Weekend Update 6/2/19

[Dave V]

No work this weekend...just played with trains:













This weekend is the Denver Pop Culture Con (formerly Denver ComicCon, but licensing issues forced the name change).  I engaged in another hobby of mine:



I know...  The collar rank is on order!  Also, before you judge, it was actually my wife who got me into cosplay!

[John]

[bbussey]

I know...  The collar rank is on order!  Also, before you judge, it was actually my wife who got me into cosplay!

Oh sure, throw Patty under the bus!  Is that something Picard would do?? 

[Dave V]

Oh sure, throw Patty under the bus!  Is that something Picard would do?? 

Oh, no bus here!  She’s proud to have gotten me into a hobby that doesn’t involve trains!

[wm3798]

Kilroy was here.

[DKS]

[Dave V]

Yay...  LOL.  I showed Patricia the banner and yet I'm still allowed to sleep in the house so that's good...   

[Jim Starbuck]

Here’s a bit more progress on my HH660 build.
The shell is all ready for paint.
I need to add the fuel tank skirts and air tanks then the sill will be ready for paint as well.

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[up1950s]

Um, what?

As far as my hands, I usually wear gloves, either to protect from burns or, if I'm rebuilding something, to keep them clean.  Lots of folks wind up with screwed up skin due to long term exposure to oils and solvents, and I'd prefer to avoid that.


As far as calling me captain, well, I'm not a captain, and implying that I am a member of the deck department is a bit insulting.

  This talking , joking thing is just too complicated for me . I'm going back inside .

[Jbub]

As always the modeling this week is awesome! I have been a little busy with a home project that will last a few months. So no modeling from me but here are a couple of pics from what I've been up to.


My wife wants a new house so I tore the old one down 

But since I need to TIE this into railroading in some way this house was built in the late 40's when building codes weren't really a thing. I discovered this in the rubble.



Yes, that's a used railroad tie that was used in construction of the house. My grandpa owned this house as a rental and remembers it being built (before it was owned by him) and said the builder would seriously scavenge other job sites and use whatever he could find in building it. He said the first thing he should have done when he bought it back in the late 60's early 70's was tear it down. Gramps has been gone for almost 6 years and now that I own the house I'm fulfilling his wish.
And just so you know, yes there will be a model railroad in the basement... eventually.

[pdx1955]

Been working on the next couple of NP-themed T-Trak modules. These will be representative of the Teanaway -Bristol section just east of Cle Elum, WA. The Teanaway River crossing is in the foreground. I got a photographic background on order as I wanted to try that method.



I also finally completed my caboose projects with a SP silver-painted C40-3 for the Pacific Coast Expediter (a 1st class freight), a SP C30-4 with the original vermillion ends, and a NP wooden caboose.

[Kentuckian]

Jbub,

When I first saw your photos, I thought you were doing what I had been doing last week, volunteer cleanup from the Dayton tornados.

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Fortunately the occupants of this house were not home during the storm.

I would say which volunteer group I am working with, but I wouldn’t want anyone to get triggered.  Progress on my challenge project has been affected.

[peteski]

A challenge I didn't think I could pull off seems to be coming together.. a classic warbonnet F7 in T scale.  No decals exist for this in this scale so I'm doing it mostly by masking, which is pretty tough at this size (34mm long front to rear).  Someone here very generously volunteered to try print some on an Alps but oh I'm stubborn.  Sequence was silver (mask), yellow (mask), red; Then peel and decal.  In the 2nd pic I've started decal application (lettering and black pinstripes), and probably some touch-up, which will complete the paint job.  Incidentally the shell (and frame and trucks) are 3D/Shapeways models I designed.

So how long is that shell again?   
I'm speechless!

[up1950s]

As always the modeling this week is awesome! I have been a little busy with a home project that will last a few months. So no modeling from me but here are a couple of pics from what I've been up to.

But since I need to TIE this into railroading in some way this house was built in the late 40's when building codes weren't really a thing. I discovered this in the rubble.



Yes, that's a used railroad tie that was used in construction of the house. My grandpa owned this house as a rental and remembers it being built (before it was owned by him) and said the builder would seriously scavenge other job sites and use whatever he could find in building it. He said the first thing he should have done when he bought it back in the late 60's early 70's was tear it down. Gramps has been gone for almost 6 years and now that I own the house I'm fulfilling his wish.
And just so you know, yes there will be a model railroad in the basement... eventually.

Save the tie , it will forever tie you , your Gramps , and the house together .

[Jbub]

Save the tie , it will forever tie you , your Gramps , and the house together .

It's a nice sentiment, but the thing was so rotted it wasn't worth it. What's interesting though is the burn marks on the rail side of the tie. It's not grease or creosote.