Weekend Update 9/28/25

[chuck geiger]

Building the same on a new project and ordered gamers static 1mm green mix, it still will be too tall. This works:




Which stock number green blend did you use?

[chuck geiger]

I toggled this together.

Fine green, yellow, and dirt. Needs lighter green and browns. Needs way more work.

[Erik W]

Ok that’s it. No more dang tugboat! Finally finished the tug for the layout. The Ropes of Scale place came through. Really, really nice product.

To make the front and side buffers I used short pieces of the rope, dipped one end in CA, held that end down and scraped the piece with the blunt side of a steel blade, pulling it away from the glued end repeatedly until all strands separated and frayed out in a fan like shape. It was actually kind of fun.

Wow!  Your tugboat is quite impressive.  Well done!  Your tugboat makes me want to resurrect my idea of building a tugboat/car ferry diorama with the subject being a Lackawanna tugboat as seen here in 1956.  When I first saw this photo, I really liked the look with the orange superstructure and the green framing on the logo on the stack. 

At any rate, you did a really good job with this, and it's something that will definitely stand out on your layout.



Erik

[Sumner]

Later in the day…..

 

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…. finished the clouds and re-blended the top of the backdrop.

Time to do the last backdrop to go on the other side of this one.

A link to this whole build ( HERE )
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Sumner

[gi-depp]

finished my second Kato SD40N #1618

[LARGEdrop]

Awesome looking locomotives!

[NtheBasement]

Continuing the project to replace the flood loader with a steel model.  I managed to fry $60 worth of AzaTrax circuits trying to start loading the upper hopper while the chute is still over the rear of just-loaded coal gon.  Plan B is to daisy chain two single MRD1-V detectors - one supplying power to the other, which powers the DPDT switch - so that gon loading only happens if the gon blocks both detectors.  In the mean time I'm detailing the loader.

[Iain]

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made some progress on my ns gp18 project

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got my prr f30 ready for paint, just in time for the rainy season


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added n-possible coupler and uncoupling levers to a bunch of my bluford hoppres

[gi-depp]

@Iain: love the GP18, very nice

[Steve Smith]

Given the backgroup in the first photo, I would have expected a Baldwin 

[lv4142003]

Iain, did you ever complete the Atlantic & East Carolina F2 unit?