Weekend Update 11/18/12

[DKS]

Yeah dude, nice going. And all I asked was an innocent question....
Otto

And all I did was make what I felt was a fairly impractical suggestion... and the (virtual) ink wasn't even dry yet...

Richie... run out of steam locomotives to UP-ify?

[peteski]

And all I did was make what I felt was a fairly impractical suggestion... and the (virtual) ink wasn't even dry yet...

A very simple solution which yielded a drastic visual improvement and yet, it still appears to be sturdy (it is still a metal stanchion).

Sweet!

[Puddington]

Looks like they make hockey sticks.  Don Cherry's family business?

Winner, winner, chicken dinner...........



"It's a beauty....eh" 

[PAL_Houston]

What a great photo!  Where is it?  And that is a pretty tight radius on the lead track.

[M.C. Fujiwara]

Looks a lot like Portland, OR.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=portland,+or&hl=en&ll=45.529136,-122.668388&spn=0.002891,0.005284&sll=38.091337,-122.205048&sspn=0.587964,1.352692&hnear=Portland,+Multnomah,+Oregon&t=h&z=18

[M.C. Fujiwara]

Was raining yesterday (and today)(and will through the weekend) so best I could do was haul the module as close to the open garage door as possible for some shots to show how both sections work together:













Lots of little details still to add, but it's nice to have a module "done" with most of the scenes in so I don't have to keep explaining to viewers what "will be" there.

Now to fit the endplates to it doesn't take up as much room in my car 

Thanks for sharing all your groovy work this week!

[davefoxx]

M.C.,

Looks like a great opportunity to build and a place to park a work train.

DFF

[HuskerN]

A little more progress on my forklift project:

I was able to surgically remove the operator from the seat and steering column casting so that I could replicate a parked machine.  I'll put an operator in the raised versions for more of an action scene where something is getting moved or loaded.



HuskerN

www.nscaleaddiction.blogspot.com

[M.C. Fujiwara]

M.C.,

Looks like a great opportunity to build and a place to park a work train.

DFF

During the last show I parked my wreck crane train there:



But it would be fun to build a dedicated work train with building materials and maybe some crew cabins.
Good idea!

[up1950s]

Richie... run out of steam locomotives to UP-ify?

Naaa , I just put UP 819 in the ICU ( see Kato driver slippage thread ) . Once it gets on the normal process of completion conveyer belt I will post it back here on the WUD . I needed some forum collective knowledge to mull over with a problem I caused .

[kalbert]

Finished the shell for my CNW BU41 slug. In keeping with my signature look, I way overdid the weathering. Someday I'll heed my own "less is more" advice...

[up1950s]

I think that weathered slug looks great .

[wm3798]

It is indeed Portland.  I shot this in April 2010 when I was there.  Naturally, since it was me, there were no trains and the weather sucked.

Lee

[seusscaboose]

Lee
I remember you posting that shot and was goign to post it...
you beat me to it
EP

[M.C. Fujiwara]

It is indeed Portland.  I shot this in April 2010 when I was there.  Naturally, since it was me, there were no trains and the weather sucked.

Lee

What's crazy is that that inner spur wraps around the silo, over a small trestle, and to the ship-loading dock.
Think it translates into a 4"-5" or so radius in N.
I've heard the trackmobile push hoppers around it: the squealing carries quite a distance!
(almost as far as the barking of the sea lions at Pier 39 in SF!)