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Weekend Update 1/23/22
« on: January 21, 2022, 07:25:45 PM »
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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2022, 07:57:14 PM »
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Hey, my real life industry! Although, they’re not called spools, they’re called reels; however, when we draw the wire to spin into the metal conductors, we put them on bobbins. Our plant doesn’t ship by rail anymore, we just get in plastic pellets. I have a picture of one of the pictures hanging in the plant that shows they used to get tank cars. I was also told we had a switch engine for losing reels onto flat cars at one point.
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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2022, 07:59:47 PM »
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Better modeling through peer pressure!



I appreciate the comments from everyone who chimed in last week. I could have used something thinner for the town level, but I wanted to keep the height. The gentler slope does tie the two levels together better, I believe, and negates some of the “wedding cake” look. Perhaps a little less of the “Geographically Improbable Railway.”

I also gussied up a CMW truck with Tomix wheels, Nengineering baby moons, and hand painted decaled whitewalls.


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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2022, 09:49:34 PM »
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I like it. I also spy one of Charlie's corner taverns.
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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2022, 10:03:03 PM »
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Good to see the Flagstop Inn.....needs a roof!!!
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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2022, 10:09:51 PM »
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Quote from: ncbqguy on January 21, 2022, 10:03:03 PM
Good to see the Flagstop Inn.....needs a roof!!!
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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2022, 10:18:45 PM »
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Quote from: Chris333 on January 21, 2022, 09:49:34 PM
I like it. I also spy one of Charlie's corner taverns.


Been trying to find one of those for years!
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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2022, 08:48:15 AM »
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I purchased two AB sets of the new Kato F7's in Milw paint in order to cobble together an ABA set (which is the configuration that they were purchased in by the Milwaukee).  I removed the numbers and bought a set of the extra numberboards for the Kato FP7's (yes, the number is for an FP7, but most will not know that).  I installed new couplers (unimates between units, a MT True-Scale on the nose of the lead unit, and a MT coupler on the trailing unit), added windshield wipers, added Digitrax DN-163K0b decoders, and weathered them.  Before weathering and before I installed the wipers, I masked the windshields so that it looks like the wipers are functionable.  A nice little effect that isn't too hard to execute. 

I did complete the other B unit as well which I may put up on the better known auction site to sell, or I might just use it when I'm not running prototypically for a 4 unit set.



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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2022, 11:18:20 AM »
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Classic Kato F units, really nice work @altohorn25 !  The Tru-Scale coupler looks great on the front.

  Frank
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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2022, 11:29:36 AM »
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What is the feasibility of using the true scale couplers on the heavyweight passenger cars?
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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2022, 02:02:06 PM »
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Happy weekend.  It's Sunday morning here in NZ.  Haven't been able to do a lot of modelling in a while, so I'm happy that I could even find my airbrush!  The RS-1 is Morristown & Erie #15 and she was painted red about 20 years ago.  I work really fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  The MP-15 is just a patched Atlas model, much like the real one.  My Alco models get more love than the others.  The GP-7u sits on a LL GP-20, hence the wrong fuel tank, must fix that.  Just have to redo some artwork for the decals and get them printed.
Enjoy your weekend.
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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2022, 02:26:50 PM »
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For my HOn3 D&RGW Jordan Spreader OU build this week I worked on the details that will occupy the rear deck of the spreader.  In looking at photos, there would usually be a couple of re-railing frogs on the rear deck.  Last weekend I had considered ordering the Nolan and Buda type re-railing frogs prevalent on the D&RGW from Precision Scale Co on ebay, but I figured in the time it took them to get here I could just scratch build them myself . . . and save about $20.  So, with the dimensions from plans I have, and photos of O scale brass parts and prototype photos I found, I scratch built both re-railing frogs.  I also scratch built a sledge hammer and found a shovel on a parts sprue left over from a 1/72 scale armor build, that when measured, scales out perfectly to 1/87 scale.  With these details and some extra chain and a few pieces of scale lumber, the rear deck has the cluttered look of the prototype.  The only other thing I did to the spreader was the stack on the deck house looked too big to me.  I removed the .100" tube and replaced it with a .080" tube and added the water deflector around it.  Now it's time to clean up the model and get a coat of gray primer on it.

I was wondering why this build has taken so long, so I counted the parts.  356 individual parts and pieces!  All in a model 4.75" long x 1.5" wide.  What's interesting too is that this is a true multi-media build, with parts from wood, laser cut plywood, white metal, nickel silver, brass, phosphor bronze, plastic, sytrene, delrin, rubber, and resin.

I broke out the blue background for these last photos before the model is covered in paint.  :)





















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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2022, 04:37:01 PM »
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This past week I was able to take some time thanks to a rare 5 inches of snow and form the main hills for my layout. The proto area I’m modeling has a bit of up and down, and I think these capture that variation well. The corrugate strip is modeling a future overpass for the road, and I’ll be adding some downhill relief. I might trim up the forward side of the lower hill and make a larger depression area to really get some good plus and minus relief.



I also had some time in the evenings to start scenery; I chose to begin in the trough between the two main tracks. I started with a clay colored layer of sculptamold in a channel I cut in the foam; then I used some thinned brown acrylic to help tone it down. Next was a layer of Scenic Express brown ground foam, then fine woodland scenics yellow foam and course light green. Overall I like the way it captures the patchiness of grass in the fall. I’ll be adding some weed tufts here and there to it as well.

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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2022, 05:13:55 PM »
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Are you planning to paint your ties and rail?
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Re: Weekend Update 1/23/22
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2022, 05:34:49 PM »
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Quote from: wazzou on January 22, 2022, 05:13:55 PM
Are you planning to paint your ties and rail?

The ties have been painted and I’m happy with them. The rail did not take the paint as well as I had hoped, but I have some markers for some sort of modeling that I bought at Hobby Lobby here that I’m going to try out on the rails.
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