Weekend Update 1/24/2010

[flight2000]

Recently got some graff done on a few models:

Hiroe,

Who makes those gons?

Thanks,
Brian

[Hiroe]

Recently got some graff done on a few models:

Hiroe,

Who makes those gons?

Thanks,
Brian

Brian,
Before i answer, you should know what they're not your regular folgers crystals N scale.

The upper one is a kit put out by American Standard Models, and the fishbelly is one of the older Atlas/Roco O releases (this tooling has been resurrected as part of their Trainman line).

--Drew

[sirenwerks]

DRew,

Shouldn't that be another list, and not on the N list. It's real nice, but not exactly topical.

[wm3798]

In Drew's defense, the Weekend Update column only appears in the N Scale forum...  An extended conversation about his project might migrate, though...

Lee

[DKS]

In Drew's defense, the Weekend Update column only appears in the N Scale forum...

True. The Weekend Update is relatively scale-agnostic. No one has kicked me out for my Z scale stuff... yet.

[Erik W]

Everyone's modeling is so good, I can't tell what scale things are half the time anymore anyway.

Erik

[Blazeman]

Recently got some graff done on a few models:

Hiroe,

Who makes those gons?

Thanks,
Brian

Brian,
Before i answer, you should know what they're not your regular folgers crystals N scale. 

--Drew

Ah heck. Wish you hadn't spilled the beans. You'd have had Ed K gasping for breath. And Vollmer too.

[sirenwerks]

I got nothin' against Drew nor his modeling, just hate it when N scale gets its face rubbed with models it doesn't have. If this were a kitbash or scratchbuild, something that showed some technique we could use, I probably wouldn't have said anything.

[ednadolski]

just hate it when N scale gets its face rubbed with models it doesn't have.

Understandable -- but only to a point.  Every scale has its limitations and tradeoffs, but that's just the way it is, so we have to learn to live with them.  I try not to view it as a matter of "face rubs", and I think it's a mistake to let limitations become an impediment to appreciating good work done in other scales.

I have multiple scales -- N, HO, and O (with fantasies about Z and S), and even that is not a panacea because I end up having to multiplex my time & resources between them, so sometimes it seems like I get very little done.  Again, it comes down to the tradeoffs.

Ed  

[Hiroe]

I got nothin' against Drew nor his modeling, just hate it when N scale gets its face rubbed with models it doesn't have. If this were a kitbash or scratchbuild, something that showed some technique we could use, I probably wouldn't have said anything.

Well, if you're going to play the game of "who's scale has less stuff" :, N is actually better off than O. Sure, there's a ton of stuff put out in 3-rail, but the vast majority of it is useless to the two-rail scale crowd. frankly, i'd *LOVE* to have the variety of N available to me in O. Those two gondolas pictured above are two of the three *total* plastic modern gondolas available for scale-O. Beyond that, i can either pay hundreds of dollars for hard-to-find brass, or scratchbuild.

Techniques you can use? Well, the second of those two cars is intentionally warped with a heat gun, something i've also done in N.

But since you insist :

This is a scratchbuilt scale test car i built over the holidays. Main body is actually a wood block that i trimmed the major shape of with a table saw, then went to town with a set of files. The wheel bearings were trimmed out of a cast-white-metal freight truck; and as O has an extremely limited selection of decals, i've had to scrounge what i can from secondhand out-of-print Walthers sets.

[flight2000]

Recently got some graff done on a few models:

Hiroe,

Who makes those gons?


Thanks,
Brian

Brian,
Before i answer, you should know what they're not your regular folgers crystals N scale.

The upper one is a kit put out by American Standard Models, and the fishbelly is one of the older Atlas/Roco O releases (this tooling has been resurrected as part of their Trainman line).

--Drew

No wonder I couldn't find them... :   Because the coupler on the top gon looks an awful lot like a McHenry, thought they were N Scale and Athearn had slipped one by us...

Nice work though either way.

Thanks,
Brian