OldSchoolScratchbuilder My geothermal plant manuscript will be sent to both Model Railroader and Railroad Model Craftsman after Christmas. Prior publication is not allowed.
My geothermal plant manuscript will be sent to both Model Railroader and Railroad Model Craftsman after Christmas. Prior publication is not allowed.
Have you read the Terms of Use for the Forums and Kalmbach's online media? Just so you're aware, you gave up the ability to disallow that by continued use of their platform.
Direct quote from the Terms of Use:
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I have no problem with anyone using material I post here for any purpose, including financial gain. That is why I withhold a lot of material and information (why I don't answer some questions for example). What I send in print for publication is not here including photographs. That is what I mean by prior publication - my prior publication online or in print. I have many professional publications under my belt. I know the routine. Thanks.
GraniteRailroader OldSchoolScratchbuilder My geothermal plant manuscript will be sent to both Model Railroader and Railroad Model Craftsman after Christmas. Prior publication is not allowed. Have you read the Terms of Use for the Forums and Kalmbach's online media? Just so you're aware, you gave up the ability to disallow that by continued use of their platform. Direct quote from the Terms of Use: By submitting work to this website, the submitter agrees to grant a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, modify and perform the user submission in connection with the website owner’s business in any media formats now known and hereafter developed and through any media channels. All rights in this paragraph are granted without the need for additional compensation of any sort to the submitter.
When/if I publish my Pidgeon Creek layout or geothermal plant, none of the manuscript material, including photographs, will have been seen by anyone but me and my professional photographer. All of the photos I post here are from my iPhone or iPad. I will not be publishing my display case in a magazine so this thread will continue until the case is finished.
Sometimes I feel like I am living in an alternate universe.
Alton Junction
richhotrain Sometimes I feel like I am living in an alternate universe.
Night has arrived in Nova Scotia and another coat of Scenic Cement applied to the shale and gypsum sub-ballast to dry overnight. More sub-ballast layers tomorrow. Display case grooves have been made with my router so I'll be able to cut and fit all the glass pieces soon.
The easiest way that I have found to replace plastic ties with wooden ones, while maintaining factory rail separation, is to use my Chopper to cut out one at a time and replace one at a time. For me this is not work but fun! This old Made-in-Austria brass straight track will be used on the Alberta side of the display. Each wooden tie is painted before bonding to the rails. Oh, and I keep all the plastic ties and wood bits for future use.
None of those wires will look as if they're hanging in natural catenary, without 'flat spots' or kinks.
As a suggestion, the method used to make watch hairsprings: use a fine wire that hardens when 'fired', cut a groove in a metal plate that corresponds to your span and catenary curve at 'prototype tension', and heat the plate over silver sand or whatever until the wire blues up - you could build up enough oxide thickness to give reasonable black over time, if that helps.
(This approach can also be used with curved plate jigs and appropriate braze material to make complex OHLE arrangements with pulloffs and sinusoidal wear offset at even small scale, for a future project 'under the cat'...)
Great suggestions. The wire I used here was stranded and kindly donated by Maritime Hobbies and Crafts. I've ordered solid to see if it holds a catenary better. Thanks.
All 33 ties painted. I install 10 or 11 at a time, evenly distributed over the length of the track. E6000 glue starts firming up quickly so I'll be able to complete this track this evening.
If you made a simple jig to space ties the right distance, you could do a whole string at a time instead of on by one. In fact, if you are cutting your glass ties to prototypical width as ell, you could use the same jig to replace plastic ties with wood OR glass, a whole strip of track at a time.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Randy: Good idea. When I start to replace all the plastic ties in my layout I'll go the jig route.
Track with wooden ties complete and will look great on the shale ballast. Tomorrow I'll finish the shale sub-ballast, add shale ballast with shale powder for smoothing under the ties, and make a bit more track for the Alberta side.
Working on plants for the greenhouse using real reindeer lichen that I picked from one of the abandoned gypsum quarries in Walton, Nova Scotia back in May. The lichen was boiled in a water-isopropyl-green-dye combination and has held up well, as expected (several references on this in the model railroad literature).
My old school pencil sharpener is very useful for making tapered wooden parts.
Like flower pots!
My wife wants different colours for the pots. I'm ok with that. Will make the glass roof tonight at the National Stained Glass Studio.
All plants installed in the greenhouse. Still to do: door, LED light connected to external power lines, roof, and overhead sprinkler system.
View of the greenhouse from above.
The roadbed in the Badlands is almost complete. A little bit of levelling then the track and final ballast put in place.
Your flower pots are great. Are you going to add some foliage and flowers to the plants?
I've following your thread all along.
Mike.
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mbinsewi Your flower pots are great. Are you going to add some foliage and flowers to the plants? Mike.
Good idea Mike. I'll see what I can do.
Alberta-side track and ballast laid down. Coat of Scenic Cement applied.
When I get home from my music performance tonight, I'm going to begin working this laminated limestone specimen from Cheverie, Nova Scotia into an Badlands hoodoo.
The hoodoo will eventually be mounted on top of the butte. I'll use my router to fit the two together.
OldSchoolScratchbuilder The hoodoo will eventually be mounted on top of the butte. I'll use my router to fit the two together.
richhotrain Any chance you might add a tuya to that scene?
Any chance you might add a tuya to that scene?
There are none that I know of in the Alberta Badlands area I am modelling - certainly not from the area my geologist daughter in Calgary took me hiking.
Hoodoo Mountain in nearby British Columbia is a tuya.
richhotrain Hoodoo Mountain in nearby British Columbia is a tuya.
Wrong province.
Ehh?
You live in Nova Scotia and you are modeling Alberta but you rule out neighboring British Columbia?
What about selective compression?
How can you resist such a rare geological feature as a tuya once you place the hoodoo on the butte?
The Alberta Badlands section of the display will have the butte, hoodoo, tracks, appropriate ground cover, and a derelict coal tipple.