I don't know if you would call it "working", but today we were working on the corner module for our club's museum layout that is leaving for another showing in a few weeks, and we were doing whatever came to mind including figuring out where everything was to go. One of our members was sifting through detail parts and came across an easel, but thought nothing of it. That is, until he came across a figure of an artist uncountable boxes or drawers later. Now where did that easel go? We looked and looked, but with no success to find that easel again. So I'm thinking "Now how hard could it be to build an easel from scratch?" It can't be THAT hard, right? So I grab some styrene and sit down where I could, which happened to be one of those new folding tables. NOT the old wooden kind. Plastic. Now we did have a piece of tile for working on, but it was in use for the member painting birds. I cut out the right sizes in the styrene and set them out on the table and procede to glue the piece that goes across the front onto it, leaving a gap between the top of the two legs for the front leg. I use Ambroid Plastic Welder to do this. So I think its dry and go to pick it up, and its attatched to the PLASTIC table. Oops. So I give up and take the (newly cut) pieces home with me to finish on a glass plate. It wasn't easy. Every time I glued the front parts together something would move. I finally got the front together and tried to glue the rear leg in between the gap at the top of the two front legs. Slip, slide, fall, curse, repeat. And again. How about once more. I finally get it together and realize that I forgot the paint. So I move on to the chain that holds the legs together. Thread? That should work. Thankfully it did without a lot of hassle. And this is what I get for ALL that.
I am never volunteering to make detail parts EVER again.
Here is some pics of my new 5 impact cars that I got today at the Augusta Maine train show.
not bad for $7.50 brand new still in the box, had to mix and match the A,B end cars with the C,D,E middle cars, but I'll live.
and here is my new feed and fertilizer dealer.
sooner or later I'll get around to weathering things
I hope!
bill
Texas Zepher wrote
"Those look really nice. They give one a new perspective on a layout like large code 100 rail is and how tight the curves and turnouts are."
Yep not to mention the huge track spike heads between the rails
and cracks showing light in the tunnel
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danpik wrote: Here is a pic of a custom paint N scale U23B that I just finished Dan Pikulskiwww.DansResinCasting.com
Here is a pic of a custom paint N scale U23B that I just finished
Dan Pikulski
www.DansResinCasting.com
Great looking loco.
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
I've been busy getting a scratch-built tank car up to a position ready to have its trucks and couplers mounted. The paintings done so by next week (all things arrived hopefully) I'll have another car to add to the collection.
Ian
What is this "N" scale locomotive??On the bottom it says MRC yugoslavia??
it is six wheel drive.
Thanks for help
I haven't gotten a whole lot done on the layout, I took my wife for a weekend getaway to Brown County, IN.
I did find these in an antique store just east of Nashville, IN though...
$15 for all 4, and interesting reading from around (slightly before) the period I want to model.
Well its been awhile so I will post a picture of one of my CF7s
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
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oleirish wrote: What is this "N" scale locomotive??On the bottom it says MRC yugoslavia?? it is six wheel drive. Thanks for help
Alco RSD 11?
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
I finally took some pictures of my layout today. So here they are
tomkat-13 wrote: oleirish wrote: What is this "N" scale locomotive??On the bottom it says MRC yugoslavia?? it is six wheel drive. Thanks for helpAlco RSD 11?
It also has the ultra rare convertable top. The engineers tell me these things were a real chick magnet
It's not glamorous but...
..through the silhouette of Rock Ridge you can see the first step towards the new Rock Ridge and Train City--the track lighting I installed today.
Lego_90 wrote:I haven't gotten a whole lot done on the layout, I took my wife for a weekend getaway to Brown County, IN.I did find these in an antique store just east of Nashville, IN though... $15 for all 4, and interesting reading from around (slightly before) the period I want to model.
Great find!
Would you be interested in parting with the May GM&O cover issue?
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I have been super-elevating my curves. Until this one, I was using 14" styrene strips of .010, .020, 030, .020 and finally .010 thickness laid end to end through the curves.
Since this curve was not as long as the others I left out the .010 strip on each end.
Regards,
Tom
Some really good photos tonight guys. I'm still out of my league.
Tom - nice little building. Be sure to show it when you get it finished.
ARTHILL - some great night-time photos there. They really set the mood.
Not much new on the BRVRR. I took a couple of photos this evening though.
There is a new addition to the motive power roster on the BRVRR. NYC E8A #4089 shown here as part of a consist. The silver trucks are a dead give-away for new motive power. Managed to get it on sale from Walters through a LHS. I put in a Soundtraxx DSD-100LC decoder and a small speaker. The sound could be better, I didn't want to carve up the chassis.
This second photo is of one of the LED 'light poles' I made last week for the layout. The LEDs put out a lot of light, but it is not as intense as the photo shows. Next is a flood light project to light the sides of my grain elevator.
My camera: HP PhotoSmart M415, 5.2 MP. The photos were sized with Adobe Photoshop 5.0.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Rock Ridge at Sunset.
Chip, that photo is particularly artistic. The lighting achieves an outstanding photgraphic effect.
Maybe you should paint that drainpipe as a rainbow?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
MisterBeasley wrote: Maybe you should paint that drainpipe as a rainbow?
Nah, haven't you heard. The leprechauns are carrying credit cards these days.
Oh, yeah, I get it. The weren't in 1885. We can time travel that gold.
Actually, I was thinking Kansas. Preiser has lions and kids that could be Dorothy, but you'd have to scratch the Tin Woodsman.
And the same goes for your little dog.
MisterBeasley wrote: Actually, I was thinking Kansas. Preiser has lions and kids that could be Dorothy, but you'd have to scratch the Tin Woodsman.And the same goes for your little dog.
See that's the difference between you and me. I see the practical applications. That gold will go a long way to getting my layout built.
You, on the other hand, have your head in the clouds in some airy-fairy land of wizards and witches. That's not some Hogwartzy place I'd ever model.
Great sunset, SpaceMouse.
Here are a couple of photos of my weekend project. We should be ready to lay track over the bridge on Thursday.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
gear-jammer wrote: Great sunset, SpaceMouse.Here are a couple of photos of my weekend project. We should be ready to lay track over the bridge on Thursday.Sue
Sue, is that horse eating the cowboys pants? How's he gonna' git home?
lvanhen wrote: gear-jammer wrote: Great sunset, SpaceMouse.Here are a couple of photos of my weekend project. We should be ready to lay track over the bridge on Thursday.SueSue, is that horse eating the cowboys pants? How's he gonna' git home?
Lou,
Good eye. If I had done more contrasting of color, you could see that he is loose and running off with the cowboy's pants. I had a gelding that would run off with anything that you left unattended.