I’ll start off the week with a short video of my completed TT in use.
That’s some outstanding modeling and a great video, Curt. Well done!
My I1sa with a coal drag passing through the yard. DJ.
!(http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm237/GrampysTrains/I1sa with coal drag/P1050448.jpg)
Thanks DJ. Coming from someone with your modeling ability means a lot to me.
Curt : Very nice video. … DJ: I like that photo.
Here are 2 SD24’s with a dynamometer car. ( … and a Pennsy boxcar for the PRR nuts on board)
wow 2 great pics and a great video to start WPF, good job fellas
The beginnings of another custom Leased unit.
Wanted the BN orange-face scheme like on some of their test SD50’s, & applied it to a Kato white-face model.
This is a picture That was in my local news paper In Gloucester Ma.
Well, I, er, uh, tried a different weathering technique (this is supposed to be FUN, right?)…
Took a cotton ball, dampened it with 70% rubbing alcohol and wiped down the sides to fade and streak the lettering. The I got out the fine tip sharpie pens and tried to do some “tagging”. Also tried some “rust spots”. Not quite what I expected, but I don’t think it’s bad either…
Gidday all,good stuff as per usual. Here’s ex- New Zealand Government Railway, Ww 644, 4-6-4T, built at the NZR Hillside Workshop in 1915, getting steam up at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway.
Have a good one.
Cheers,the Bear.
love the turntable Curt nice modeling always wanted one but just no space
here’s an updated video of my car puller in operation
I found that separating the wheels that make the drum and letting the thread wrap on the smaller axle
between them
slowed the pull down to a realistic speed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5CY0UE-3A8&lr=1&feature=results_video
sorry don’t know how to make it a clickable link
No prob, we fix quick-like [:)]
thanks so much
i need to learn how to do that so i can make the link to my website in my sig line clickable also
If you are using Internet Explorer all you have to do is hit the space bar at the end and IE will make it clickable.
thanks looks like that works
Been continuing to install Bullfrogs on my Free-moN staging yard module.
Also got all four shelves installed, to protect the knobs and to provide a non-layout surface for our Powercab and iPhone throttles:
Also been watching my daughter bust out her mad MR skillz as she builds a diorama of the BFG’s cave:
She got a blast (not a jolt) out of using the Banananator static grass applicator.
Keep up the groovy work guys!
Always a pleasure to see.
My picture for this weekend is of my G scale model of the Santa Fe station in Riverside California. The building is a little over 9 feet in length and was built after taking measurements from the actual structure in Riverside.
I started on some BN F-units. Buying a full ABBA set of the newer RTR ones (the Genesis ones would be nice to have) would cost an arm and a leg. So I decided to make my own using some Stewarts. I have an ABBA set of shells, and 2 chassis (1 powered, 1 dummy) already and am only in about 70 bucks. Best part, I get to have Fs with snow plows.
Here I’m test-fitting parts from the Details West kit for F-units (not the one for the highliners shells, but the older one). On the F9s the previous owner cut the rear doors off. So I took the Details west door and Striker plate and modified them to fit the stewart shell. The test is on the end that the end door wasn’t cut off. I figure adding a piece of styrene the thickness of the shell to fill the gap from the cut-out doors and using the Details west doors and striker plates all around would look good. I would of used Highliners shells, but I want to keep this cheap because I still have a GP5 to finish building, 2 C425s that I need to make new fuel tanks for, and I’m still in college.
The F9A will recieve the same mods, but I have to add a lower headlight. The pilot on the F9A is buggered up to, so I’ll add a snowplow pilot and it’ll still be prototypical.
The set will be BN 824 (F9A), BN ??? (F9B), BN 737 (F7B), and BN 668 (F7A).
The 824 is one of only a couple F9s with plows, and there are quite a few good pictures of it on rrpictures archive
The 737 looks like a late phase F3B, but is labeled as an F7B. The portholes on this unit are also plated over. This makes use of a late-phase F3B shell I have
The 668 is one of the ex-GN F7s that has both dynamic and the pilot plow (I like the look of the plow). There are ex-NP units that are similar, but they have lower headlights.
As for ???, I haven’t choosen a prototype F9B to make it… [
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I started on some BN F-units. Buying a full ABBA set of the newer RTR ones (the Genesis ones would be nice to have) would cost an arm and a leg. So I decided to make my own using some Stewarts. I have an ABBA set of shells, and 2 chassis (1 powered, 1 dummy) already and am only in about 70 bucks. Best part, I get to have Fs with snow plows.
Here I’m test-fitting parts from the Details West kit for F-units (not the one for the highliners shells, but the older one). On the F9s the previous owner cut the rear doors off. So I took the Details west door and Striker plate and modified them to fit the stewart shell. The test is on the end that the end door wasn’t cut off. I figure adding a piece of styrene the thickness of the shell to fill the gap from the cut-out doors and using the Details west doors and striker plates all around would look good. I would of used Highliners shells, but I want to keep this cheap because I still have a GP5 to finish building, 2 C425s that I need to make new fuel tanks for, and I’m still in college.
The F9A will recieve the same mods, but I have to add a lower headlight. The pilot on the F9A is buggered up to, so I’ll add a snowplow pilot and it’ll still be prototypical.
The set will be BN 824 (F9A), BN ??? (F9B), BN 737 (F7B), and BN 668 (F7A).
The 824 is one of only a couple F9s with plows, and there are quite a few good pictures of it on rrpictures archive
The 737 looks like a late phase F3B, but is labeled as an F7B. The portholes on this unit are also plated over. This makes use of a late-phase F3B shell I have
The 668 is one of the ex-GN F7s that has both dynamic and the pilot plow (I like the look of the plow). There are ex-NP units t
I’m don’t get it. Do you mean the photos of the prototypes, the cut ends on the 2 F9s, or the 4 shells I’m starting with?
He means the two photos you posted of the work on the door. They didn’t show up because of a missing command line parameter. He quoted the post and fixed the bad parameter so the photos show up.