Weekend Update 3/16/25

[eja]

Loved "Overture to The Cowboys" as your music.  Performed it last weekend with the Imperial Valley Symphony.

[Sumner]

A person on another board was looking for wheels/tires that he could use to create a model of the A-Team's van (never watched the show myself). He posted a picture and I spent about 30 minutes with Fusion and came up with the following.
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Really small and most detail you can't see unless you take a picture and blow it up....








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..... The overall diameter is .143"/3.6mm or 24 N scale inches, maybe 3-4 inches smaller than the real wheel/tire?
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Sumner

[Jim Starbuck]

I finished reworking the Heil plant Davenport 35 tonner by replacing the entire drive. I was glad to have it present at the  Madison show last month but the running characteristics weren’t up to snuff.
Enter the Toma drive as exampled by @Chris333. It runs as it should now and I’m thrilled to have operating siderods per the prototype.

[garethashenden]

Jim that looks so much better with the siderods going!

[Chris333]

Hell yeah! 

[apudelek]

Busy month here in the Twin Cities...  With Spring Fitout imminent on the Great Lakes, it is time to wrap up winter hobby projects.

I have been working on several Kato Budd cars, re-decaling this particular pair to match the Seaboard Air Line's Pre-War Budd coaches.

SAL 6208
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SAL 6234
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Here are both coaches together:
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These would fit a nice role either on the Silver Meteor or on Train 143 westbound out of NY Penn Station, the combined PRR Arlington/SAL Palmland/SOU Pelican.

[bman]

Busy month here in the Twin Cities...  With Spring Fitout imminent on the Great Lakes, it is time to wrap up winter hobby projects.

I have been working on several Kato Budd cars, re-decaling this particular pair to match the Seaboard Air Line's Pre-War Budd coaches.

SAL 6208
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SAL 6234
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Here are both coaches together:
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These would fit a nice role either on the Silver Meteor or on Train 143 westbound out of NY Penn Station, the combined PRR Arlington/SAL Palmland/SOU Pelican.

Mind if I ask where you found the decals? I've a couple Kato Budd coaches that need to be either Seaboard or Seabord Coast Line.

[up1950s]

I finished reworking the Heil plant Davenport 35 tonner by replacing the entire drive. I was glad to have it present at the  Madison show last month but the running characteristics weren’t up to snuff.
Enter the Toma drive as exampled by @Chris333. It runs as it should now and I’m thrilled to have operating siderods per the prototype.

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So slow yet so smooth over that turnout !!!!!

My hope is that a manufacturer contacts you and you and them can come up with an agreement so mass production can begin before my ticket gets punched.

[up1950s]

A person on another board was looking for wheels/tires that he could use to create a model of the A-Team's van (never watched the show myself). He posted a picture and I spent about 30 minutes with Fusion and came up with the following.
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Really small and most detail you can't see unless you take a picture and blow it up....








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..... The overall diameter is .143"/3.6mm or 24 N scale inches, maybe 3-4 inches smaller than the real wheel/tire?
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Sumner

Outstanding detail . Is it possible to do 1950s - through ? plain Jane steal auto rims for custom scrap loads ? I would buy enough to fill many gondolas and piles of scrap metal .

[Iain]

I'm also interested in doing some of those seaboard coaches



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parrallel play with my best friend today; while she was drawing fantasy transit maps, i was doing some upgrades to the frame of this n scale intermountain tank car frame.  replaced molded on grabs with bronze wire, drilled a bunch of holes for other details, and body mounted mt truscale couplers

[dandopinski]

Just about done the LPG tanks.







And starting on some Sulphur tanks

[bbussey]

Got inspired finally to pick up the NH County-series baggage-lounge cars this week after finalizing the 3D prints a year ago. Finished all exterior paint today, minus some touch-up and detailing work. Stirrups (modified GMM) and diaphragms (stock Rapido) installed tonight. Still a lot of work to do but at least it’s moving forward.

[Dwight in Toronto]

This week I started body mounted couplers for the exReading Royal Hudson cars.



And I’ve been working on modules that I plan to bring to a train show in two weeks. I’ll be bringing all 28ft of my modules. I had a running railroad for about 3 weeks! 

I’ve been painting the sides black and fixing some small alignment issues/filling holes in preparation for ballast. I’ll be working on the ballast until the show.





At some point I need to see if I can fit them all in the van!

Craig

@craigolio1  -  what train show is it that you are going to be participating in?  Particulars?

[apudelek]

Mind if I ask where you found the decals? I've a couple Kato Budd coaches that need to be either Seaboard or Seabord Coast Line.

These Seaboard decals were from K4 Decals.  I have had great success with them.  I don't think they have SCL passenger decals (as of yet, they came out with the SAL ones just a few months ago). They are very active in additions to their catalog, and I will frequently peruse their "What's New" section and I'm always surprised to see just how much they have added in a short period of time.

As a note, the Budd coaches built directly for the SAL (as opposed to later being bought used from FEC) were numbered 6200 to 6234.  They're not prototype (I think the CB&Q coaches are shorter), but they make a hell of a stand-in, and I think the trucks are correct after looking at photos of some remaining Seaboard equipment, but I'm not an expert.  The K4 Decals sheet also had the numbering set up to be able to cut out 6208 and 6234 as singular groups, which made the numbering very simple.

MicroScale does have combined SCL/SAL streamlined passenger car decal sheets, as an FYI:

https://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=fc56f274642163cf278225e938015a83&Screen=PROD&Store_Code=MD&Product_Code=60-1380&Category_Code=SCL

[Dwight in Toronto]

Got inspired finally to pick up the NH County-series baggage-lounge cars this week after finalizing the 3D prints a year ago. Finished all exterior paint today, minus some touch-up and detailing work. Stirrups (modified GMM) and diaphragms (stock Rapido) installed tonight. Still a lot of work to do but at least it’s moving forward.

Bryan - how did you source those “stock Rapido” diaphragms?
Was that something that you ordered from them directly?