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Philip H

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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #45 on: March 01, 2010, 11:30:42 AM »
Looks like ground up Smurfs . . . .
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #46 on: March 01, 2010, 11:50:45 AM »
Quote from: Philip H on March 01, 2010, 11:30:42 AM
Looks like ground up Smurfs . . . .

Finally, a good use for Smurfs.
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #47 on: March 01, 2010, 12:52:17 PM »
Quote from: tom mann on March 01, 2010, 10:57:47 AM
What is your road paved with?

I didn't have any smurf available, so I used plaster tinted with black dye.  

yeah, I know.. the color is off. My high quality point-n-shoot digital.  ;)



happy now, friggin' nitpickers??   ;D ::)
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #48 on: March 01, 2010, 02:11:50 PM »
Gary, excellent CP unit. Rock on.

Some more CV pics. Night shots, anyone?
  

    


The wires got some paint on them:
  

  

  

I even built the Section Break over the crossover:
    

Yard tracks wired beneath the bridges:
    


Remember folks, we're open next Saturday! (March 6th) 9am to 4pm. 2 rail O scale items from local dealers and modelers are available for sale. The club layout will be open at 10am with an operating session. Grace Church, 7 E. Maple Ave, Merchantville, NJ 08109. Admission to dealers $5 (spouse and children free), Layout tour free.


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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #49 on: March 01, 2010, 04:42:33 PM »
Very nice CAT! I am jelous, want to wire up South station for me?  ;D

I just finished my write-up on building GP10 quickly:
http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?p=672894#post672894
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #50 on: March 01, 2010, 05:13:00 PM »
Hiroe , holy cow , that is some intricate cat system . Best I've seen in N Scale .
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #51 on: March 01, 2010, 05:50:21 PM »
It's O Scale.
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #52 on: March 01, 2010, 06:21:13 PM »
O scale , hell , he could have used an arc welder like the real deal . ???
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #53 on: March 01, 2010, 06:27:18 PM »
Quote from: up1950s on March 01, 2010, 06:21:13 PM
O scale , hell , he could have used an arc welder like the real deal . ???
Now that's funny! :D :D
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #54 on: March 01, 2010, 07:08:59 PM »
Quote from: wazzou on March 01, 2010, 05:50:21 PM
It's O Scale.

What was that earlier comment about "nitpickers"?
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #55 on: March 01, 2010, 07:20:57 PM »
Quote from: pedro on March 01, 2010, 08:05:09 AM
The small mirror is an auxiliary one that faces forward, allowing the engineer to see someone standing on the front bottom step of a wide cab without craning your neck out the window. The two reflective surfaces face each other in such a way so that by looking forward into the large main mirror, you see the reflection of the bottom step in the smaller one. Hope that explanation makes sense. They swivel out of the way when not needed.

Now, why there's one on the fireman's side on the CP engine, I don't know. On BNSF engines they're only on the engineer's side.

Pete

Thanks for the info Pete, that makes perfect sense.  The mirror on the fireman's side of my model is an error - the proto CP units don't have them, as I discovered last night...  it's coming off!  [I blame Craig because he supplies the same number of full size and folding mirrors on his detail fret...]  I'm also looking forward to adding those custom made handrails that Ed vowed to whip up for me.   :D ;)

Fantastic cat work Hiroe!
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #56 on: March 01, 2010, 07:50:16 PM »
While this stuff might be O, i've *also* done working compound cat in N.
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #57 on: March 01, 2010, 09:57:36 PM »
Quote from: up1950s on March 01, 2010, 05:13:00 PM
Hiroe , holy cow , that is some intricate cat system . Best I've seen in N Scale .
Ditto. Awesome detail.

I made some more trees.
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #58 on: March 02, 2010, 06:10:12 AM »
Quote from: diezmon on March 01, 2010, 12:52:17 PM
Quote from: tom mann on March 01, 2010, 10:57:47 AM
What is your road paved with?

I didn't have any smurf available, so I used plaster tinted with black dye.  

yeah, I know.. the color is off. My high quality point-n-shoot digital.  ;)



happy now, friggin' nitpickers??   ;D ::)

Your Smurf road (LOL) looks great. May I ask what you used for forms?
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Re: Weekend Update - 2/28/2010
« Reply #59 on: March 02, 2010, 05:53:34 PM »
Quote from: UP1996 on March 02, 2010, 06:10:12 AM
Quote from: diezmon on March 01, 2010, 12:52:17 PM
Quote from: tom mann on March 01, 2010, 10:57:47 AM
What is your road paved with?

I didn't have any smurf available, so I used plaster tinted with black dye.  

yeah, I know.. the color is off. My high quality point-n-shoot digital.  ;)


happy now, friggin' nitpickers??   ;D ::)

Your Smurf road (LOL) looks great. May I ask what you used for forms?


I just pinned down some square styrene rod I had lying around. After the plaster hardened a bit, I removed the forms and worked in the slope with  the back end of a tweezers.

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