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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1230 on: November 20, 2020, 01:28:03 PM »
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So really.  Today actually is a work day.  But when the post arrives with goodies, it's hard to resist the temptation to play a little...

A few weeks ago I posted a request for yet another dumpster dive, in hopes of getting the needed parts to restore this:


Thanks to @Mark5 , a box arrived last night which I retrieved from the mailbox this morning.  To my delight, everything was there that I needed, including the "foggy window" glazing for the cab.
Between answering emails, visiting a job site and detailing a cool house plan I'm doing for a cat in Winchester, I shot a little primer, then a little paint, and put Humpty Dumpty together again...





I've put the shell I bought and now repaired onto an old Life Like lead sled drive, so now it has 8 wheel pick up and drive, and runs reasonably well.  I have to a little more trimming, it seems, to get the hind end to sit down a little, which I will probably do after then next round of emails and drafting...



Because... First things first, I had to dig out another carcass from the collection in order to properly punctuate the train...



I need to thumb through the billions of decal scraps I have to see if I have a properly sized B&O reporting mark for the caboose, but this will do the trick for now.

I can't help but feel like I'm atoning for all the old sins I committed when I got rid of the trains of my youth and turned my gaze to more prototypical models.

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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1231 on: November 21, 2020, 12:59:54 AM »
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Okay so sometimes you have to just run trains on the high line so you can build the grade crossing at Paw Paw.




But as soon as the paint dries, it's back to JFRTM!




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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1232 on: November 21, 2020, 01:36:29 AM »
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OK Lee, why are those pieces of road surface so bowed? Did you make them out of cardboard and painted with water-based paints?!  ;)
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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1233 on: November 21, 2020, 08:38:04 AM »
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No... they are craft foam, trimmed to fit but not yet installed.  I have to do a little more landscaping on the other side of the tracks yet...
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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1234 on: November 21, 2020, 11:28:10 AM »
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With enough glue and clamps it'll only be a problem for the present.

And maybe for those 5yrs down the road.
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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1235 on: November 21, 2020, 05:17:11 PM »
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Personally, I prefer to use spackling compound for my roads. Painted to look like asphalt.
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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1236 on: November 22, 2020, 04:44:30 AM »
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Quote from: wm3798 on November 21, 2020, 08:38:04 AM
No... they are craft foam, trimmed to fit ... do a little more landscaping ...

MAN-scaping...?  :o :facepalm:
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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1237 on: November 22, 2020, 11:57:16 AM »
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Brought the Potomac a bit closer to completion...
Using a Trix K-4 headlight mount and a desperately contorted LED, I was able to get light to the high mount headlamp.



Of course, the only way to see it on a DC layout is with a tracking shot!  Also got the bell installed, which was gleaned from the OEM smokebox.



I still have to patch in the walkboards at the smoke box sides, and decide whether I want to change the cab... The cab overhang of the original isn't a match to the WM's All Weather cab, but it helps disguise the spread between the cab and tender, which I need for my ridiculously tight turns.  Maybe on the next one... :D  The finishing touches for this, I think, will be the proper cab number and a few other distinctive decals to make it ready for prime time.
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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1238 on: November 22, 2020, 01:16:14 PM »
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That's an efficient way to put gravel on the roof of those structures but I'd like to see the engineering calcs.   :trollface:
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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1239 on: November 27, 2020, 10:44:11 AM »
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A little holiday traveling this week... Hi rail style!

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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1240 on: December 03, 2020, 09:12:52 AM »
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Making the scene...

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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1241 on: December 03, 2020, 09:19:34 AM »
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Been having a hard time finding a Bachmann shorty in B&O, so I rolled my own.
Needed something to drag around behind the 'bug.



Decal stripes will always be my Achilles heel.



JFRTM now!
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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1242 on: December 03, 2020, 10:00:13 AM »
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Lee, if you hadn't said anything, I'd have thought that was the factory paint.  Even under the usually unflattering close-up, it looks good.
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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1243 on: December 03, 2020, 10:18:43 AM »
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Quote from: wm3798 on December 03, 2020, 09:19:34 AM
Decal stripes will always be my Achilles heel.
Your work is still going to be better than the factory paint jobs on half century old "retro" models.
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Re: N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout
« Reply #1244 on: December 03, 2020, 10:44:00 AM »
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Quote from: Dave V on December 03, 2020, 10:00:13 AM
Lee, if you hadn't said anything, I'd have thought that was the factory paint.  Even under the usually unflattering close-up, it looks good.

Quote from: Point353 on December 03, 2020, 10:18:43 AM
Your work is still going to be better than the factory paint jobs on half century old "retro" models.

^^This and ^this.  However, those finish nails as bumpers?!  C'mon man!  Just do a pile of ballast or a couple of ties jammed into the end of the track.

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