Your latest project.

[Hawks05]

new project!

BUY MORE STUFF. tomorrow i'm going to a show armed with $120 to spend. i might take another $20-$30 out before i go. you know just in case i have to buy a $20 meal or something or that extra locomotive where i would be $5 short or something.

my list includes

1. BN, BNSF, CSX, CB&Q, GN, UP (even though i despise them i'd like to have one loco since UP is all i get to see), or any other locomotive that attracts my attention/liking.
2. More kits of boxcars, gondolas, hoppers, or 1-2 cabooses.
3. RTR stuff of the above mentioned.
4. old but still runnable pieces of rolling stock.
5. tools (small hand drill, phillips head screwdrivers) and supplies (couplers, metal axle wheels or metal wheel sets.)
6. books/magazines
7. memorabilia of CNW

then after that its back to figuring out my layout and what i'll have on it and when to buy the supplies for benchwork. i really need to start so i can see my stuff in action. and of course if i buy any kits i'll have to put those together. i'm hoping i can buy a few of these, kits, at least 5 or 6.
8. whatever else i see that i like

[Anonymous]

1. Design and build layout as soon as we [family] move into our recently purchased house.
2. Weather a good portion of my rolling stock.
3. Finish detailing some engines.
4. Possibly DCC.

[AggroJones]

Inventing new ways to effectively weather some ATSF reefers.

[dehusman]

Figuring out how to scratchbuild a P&R 37' class HPa hopper bottom gon.

Dave H.

[Anonymous]

We our having a big flea market here in La Crosse Wi. This Sat. Jan 31 at the La Crosse Center, so I have been really busy getting almost all of my Soo LIne & CP power ready to be sold. Going head long into steam,after buying my frist Broadway Limited Mike.Sound is so sweet!!!

[vsmith]

I always have 5 or 10 "projects" going on at any given time.

I work on what interests me, what I have supplies for, or what I have time to do. If I get bored or frustrated I put it aside and work on something else and come back to the first project later or after I've figured it out.

Let see, currently i have to...

Finish painting the kitbashed tender for my 0-4-0

Continue painting and installing the MDF boards as a backdrop (been too cold to work out there)

Paint the RR office structure

Replace the couplers on some new aquisitions.

Add cut levers and chains to some existing cars.

Begin stacking foam blocks for scenery.

Finish wiring controls for a siding extension.

Continue work on my HOn30 micro-layout.

Continue work on my G gauge micro-layout.
(these are test bed experiments for the big layout)

Repaint and finish botched passenger car shortening project.

Add newly arrived custom decals to all locomotives.

Figure out how to use the airbrush I picked up at Harbor Freight Tools for $15.

Figure out how to clean the airbrush from Harbor Freight Tools without wrecking it.

Make foamcore mock ups of all my custom buildings ( about 5 total ).

I'm sure I'm missing a few other things, but hey, I'll need something to do this summer.

[Anonymous]

I got several projects going on.

For my business I am presently repairing a Rivorossi Big Boy. (It was dropped. Needs new details and handrails applied) and prepairing to paint a set of Narrow Gauge Passenger cars.

Personally. I am stalled in the process of rewiring my layout to DCC. (Space conflicts with my parents so they have forced the dismantlement of my layout and rearrangement of the sections so they have more space. Leaving me with a dead layout for the time being) I am presently reldoing an inventory of all my model railroad items after suffering a computer failure. and gathering to gether and planning structures for a Maintainence and Rebuild Facility on my layout. This will be on a HOne Track Module and so far is using Bachmann's Car shop, Locomaintence building. Life-Like Transfer Crane. Walthers Northern Power & Light power house. Rix engine house with attatched office. and some shed I found in my spares box for my "Scale House"

After I get that done. I have an SW-1 and Caboose to paint in the private roadname of the Maintence facility.

Thats what I have planned out for this year.

James

[Anonymous]

I have two projects that I am focused on and will keep me busy for some time. Printing decals from existing masters is the minor project. Building more conifer trees than I care to think about is the major undertaking.

Tom

[mls1621]

Latest project is building seven hot metal cars in N scale for my neighbor's steel mill.

I've got two pairs of double truck bogies finished and turned the metal vessel monday on a friends lathe. Once that's finished, we can cast up a mess of them.

[Anonymous]

1.) Repairing benchwork
2.) Adding Lights to layout room
3.) Building kits (love those Athearn and MDC freights)
4.) adding metal wheels to item 3
5.) making repairs to 30 year Athearn SW7 Switcher
6.) Waiting for the next "Daddy the freight cars fall off the tracks"

DT

[Anonymous]

As for me, work bench up and running. It has accelerated some of the projects. I am working on a pair of SD24's which I hope to finish soon. They are not meant to be museum quality, however and are being used as a learning tool. Eventually they will be working hard.

I am finally able to catch up on all the other need to do's and in between honey do projects and errands and studies, I can duck into the bench and slowly start on the structures this year. I may have some pics soon. I found a site to host my pics and that is a project by itself.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

Let's see....

Painting a bathroom and replacing all the fixtures and figuring out the mysterious water source in the garage.........and then.........

Finishing a remotor / DCC installation on a couple of my old Athearn warhorses so I can use them at the club. Then I'm going to get back to work on a SDP40F/SDF40-2 project I'd like to complete mixed in with a batch of rolling stock weathering.

two Bathrooms finished today, Hooray

And yes thank you very much for the info on the motor I will check it out, thanks again
Mysterious water source determined.....one new hose bib and set of washber hoses later. Bathroom painted, fixtures replaced.........leak checked...re-replaced....leak checked ...re-re-replaced....functioning normally.

SDF40-2 completed, DCC'd and running on club along with old Athearn F7A.


Current Projects: Making decals, fininshing touches on a RPP/Athearn CF7 project.

Next: E8 paint, detail, repower, get out of box and on to track. After that paint/letter some home road rolling stock.

[Big_Boy_4005]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Big_Boy_4005

I'm just starting construction on my 46' x 34' , three level, 3 rail O guage layout. I've nearly completed the lowest level, a 5 track double ended staging / storage yard, with each track close to 120'. I figure it will keep me busy for a few years.

Things are progressing nicely, and a picture is worth a thousand words. I started this on Christmas day.

[Anonymous]

MT6/SD38 slugset, 2 GP40FH-2s, and some NS Top Gons. For the layout its getting the plywood up!

[Anonymous]

Lets see,

1) I'm currently rebuilding most of the buildings in my townsite. I built them 10 years ago right out of the box, no painting or detailing. Most of them are Micro engineering kits (two stores and a bar. Another is a Woodland scenics Ticket office and the last one looks like an ols sheriff's office that I want to convert into the town's RCMP headquarters. The Ticket office already comes with an interior so I'm just detailing that and I'm building a full interior to the bar (scribed wood walls, floor furniture) the others I'm just repainting and trying to make them look like there's an interior.

2) I got my hands on an old MDC Boxcab diesel and am converting it to look like a Canadian National engine. I scratchbuilt a set of GP-9 spark arrestors for it and it's waiting for it to warm up so I can paint it.

3) Finally I got to fix that area on my switch-back that seems determined to derail my CNR SW1200rs. I think the turnout has to be moved back.

Glen

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

Let's see....

Painting a bathroom and replacing all the fixtures and figuring out the mysterious water source in the garage.........and then.........

Finishing a remotor / DCC installation on a couple of my old Athearn warhorses so I can use them at the club. Then I'm going to get back to work on a SDP40F/SDF40-2 project I'd like to complete mixed in with a batch of rolling stock weathering.

Mysterious water source determined.....one new hose bib and set of washber hoses later. Bathroom painted, fixtures replaced.........leak checked...re-replaced....leak checked ...re-re-replaced....functioning normally.

SDF40-2 completed, DCC'd and running on club along with old Athearn F7A.


Current Projects: Making decals, fininshing touches on a RPP/Athearn CF7 project.

Next: E8 paint, detail, repower, get out of box and on to track. After that paint/letter some home road rolling stock.

[Anonymous]

I'm adding about 18 inches of width to the current benchwork about 17 down in lenght. All this to add a double main.

RMax

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Fergus

Originally posted by dharmon

Let's see....

Painting a bathroom and replacing all the fixtures and figuring out the mysterious water source in the garage.........and then.........[quote/]

and then there's the bedrooms and hallway that need painting and then.....

According to the MiL "in 10 years, when all else is done, I can sit down and play with the trains". [soapbox]

Sorry for the rant but I had some venting to do.

Once I fini***he painting I'll get back to finishing the laying of the track, about 30'. This will include 8 turnouts, one access hole, wiring and a lot of frustration. Then I have three locos to paint and approximately 100' of track to ballast.

Maybe I should have that party here.[;)]

Fergus,

Did you check the link I posted for you on the repowering a big boy thread? A dude on Ebay is selling a motor that might interest you.......after you get the painting done Mister!

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