Weekend Update 3/28/2010

[Puddington]

um.......what Seuss said...."oh my"...... that is extremely cool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dave V]

I LOVE that N6b!!!  I want one! ;D

[up1950s]

71 Jeep wrote
Richie you do some great flatcar loads how many are you up to by now?

Thanks , haven't counted but my Picasa link under Loaded Freight shows what's  more or less completed so far . Some original , some bought and usually modified to some degree . I have more , but they are unfinished .

[Ed Kapuscinski]

allen.
Oh My!

 

Seconded.

[Freighttrain]

Not much here. Did a product review for Eishindo's new Hankyu 9000 Series T scale trainset. Not that anyone here would be interested...
 


http://1-450.blogspot.com/2010/03/hankyu-9000-series.html

Are those the actual units in the picture?They look so much better than the original seats of whatever jap prototype they were.I might have to buy a set.

[bbussey]

Allen,

A truly outstanding etched model for anyone, let alone the first attempt.  Great job designing and great finished model, looking forward to seeing your next work of art.

[Freighttrain]

David - just briefly jumped on your T gauge site and whoa, that's pretty freaking small!

Shawn

You have no idea until your holding one....small ain't the word for it.A car fits on the walk way of a conventional HO diesel!!!!

[DKS]

Not much here. Did a product review for Eishindo's new Hankyu 9000 Series T scale trainset. Not that anyone here would be interested...
 


http://1-450.blogspot.com/2010/03/hankyu-9000-series.html

Are those the actual units in the picture?They look so much better than the original seats of whatever jap prototype they were.I might have to buy a set.

Yes, those are the actual models I received. You can read more about the set here:

http://1-450.blogspot.com/2010/03/hankyu-9000-series.html

The 103s were the original set, which is what I think you're referring to:

http://www.t-gauge.net/product-1.htm

David - just briefly jumped on your T gauge site and whoa, that's pretty freaking small!

Shawn

You have no idea until your holding one....small ain't the word for it.A car fits on the walk way of a conventional HO diesel!!!!

That's so true. You can see all the photos of them sitting on coins, on pencils, on other models, and you still aren't prepared for their size until you have one in your hand.

[jsoflo]

Nice work as usual everyone, but Allen... agree with everyone else. That is awesome etching!

I have been working on 3 locos, still have a ways to go on my "greenie" and CP SD40-2, but the CP GP38-2 is close to done:

This is a Kato former CP Rail SD40-2 Snoot I am converting to a Reading and Blue Mountain Northern snoot (I think its the only snoot they own), lot of work still to go:



This is another former CP rail Kato Snoot that I chopped the nose on. Still needs a lot of work:



This is a CP Rail GP38-2 I am doing off an undec using a "salt" method, its coming along and getting close to done:



Have a good one!
Jan

[71jeep]

Thanks allot Guys it definitely cam out better than I was expecting for my first attempt at something like this.

There is quite a learning curve to get something like this done all the certain tolerances and such and when I had to teach myself Autocad to do it to boot .;D

I am looking forward to getting my next project done I am almost ready to send that off to etchers as well.

Thanks again guys take care

Allen....

[Packer]

Allen, that's a really good looking cabin car

As for what I've done, I've got my car back together after changing the clutch and fixing some lines. I also my benched GP35 and U30C running again. On the U30C I straightened out it's motor shaft as best as I could, then sanded down the flywheels to try to compensate for it not being perfect. runs nice and sooth now. On the Gp35 I had to figure out how to mount the motor and bring it's hieght up so the driveshafts were as level as possible. I stuck a piece of balsa under the motor then screwed it down. Still fixing the gears by running abrasive polish through them to prevent any sort of binding.

[tom mann]

I started the MicroTrains Z scale SP Type 22 Station kit.  And an amazing kit at that!  The pieces fit together so nicely, it almost builds itself!



from: http://www.micro-trains.com

[DKS]

I started the MicroTrains Z scale SP Type 22 Station kit.  And an amazing kit at that!  The pieces fit together so nicely, it almost builds itself!

That's Robert Ray for you. A wiz with a laze.

[71jeep]

Wow Tom that is an awsome looking structure are you going to weather it up a bit?

[wm3798]

Allen, somewhere Gregg Mahlkov is smiling warmly.  that's a great job.  All I can see is the little fubar there on the end railing.  Beautiful car.

Lee