Looks like Bear is really working at lot this week, so I guess I will start it off this week!
By the way kudos to all who participated last week, one of the best weeks in the last few!
I will show my progress on the Hot Coil Car, I have stagnated a little bit as I have to make the bends in the main airline in three dimensions, so I have to think out where every bend goes before I go and do it. Although I got a couple of steps done before that one.
Here I have installed some Kadee #158 Couplers in the boxes and spot glued them together for the installation on the car.
After checking the coupler height and installing a few shims I glued the coupler boxes to the frames and the cover piece on top of the coupler box.
Like some other people while waiting for glue to dry etc. I started work on another project that has been sitting around. I have a old Stewart U25b Diesel that I wanted to do for the Pennsylvania complete with the Trainphone Antennas as delivered.
Some different views of the engine after installing Utah Pacific GE Lift Rings on the long hood and nose of the unit, a couple of grab irons, the Signal Box in front of the engineer on the walkway and the Cal-Scale Antenna Supports on the roof of the cab and along the sides of the long hood.
Still to come, drop steps, coupler lift bar and other detail parts before painting.
Here’s the finished Wheeling boxcar. Started as an accurail undec kit.
And here is the CITY tower I showed last week with a porch added this week. All I need to do is some touch up work, the under roof arches, and weather the roof
Remember, this was my first project I did from scratch, there weren’t even any plabd so I had to use photographs.
Nice work everyone. Jimmy, that’s a fine job for a first scratchbuild. It grows on you, as do your skills.
Not a lot of photogenic stuff. I’ve been refining a couple of stretches of track that are a little rough. Tedious work. And setting up JMRI to add used iPhone/iPad devices as wireless throttles. So here’s a few from the recent past that didn’t get posted earlier IIRC.
A pair of views of the Durango Yard.
Up on the old Silverton RR, a double-header passes through Chattanooga.
Another great start to the weekend. I returned to teaching this year, after 3 years of retirement, so I haven’t really done a lot on the model railroad this year–mainly re-doing some scenery slowly but surely.
However, last week, my oldest articulated turned fifty—bought it in 1965, just after coming out of the Air Force. So here she is, still running like a champ and pulling like a herd of oxen. I’ve done some cosmetic face-lifting over the years, and a new motor and a little re-gearing, but basically she’s the same big lady that came out of the Akane box when I was young and had hair, lol! Here she is pulling a freight up Yuba Pass. I think she’ll probably outlast me.
A couple of days ago, I received my HOn30 BullAnt drive from Hollywood Foundry. This is the actual size - no Photoshop. It is 1.6 inches long, and DCC ready.
As I progress with this project, I will start a thread showing how things are going together.
Start of a long journey! I finally have one sheet of foam board down and started hand laying siding ties this week. This is a project about 40 years in the making.
I’m new 'round here and mostly to model railroading in general. I started a layout a few years ago, it didn’t work well, I got frustrated and stopped. Recently I accepted the fact that I’m going to do a lot of things wrong as I go and started up again. To keep things a little on the cheaper side starting out I’m working on an N-scale diorama using supplies I’ve had lying around.
Just painted the fascia with some sample paint we got when redoing one room in the house.
To save money, I went back in time and bought the bridge kit on sale…
Ok… maybe it’s actually a kit that my grandfather had and never used. I don’t know the actual age of it. My grandfather passed 20 years ago and I know he had it for a long time before that.
Yeah and the irony is that Friday was a public holiday, so this is the 2nd 3 day weekend I’ve worked in the last fortnight.[sigh]
But looking at all the Really Good Stuff has perked me up no end.[:D] Jimmy, the close up photo is a great tool for finding flaws in ones efforts, that said, well done [tup]; hope you enjoyed it enough to have a crack at future scratch building projects.
Early night for me,
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Bear, I’ve built stuff before only using drawings found in books. So I guess you could say, this was my first one built where I ended up doing the drawing to build from. Yeah, I am going to do more scratch building in the future.
That’s really pretty darned good for a first shot. It’ll grow on you. I have a few of my first creations around and they’re pretty humble compared to your structure.
Scratchbuilding is a little like riding a bike. It sure seems intimidating at first – that bike is so big and you’re hardly able to reach the pedals and hold onto the handles at the same time. Now that you’re upright and cruising, it’ll only get better.
Another analogy is the scratchbuilding is a lot like making sour dough bread. Once you’ve got that yeast starter going, it’s pretty easy to keep baking. You probably had a scrap box before, but now that you have leftovers from this project to add to them, you start looking at it in a different way. Hmmm, what could I make with this?!?![swg]
Remember, this was my first project I did from scratch, there weren’t even any plabd so I had to use photographs.
There’s plenty of work yet to do, but it’s finally looking like it may turn out OK.
