Weekend Update 3/15/20

[Erik W]

They're both resin kits with photo etched brass details from Orange Hobby, a company in Shanghai, China.  I was researching a vacation I went on last fall to Taiwan (totally awesome country by the way), and stumbled upon a photo of the YTL-45 Taiwanese tugboat kit.  It's a great kit, but I fabricated about 60 pieces myself out of brass, styrene, and the rope was made from .006" copper fly tying wire I ordered from an online fishing store.  The crew were resin castings from a company in Normandy, France.  The flag halyard is .002" fly tying monofilament I found from a company in Japan.

You can see a lot more photos here of the build and the finished diorama:  https://modelshipworld.com/topic/22995-ytl-45-taiwanese-navy-tugboat-by-erik-w-finished-1350-scale/

I have to say, after building the 1/350 scale tugboat, the HOn3 caboose seems enormous.

Erik

[Cajonpassfan]

The tugboat detail is simply amazing🙀

[peteski]

The tugboat detail is simply amazing🙀

Wow!  I agree!

[SP-Wolf]

@Cajonpassfan

Hey Otto, your back drop project is coming along wonderfully.

Wolf

[Steveruger45]

Yes yes yes.

[up1950s]

I don't know , that pencil could be very oversized . But even if so , that tug is exquisite if it is a yard long .

[VonRyan]

Yesterday was spent doing some 1:1 tasks up at Pine Creek Railroad.

Helped lower a Plymouth off a “hospital truck” onto some big cribbing so it can await restoration in a less precarious place.
Measured an ancient door lock in preparation for my trying to find a replacement.
Helped perform a track inspection on one of our grade crossings, which was recently rebuilt by RCC (who did a great job).

No real pictures of the work, so have a reference image of the door hardware:

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[up1950s]

The River Forest Metra station on the UPRR Geneva Subdivision

Terrific , I like the roughness of the grass and light litter about . I would add another detail though , some half filled wire garbage cans next to the pillars at the car underpass  and the walkway entrance to the station ,

[glakedylan]

this week's results
Shapeways PRR L1 FXD shell
1 light coat of primer
2 coats of DGLE
all acrylics
and this is what I have?


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needless to say, very disappointed
do not know what caused this
i know it cannot be fixed or undone


the part that pi$$es off the most
is the money spent
and now a tender shell on its way
from RLW and no boiler shell


oh well...


Gary

[jpwisc]

this week's results
Shapeways PRR L1 FXD shell
1 light coat of primer
2 coats of DGLE
all acrylics
and this is what I have?


needless to say, very disappointed
do not know what caused this
i know it cannot be fixed or undone


the part that pi$$es off the most
is the money spent
and now a tender shell on its way
from RLW and no boiler shell

oh well...
Gary

Boil a cup of water, put it in for a few seconds and gently flex it back to shape. Run some cool water over it to help it hold the new shape.

[propmeup1]

When you warm it up may have to bend it in the other direction some. I'm not sure if the 3d printed items have memory like resin does.  Take You Time..     If it makes you feel any better I trashed a $37 Reading T1 3D shell with a Dremel by grinding away a tad bit on the inside to get it to fit better over the frame.  The burr bit grabbed and i was showered in 3D print material. I had no idea how it grabbed hold but it pretty much  pulverized itself to not much left then the smoke box face and part of the cab roof. $37 gone in an instant and nothing to do but use ever foul word i know and loud enough for the neighbors to think i was torturing someone.    You can laugh, I won't mind.

[altohorn25]

I'm as far as I can get on this until I get decals made.  1948 Milw baggage for the Olympian Hiawatha (kato set).  This is a Skytop Models shell (Bill Denton).  Added grab irons as appropriate and painted.  The trucks and diaphrams are from an American Limited core kit; they are not the correct Nystrom trucks, but they don't look too bad.  Shell includes the body shell as well as the floor.  Grabs are gold metal models and paints are as follows (all water based):  Polyscale Milw Orange, Model Flex Milw Maroon, Testors Flat Black.

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[C855B]

When you warm it up may have to bend it in the other direction some. I'm not sure if the 3d printed items have memory like resin does.  Take You Time..     If it makes you feel any better I trashed a $37 Reading T1 3D shell with a Dremel by grinding away a tad bit on the inside to get it to fit better over the frame.  The burr bit grabbed and i was showered in 3D print material. I had no idea how it grabbed hold but it pretty much  pulverized itself to not much left then the smoke box face and part of the cab roof. $37 gone in an instant and nothing to do but use ever foul word i know and loud enough for the neighbors to think i was torturing someone.    You can laugh, I won't mind.

I'll raise you a $80 C855B shell unrecoverable due to totally botched paint work - you can't strip 'em - and a $80 C855 shell with broken-off lifting eyes... too fine and too handling-vulnerable after gluing to even paint. :~(

[wazzou]

and this is what I have?

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needless to say, very disappointed
do not know what caused this.


Gary

Low water on the crown sheet?   

[Bryn]

The start of my next project in N scale