Weekend Update 2/4/18

[SP-Wolf]

One word.... Drool! Love those "Flat Faces". One question, how does it run?

Hey Mike,

Thanks!! She runs extremely well. Very smooth and she is a great puller.

Wolf

[wazzou]

She rubs extremely well. Very smooth and she is a great puller.

Wolf

Sounds like my kind of girl when I was younger.   

[cbroughton67]

Thanks to JNS Graphics, the Little River Lumber Company now has its own company-owned locomotives. I also added some lumber and a few busy workers to finish-out the sawmill scene.


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[mu26aeh]

YorkRail #1500/1504 ready to pull cars out of Windsor Yard.



It's actually the Hagerstown Yard on my Hanover Sub layout.  They will have to make a visit to the "real" model of Windsor St soon 

[BCRail_FSJ]

Just sketching out a trackplan for Fort St. John.   As always it would be easier if I had "just another couple of feet" to play with.

[John]

My family gifted me the KATO P42 AMTRAK Veterans unit for Christmas.  I installed a SDN144K0A 1 Amp N Scale Board Replacement SoundFX/Mobile/FX3 Function Decoder for Kato P42, E8, PA1, F40 and similar locos into the unit following instructions put together by Mike @fifer on youtube .. Mike's instructions were easy to follow ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VneF1BfWIv

I made a short video .. sorry for the jumpiness .. My throttle was some distance away

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I included the keep alive capacitor .. but it still is pretty sensitive to less than perfect clean track ...

[ednadolski]

Hmm... is it a double standard when it comes to such as that with us folks crying "Foobie" if a manufacturer does something like this while we say "prototype freelancing" if we do it?

I think we call that 'modeler's license'

Nice work on the detailing!   

Ed

[SirTainly]

Almost done on the layout room, just reinstalling the storage units at floor level

[Jim Starbuck]

I made more progress on Milwaukee Road FM H10-44  #1804
It's a Shapeways shell that fits an Atlas VO-1000 mechanism.
Lots of Archer decal details added.
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[wm3798]

Enjoyed gooning around at the Timonium Show this afternoon.
Not much railroading to report, but I have been working on some scenery...



...for the high school musical (James and the Giant Peach!)

It's just like cookie cutter benchwork!

Lee

[thomasjmdavis]

Enjoyed gooning around at the Timonium Show this afternoon.
Not much railroading to report, but I have been working on some scenery...



...for the high school musical (James and the Giant Peach!)

It's just like cookie cutter benchwork!

Lee

Looks like that high school has a bigger set budget than the 2 colleges I worked for- lotta plywood in that thing.

[SSW7771]

I made more progress on Milwaukee Road FM H10-44  #1804
It's a Shapeways shell that fits an Atlas VO-1000 mechanism.
Lots of Archer decal details added.
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Looks great. What is your process of getting the shell smooth?

[ednadolski]

Started up a boxcar build/conversion project in Proto:48:



https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=43921.msg562360#msg562360

Cheers,
Ed

[Jim Starbuck]

Looks great. What is your process of getting the shell smooth?

Thanks
I made the mistake of ordering this in FUD. A friend of mine did one in FXD and it was a much better starting point.
*Edit*
I should have pointed out that the 3D rendering work on this model is excellent. The designer did a fine job. It's just that it didn't print smoothly in FUD.
*Edit*
The shell in FUD is a mass of crosshatch patterns.
I shaved off the louvers and door handles in order to access the flat parts and spray bombed it with rattle can auto primer that served as a guide coat and light filler in spots. I then sanded (and sanded and sanded some more) with two sided foam sanding sticks from Hobby Lobby.
I replaced the shaved off louvers, rivets and panel lines with Archer detail decals. Their HO louvers were a perfect match. The door handles are .008 wire.
Had it not been for the Archer details I probably would have scrapped the shell.
It's not a contest model but it looks ok from about 12"-18" and I'm very happy to have the FM switcher on my roster.

[dougnelson]

Is that Bowie?

They are loading race horses at Vanderbilt Stables in Glyndon, MD., headed to California and the Santa Anita Park racetrack.