Gidday Folks, well its Friday evening here, looks like another frost tonight. Thoughts to those sweltering or affected by fires.
Nothing spectacular from me, just finished assembling three Accurail kits.
Have a Good One Folks. [:D]
Cheers,the Bear.
JaBear: Good looking cars - Being from the western U.S. ,I don’t think I’d ever seen “The route of courteous service” before. Thanks for starting things off.
'Looks like my pickup driver has some time to kill…
Mike
JaBear!
Thanks for starting the thread.
I had hoped to be able to show pictures of my White 3000 cab over tractor with all the lights working. I had the headlights, tail lights, roof top lights and front signal lights all wired with LEDs. The problem was that I kept breaking the LED leads (I was using super fine magnet wire). I had to replace two different LEDs three times each because of broken connections, and the final insult was having one of the front signal lights let out its smoke for no reason that I can determine. I should also add that I was not pleased with the brightness of the fibre optics used to light the roof lights.
That did it. I am not about to be ruled by the weaknesses of magnet wire, so I tore the whole thing apart, scrapped all the LEDs and I am about to redo the whole mess with 30 ga. Kynak single strand wire which is what I used previously to illuminate a whole bunch of vehicles with great success.
Please don’t hold your breath for the improved result. I am still so frustrated that I will have to give it a little time before I restart the project.
Any one else been there, done that?
I know that this is a little off topic - sorry.
Dave
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Some shots from my layout.
Bear,
Thanks for posting. The 6- and 8-sided wood boxcars are one of my favorite Accurail offerings. [Y][8D] I just LOVE the texture of the exterior.
Pretty soon I should be receiving a 3-pack kit of Accurail PRR wood-side twin hoppers from my LHS. I’m really looking forward to putting them together and seeing them on my layout. I’ll try and post pictures when I get them done.
Stay warm…
Tom
JaBear
suggest you change the title to “Weekend Photo Fun July 6-8”
Nothing finished this week I have been spending a lot of quality time building a Moloco GATC RBL.
This is the kit contents, gives you all the different trucks, underframe components etc. to match the prototype you are building.
The underbody major details, with underframe, in may case a Keystone cushioning system, the PS Hydrocushining System is also included if your prototype requires it.
Ends and sides all glued to the underbody, the ends have locator pins so they align properly with the underbody and the sides fit in between.
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A left to right view of the underbody details, including the best cushion coupler pockets I have ever seen, Brake rodding and guides, air lines from the reservoir to the ABD valve and to the brake cylinder.
Now that I am done with the underbody I will be moving to the end and side details.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J [2c]
I’ve been working on restoring my childhood(1980’s) Mantua.
Here is a progression over the past few days. It’s not done yet, but it’s moving along quickly.
Pulled from storage years ago after fifteen years in storage.
Stripped with details added.
Primed and painted.
Gloss clear added.
Decals and flat clear added.
I ordered a new pilot from yardbirdtrains so that should help even more to spruce it up.
I thought I’d throw in my scratchbuilt strip mall.
Jerry, nice strip mall. That’s not something you see on a layout very often but is ever present in our modern world. Of course, to be accurate, you should probably have half of it empty with ‘for lease’ signs![:P]
Jerry,
Is that a AMC Pacer, third from the left? Haven’t seen one of those in a while.
I agree with Corey. You did do a great job on the strip mall. [Y]
Tom
Wow what a nice start to this weekend’s photo fun. Everybody seems a little busy on their layouts. Great job everyone. I thought I would post this one to keep it going.
Sam
Nice work everybdoy!
Here are a couple of older photos of my kit-bashed diner-parlor-observation car. Silver Fountain. It is used on short passenger trains (pike-sized).
I have one of those too; it’s a diecast from Fresh Cherries / Motormax
Stone bridge over Stoney Creek. DJ.
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It’s a Pacer all right. I have two of them. One is green, the other is yellow and is done up as a rusty wreck.
A scratchbuilt container ship on the club layout. The hull is wood planking covered with fiberglass. The superstructure is styrene. The crane to the right is a diecast replica of a Gottwall harbor crane. I still have to built a container attachment to it. The boat is the work of 5 or 6 members of the club.
WOW! A lot of terrific pic’s so far…
Corey: Great job on that old Mantua! Looking at the first pic,then the last,I would never guess it’s the same engine.How does it run?
I messed around with some photo-editing software:
Before:
After:
Mike
Mike, it doesn’t have a motor in it yet. I bought a replacement can motor that will be installed after I get the new pilot I ordered. Thanks for the compliment.
Nice pictures by the way! Is that your own layout or a club?