Weekend Update 2014/09/07

[mark dance]

This took 1 hour to make...any feedback on the grass would be helpful. I realize various lengths help (only have 4mm grass)... and I didn't lay any bushes or shrubbery yet...will place a few for effect. Any other ideas for this tiny scene?

feedback: looks great!  Very much like tall grass.  For a wilder look sprinkle on and work in a bit of ground foam afterwards. This will cause the 3d nature of the grass to really "pop".  Nice work!

md

[nuno81291]

feedback: looks great!  Very much like tall grass.  For a wilder look sprinkle on and work in a bit of ground foam afterwards. This will cause the 3d nature of the grass to really "pop".  Nice work!

md

I like the idea, do you mean maybe a like colored ground foam, an earth color, or maybe something similar but dull to sort of mute the brighter grass tones? I also was thinking about playing around with some chalks... Regardless I was pleased with the $5 applicator! Thank you!

[Mark W]

It's been years since I last scratch built anything.

I sat down and started this little freight transfer while watching back to back Monday night football.

[mark dance]

I like the idea, do you mean maybe a like colored ground foam, an earth color, or maybe something similar but dull to sort of mute the brighter grass tones? I also was thinking about playing around with some chalks... Regardless I was pleased with the $5 applicator! Thank you!

I think you can use pretty much anything. I use various shades of ground foam, normally dark green to represent vines or weeds. Or ground up dry leaves.

Md

[Iain]

Some N scale NS things got worked on.  Lots more to do on the wood coach.

[mmagliaro]

Some N scale NS things got worked on.  Lots more to do on the wood coach.

Hey there....
How did you make that coach???  Those windows, with the arched sections above them, are exactly what I have been searching
for for about a year to make some heavyweight SP&S style 1930s-1940s coaches.   Did you make a mold?  An etch?

-- Max

[Rich_S]

Anyone else get started with this set? 
Lee

Lee,
   I did not get started with that exact set, but I did receive this set as a Christmas present in 1972.



The train sets did include a power pack and track made by Lima of Italy. The train sets were made by Lima of Italy for AHM. Compared with what we have today, these sets were stone age. On my NH F7 only the rear truck was powered. I'm not sure when you set was released, but the one thing I have noticed is the packaging changed during the production run of these sets. I believe there were three different locomotive options for these sets, one was a GP30, one was a F7 and the third option was a odd tank style steam locomotive. Most of the sets contained 3 to 4 pieces of rolling stock. There has been a factory sealed Reading GP30 set on ebay for the last couple of months. Personally the $99.95 asking price is a bit high.

[PGE_Modeller]

Hey there....
How did you make that coach???  Those windows, with the arched sections above them, are exactly what I have been searching
for for about a year to make some heavyweight SP&S style 1930s-1940s coaches.   Did you make a mold?  An etch?

-- Max

+1     I need something like that as the basis for a former Barney & Smith built  Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic sleeper that became the Pacific Great Eastern's "GARIBALDI".  It also looks as if, shortened, it would make some neat ex-Oregon Electric coaches that came to the PGE in the 1930s and lasted until 1960.

Cheers

[Iain]

Hey there....
How did you make that coach???  Those windows, with the arched sections above them, are exactly what I have been searching
for for about a year to make some heavyweight SP&S style 1930s-1940s coaches.   Did you make a mold?  An etch?

-- Max

Drew it up and had it printed.

+1     I need something like that as the basis for a former Barney & Smith built  Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic sleeper that became the Pacific Great Eastern's "GARIBALDI".  It also looks as if, shortened, it would make some neat ex-Oregon Electric coaches that came to the PGE in the 1930s and lasted until 1960.

Cheers

If y'all can get me research materials/plans/photos, we might be able to talk.

[Paradise275]

davefoxx, is that flooring foam underlay you have on top of the blue foam board? Why do you use it?
Does it reduce noise resonated by the foam? What do you glue it down with?

Rick

[davefoxx]

Rick,

No, I glue the cork roadbed and track directly to the foam.  I use Loctite Power Grab to glue the foam to the HCD, and I use yellow carpenter's glue to glue the cork roadbed to the foam and the track to the cork.  That's all there is to it.

DFF

[Paradise275]

davidfoxx, does the thin foam work to reduce the vibration noice?
Rick

[davefoxx]

Rick,

I haven't tried another layer of thin foam, but the sound of N scale trains on the 2" foam substrate doesn't bother me as too loud.  The cork roadbed might deaden some of the sound, since it is glued and not nailed.

DFF

[PGE-N°2]

More fun with the Blade Train for me!  Expecting 6 more flats to arrive to add 4 more blades, giving me a 12 blade train.  That's just 1/3rd of the full 36 blade train I'd like to run at the first public Free-moNebraska set up! Realistically, I'll probably only make an 18 count train though. 

Wow! 36 blades?! Even 18 sounds like it would be a lengthy train for a standard layout. Let's hope that's a really big layout they set up, and be sure to take videos of that train for posterity.