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Micke C

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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2013, 05:09:33 AM »
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A small photo brake during landscaping...



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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2013, 05:16:26 AM »
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Needed a smaller water tank so I just down sized a Tichy model. I bought a JV Models kit looked inside and said no. The new tank is wrapped around the JV wood core.

Stock size on the right.
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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #17 on: January 26, 2013, 05:30:27 AM »
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Yeah, that JV models branchline watertank kit was a PITA!
Especially as it was the first kit I ever put together  :scared:
Good learning experience, though, and now I have no qualms about scratchin' me own.

Added a couple more ventilated boxcars to the old roster:







Still working on the stagecoaches for a flat load and a RLW conductor car.

This weekend is the annual LD/OPSIG meet and one of our Free-moN group Founders is giving a talk on Free-moN so I've taken out all the seats in the car (save the driver's  :facepalm:) and loaded up the modules to take down to San Jose for a day of show & tell.
The meet this year is at Harry's Hofbrau, so at least I won't starve  :drool:
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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #18 on: January 26, 2013, 10:10:08 AM »
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Quote from: M.C. Fujiwara on January 26, 2013, 05:30:27 AM



Hmm... who is the guy
sitting in the doorway
talking on his cell phone...?

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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #19 on: January 26, 2013, 11:52:34 AM »
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Nice . So Chris what did you use for a new replacement core , and what does the seam look like , is it covered with the level glass or somethin' ? Could you have used a Z one on a heigher scratch base ?
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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #20 on: January 26, 2013, 12:44:39 PM »
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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #21 on: January 26, 2013, 03:14:58 PM »
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Quote from: up1950s on January 26, 2013, 11:52:34 AM
So Chris what did you use for a new replacement core , and what does the seam look like , is it covered with the level glass or somethin' ?

I used these turned wood pieces that came with the JV kit.

The seam is right up front behind those 2 vertical boards.
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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #22 on: January 26, 2013, 03:27:28 PM »
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Short trip with my oldest son to "German Rails" in Bremen, Germany (sorry, but we had only cell phone cams with us):





















also a new power for the layout:




that's all for this weekend..have a nice week together...
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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #23 on: January 26, 2013, 03:45:17 PM »
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I managed to move forward with my Cisco bridge project.  Some key parts arrived this past week and I was able to finish the bents and assemble one half of the structure.  The other half is ready to put together as well.  Overall, the bridge will be 25" long (+20" of approach girder bridges) and I plan to have it  about 12-15" above the river below.



Most of the girder lacing will go on after I mount the cross braces.  Here is a bit more detailed view, sorry the white styrene does not photograph well.

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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #24 on: January 26, 2013, 05:31:56 PM »
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Club has the layout at another train show this weekend, a Great Train Expo, just two weeks after the WGH. Vendor presence is really thin, which is not a surprise. We're running DC for a change, which means I get to drag out some brass that hasn't been run in years plus other older stuff in the round tuit stack waiting for DCC.

A NIB Model Power Vandy tender off of eBay came in the mail yesterday, the initial bit of my first whack at small steam. The other half, a Bachmann Connie, should be here on Tuesday.

Too cold here to do much work on the layout building. Critical path at the moment is electrical, and you (or I, at least) just can't do it with gloves on.
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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #25 on: January 26, 2013, 05:54:37 PM »
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 I like the idea of the road being the aisleway .
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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2013, 06:43:47 PM »
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Oh, I think I'm likin the Cisco bridge................. :D
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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #27 on: January 27, 2013, 02:46:47 AM »
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No modelling this week due to a bout with the flu, but some interesting new products arrived to cheer me up.  My camera is at work so I have resorted to the iPhone for these snaps.

New 1960s/1970s trucks from Showcase Miniatures (production models) . . .




A slab side hopper from Geoff Gooderham (pre-production model) . . .




And GSC Commonwealth trucks for Geoff's CP coaches from Panamint Models (pre-production) . . .




Some nice modelling shown here this week as usual.  Keep us posted on the Cisco bridge, Scott.


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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #28 on: January 27, 2013, 07:29:45 AM »
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The LIRR Industrial Service now has base foam and a channel.





More on the Layout Engineering thread: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=28266.0
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Re: Weekend Update 1/27/13
« Reply #29 on: January 27, 2013, 08:58:33 AM »
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I will officially be going broke when the Canadian slab side hoppers hit Central Hobbies shelves.... :scared: (just made a major order of Geoff's stuff last week) I believe that Geoff said he's going to have multiple hatch arrangements to accomodate the PGE, CN and CP so this will be a huge release for some of us that have been "pining for the fjords" over this missing Canadian model....
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