every so often across the length - and I had my 35 mm. camera sitting NEXT to me on the countertop. The instructor (not sure I'd call him a professor...) picks up my camera lifts it to his eye and I hear "click!". I turned to him and said "Hey! - Why'd you do that?" He responds with "You shouldn't leave it out" (or something equally of the "might makes right, and I'm the instructor" kind of thought pattern). My best professor was the one I had for watercolor painting (at which my skill level would be like yours with trees or organic stuff - never could do that well without having the colors bleed further than I wanted to) had better sense, but he was older than some of the rest of them when I was there. He had done a series of watercolors of Missouri mills that was included, with a history professor's description of the role water-powered mills played in Missouri.
Galaxy - for a guy loopy with Percocet, you're funny! (No offense meant, by the way) Hope the dentist gets everything finished up, capped, cleaned up and whatever else he needs to do for you in just the next trip (unless he hasn't done the root canal - doubt that you want to rush him on getting THAT one done in record time! Have you had any new 'leads' on the 'new' (to you and YOH) house, or have things tapered away until later in the summer?
Speaking of the Fourth (we were speaking about the holiday just a bit ago, right?), had a combination of events this morning at church, between the two services (I decided to get a cup of coffee and those little chocholate donuts the cafe has...). One teen who I know was talking about his firew**ks activities (putting a set of those firecrackers-on-a-string into a PVC pipe and lighting it up, holding a Roman candle while it went off - he said about the third 'poof', it kinda exploded in his hand - etc.). Then I ran into (not literally...) a nurse I see who w**ks in the ER where I get called at times for assessments. She was on last night's shift, and decided she'd better just stay up and go to early service rather than try to lay down for some and maybe sleep through late service. She said she was off w**k today, but would be on for the Fourth - and dreaded it. I told her about some of the teen's activities and she pretty much shivered/shook her head. (Teen Diners! - DO NOT TRY ANY OF THAT TEEN"S ACTIVITIES AT HOME (or elsewhere, for that matter)!) The nurse said that she's already seen some firew**ks injuries coming into the ER the past couple of days.
Lee, you beat me to it with your question about Falco (well, maybe I'm fuzzy about most of the groups in the 1980's; I think I wasn't that interested, or I was busy with other stuff in that decade, perhaps (no, nothing like any of those art teachers you Diners mentioned - sheesh!).
Garry, you asked about my MRR'ing progress - not a lot. I have been updating a database I have of my MRR'ing stuff (not a full inventory, but...). I also pulled a bunch of vehicles that I'd moved off the layout to a bookshelf or two (across the aisle from it - the books that were on the shelves got moved into a stack elsewhere in the apartment, and really need to go back on the shelves) off today and got them back into their little boxes/packaging and back into the 'vehicles' tub. Also corrected some mistakes in the inventory, including what & how many turnouts I have. As some of you have mentioned, got to clear off all the other stuff (both from the layout, and also from my 'auxiliary' area) before getting to actual w**k on the layout itself. I'll get there someday, I think...
Oh, Chris - you had asked if I'd got the water tower to strip its own paint. Nope, but I got enough of the paint stripped and have repainted it silver. Too clean and shiny at the moment, so I'll need to do some weathering and also letter it for whichever town/city on my RR it will appear in. Hope to have photos later in this week of it, and the firehouse. Hey, keep telling yourself - "Don't sweat the small stuff" (wherever IT sailed off to) I'll keep an eye out for your sanity and your mind if I see them...
And Jeff, I'd agree with Chris on your 'Combo Geep' - it looks just like any ol' cheap struggling RR (like the protolanced ones I and some other Diners model) would do! A RR's gotta do what they can with the parts they have in the shop - budgets are limited for the smaller railways, right?
Barry, now THAT's some shovel there!
Ulrich, how many pics of your MRR'ing did I miss in the last coupla weeks of the June Diner? It's good that you and Petra were able to convince your Dad about the change of residence. After reading some of your tales of getting parents to accept assisted living, I'm reminded that even though when my parents (and my grandmother - my grandfather just had a stroke and was gone before he hit the bathroom floor, from what the EMT's told Grandma) went downhill, they went fairly soon, so I was spared those decisions.
Well (now the new home for that Alabama gator and her youngun's who earlier had survived that forest fire, in a mudhole), our weather here today has been hot (currently 92 F/33 C) and clouding over - kinda like one of Barry's 'dull' days, and getting greyer. I think we may be expecting some possibility of rain tonight and maybe tomorrow morning. Not sure if the firew**ks displays tomorrow night will get rained out or not yet.
Okay, I'm visualizing the story tomorrow from Sawyer's neck o' the woods:... "TEEN BLOWS UP SELF AND HALF THE TOWN!! FILM AT 11!!" Take care there, grasshopper!
Chris, let me buy you a or two (or three...). It sounds like this has been one of THOSE days, buddy!
(Many) Prayers - for safety with pyrotechnics, a good night's sleep, return of sanity and ending of mouth/other pain, a safe place to hide out tomorrow, and some good ol' peace and quiet once the holiday's over and done (say, about mid-September?).
Blessings and prayers,
Jim in Cape G.
Evening all,
Flo I would like a BLT and a unsweetened ice tea please.
Spent the day putting in Tortoise's. Got 14 put in today. I have 10 more to go along with a turnout. I had to increase a hole from underneath for one. Well I completely forgot what I believe was posted here about sliding something under the turnout. Oh well I guess I will be buying a turnout Saturday at the train show. I figure 1-2 weeks and I will be ready to start fine tuning track before scenery. It's pretty exciting to flip a switch on the control panel and have a turnout move- for me anyway..
I w**k tomorrow so I hope everyone has a great 4th of July. Eat plenty of BBQ.
Prayers for all those in need.
Curt Webb
The Late Great Pennsylvania Railroad
http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j372/curtwbb/
Good Evening..
It seems I wasn't the only one losing bits and pieces of things...I lost an entire wall to a boxcar today..actually the entire end wall has vanished......I put it down on the worktable and it plain ol' went POOF!!! on me.......then, to top off the whole stupid scenario, my needlenose pliers went into a black hole
So far,I have replaced all couplers and trucks as well as placed grab irons on all the locos I have...oh...plus the stupid...note how I blame the inanimate objects for my looniness here ...rings...and all the MU hoses....sigh.
Chris: I, too, would like to find my mind right now...I think my mind went south on me...
Chloe, can you get me a big burger platter as well as a giant tub of RBF please?...I'll be sitting at the RC moping into my cup here...
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/
Coffee in a SUNNY & SOUTHERN mug, please.
Rob
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
wetidlerjr
Oh NO! It's not even morning now!!! WIthTHAT under his belt I may just beat wetidlerjr at GOOD MORNING tomorrow as he sleeps it off!!
-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.
Evenin' folks!
Flo I'll have a stein of the dark stuff on the left......
Had a fun day at the museum. Steady stream of visitors, but not a whole lot at once. I figured we would be busier but.......
Been catching up with all the posts I missed today.
Ulrich, I do hope your parents make good on their decision to go into Assisted Living. The one around here are excellent and and provide a lot of needed support for the people and they still can have a lot of freedom.
Hope all of you who will be setting off explosives tonight and tomorrow stay safe and don't lose any limbs in the carrying out of the noise making stuff. To quote an old axiom... (puts on best Duetch accent...) Vee grrrrow too soon ald, und too late schmart! Or something like THAT....
Have to make one of my potato salads tonight, so I will cut this short.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
In the spirit of wetidlerjr's offering:
Here's your Holiday TIp:
Don't go forth on the fourth with a fifth, or you may not go forth on the fifth!
{at least not very well anyway}
Pass one of them pitchers over here.
Now Galaxy, the proper toast is: The best way to celebrate the 4th. is by buying a 5th. on the 3rd........
I won't be drinking or driving on the 4th cause I want to be around on the 7th for my 51st.
Hello Fellow Dinners!
Flo, I will take another Monon Special and pleases.
Thank Goodness it stormed today! It was hotter today than a Blown Hemi Charger today. Temps is down to around 70 degrees and the A/C is getting a break.
Work Front Just as I feared, another slow day. 3 customers and 2 bought. Only possible savings grace to this month is there are 5 paycheck. Unless things turn around real quick and for the last 8 weeks now there is no sighs it is going to.
Bright side, yep you guessed it. Plenty of time to play guitar.
T White Tom, do you know how to read TAP for guitar? I have found plenty of sites that have Tap for songs, but yet found one that explained how to read the music so i understand it.
Nat Wars! Well I am losing big time! I see Nat's every where staring at me with there Little Nat Bug Eyes. Not counting the ones that are flying around my faces Sticking There Little Bug Tongues out of me! I have Nat's on the Fan, Nat's on the power cables going to the train layout, Nat's on the computer, Nat's on my E 6's, heck I counted 20 Nat's on the Fax Machine!
I have removed all old beer can outside, and but the fresh emptiness go outside. I have a bowel with Vinegar and Dish Soap with plastic starched across the top with holes poked it the plastic. Not sure why the instruction said to add the soap, unless the Nat's want to take a bath. Few have made it in through the holes, but most of the Nat's are just sitting on the out side going "Boy This Smells Good".
I hit Lowe's Monday and see what they have that might kill the little BUGGERS.
Well, time to run the trains again.
Best wishes and for you and your love ones.
Ken
I hate Rust
Johnboy, I've got myself on a monthly RR budget, so it's not model rr money gone up in smoke...and the girl I'm interested in lives on the other side of town lol
Jim, awh, it ain't THAT much firepower......just maybe a block or two
Curt, those switch machines sound fun...I've used ground throws myself
Cudaken, gnats SUCKKKKKKKKKKK, but try skeeters on for size
Ken, if you mean TAB (short for tablature), It's like chord charts, but turned sideways, like this:
1) ----------|---------|---------|---------| (top E string)
2) ----------|---------|---------|---------| (2nd, B string)
3) ----------|---------|---------|---------| (3rd, G string)
4) ----------|---------|---------|---------| (4th, D string)
5) ----------|---------|---------|---------| (5th, A string)
6) ----------|---------|---------|---------| (bottom E string)
Where there are vertical marks (like the lines that - I hope - are above), those usually indicate measures, like for the above, it would be four measures shown. There's an explanation with (better) pictures here:
http://www.endprod.com/tab/
Hope that helps you, Ken.
Now, if Bill T. had offered a nice Finger Lakes wine, I'd take a glass of that. (Never got used to the taste of beer, unless I had a lot of pretzels with it...)
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Someday I'll show you how to mix the lemonade, pepper juice and Tabasco so you don't burn your tongue off. You know you're just a redneck at heart. A real smart one but a redneck nonetheless.
Janie just a nice glass of some Finger Lakes Reisling for me. Possibly one of the Glenora Winery ones.
Ooooo, Did I hear Redneck.... Time for some good old Redneck advise and since wine and other spirits have been brought up.... "When decanting wine, make sure that you tilt the paper cup, and pour slowly so as not to bruise the fruit of the wine. If drinking directly from the bottle, always hold it with your fingers covering the label."
Potatoes are cooking.....
Evenin' again...
Potatoes are are drained and cooling in a colander at the moment. I cooked up about 4 lbs. of white potatoes to fork tender. They will cool just enough that I can handle them when I cut them up for the salad. I now have half a dozen large eggs boiling on the stove. Already cut up onion and celery, about a rounded cup of each and have them ready to add to the cut up potatoes in a few minutes. If I had some fresh garden radishes, I would cut them fine and add them as well. May put some chives on top as a garnish tomorrow before I take it over to my son's house.
Ray:
OHMYGAW that potato salad sounds yummy! Just do me a favor and don't glop it up with Cilantro, okay, LOL? Out here in California for some weird reason everybody puts Cilantro on EVERYTHING! It's enough to gag a maggot. Tastes like the inside of a hospital emergency ward smells--yuk!
Have a great 4th!
meh..up here OUR emerg wards are trying to smell of roses in bloom....
Well Gee.... I am now replying to myself...
Eggs have been hard boiled. As soon as they are done, I drain them in the pan they were boiled in and then bounce them up and down for a bit (learned this from some TV chef back a while ago) and them coll them in cold water until they have gotten cool. The cracking of the shells while they are hot and then quickly cooling them helps the membrane just inside the shell to stick to the shell instead of the egg and makes peeling them very easy. I will peel them in a few minutes, and save the best 4 of them for slicing and putting on top of the salad after it is mixed and put into the serving bowl.. Any that didn't peel well are used cut up fine in the salad itself or should i say the worst looking ones...).
I also put in about one half cup of sweet pickle relish. Then I add the ingredient which makes it so good.... I use Miracle Whip, not mayo in the salad. My Grandmother often would make a home made salad dressing for it that was similar to Miracle Whip. How much? Enough to make the consistency right, about half a quart jar.... OK, OK, I heard THAT! You want it to taste good or not! Huh! As Emeril says, "What? It gonna feed like 20 people!" Mix it well and then turn it into the serving dish. For tomorrow it will in just a plastic tub. Then add the eggs on top. I slice them thinly in an egg slicer, but THAT can be done by hand. The eggs are put on top of the salad arranged to cover the entire top and show off the nice yellow yokes of the eggs. Then freshly ground pepper, paprika, and something my Granny didn't use, a bit of "Old Bay" seasoning to top it off.
BTW, I no longer add salt to the salad. I do boil the potatoes in salted water, and that is usually enough. people can add more slat at the table if they wish.
When I get it done, I will take a photo for you.
Hi Tom!
Cilantro???? Not on MY potato Salad!!!
Oh I forgot to tell you, REFRIGERATE IMMEDIATELY! Actually it is not the Mayo/Salad Dressing that causes a problem with potato salad, it is the egg. You want to cool the entire salad ASAP.
There... I think it was Curt who wanted the recipe, now you all got it!
I did just remember I am out of peppercorns... THAT will get added when I get to my son's house tomorrow. I only use fresh ingredients when possible, and usually grind my own when it comes to pepper and coffee!!!
Have a great night
Happy Birthday, America!