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Weekend Update 11/1/15
« on: October 30, 2015, 07:24:50 PM »
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Sorry for the date error folks
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Re: Weekend Update 10/25/15
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2015, 09:39:49 PM »
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Drove the ROW another quarter mile with the help of the Gandy Dancers.



We're now squarely into the city limits of Morrow, OH!

@mighalpern also got 16 turnouts wired up to DCC control, and I mapped them and configured the mainline turnouts in JMRI. More in the build thread.
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Re: Weekend Update 10/25/15
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2015, 09:43:38 PM »
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Not quite finished yet. Still need to add handrails and glass. This is a Shapeways FM H10-44 shell on an Atlas VO-1000 mechanism equipped with a LokSound Select Micro decoder with "sugar cube" speaker in cab.




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Re: Weekend Update 10/25/15
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2015, 10:20:43 PM »
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This project has been on the back burner since the F40 came out (hence the no ditchlight version).  I had proto photos of one unit that had retained all the vents along the roofline for a little while, but now I've lost them, so I punted and decided to just go with the version where the vent over the roll up door is filled in.  Hoping to have this done by Trainfest....

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Re: Weekend Update 10/25/15
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2015, 10:31:44 PM »
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Bill- That is spectacular Milwaukee Road modeling.  Just WOW.
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Re: Weekend Update 10/25/15
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2015, 10:54:00 PM »
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Quote from: skytop35 on October 30, 2015, 09:43:38 PM
Not quite finished yet. Still need to add handrails and glass. This is a Shapeways FM H10-44 shell on an Atlas VO-1000 mechanism equipped with a LokSound Select Micro decoder with "sugar cube" speaker in cab.




Bill

Great modelling.  A few years back you had a shell of a FM switcher.  The rear of the cab was crudely rendered, maybe an artifact of the printing. Is this FM that shell?
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Re: Weekend Update 10/25/15
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2015, 12:46:53 AM »
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Wow!!!  That is a beauty!!!  You gonna be offering this shell?
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Re: Weekend Update 10/25/15
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2015, 01:29:03 AM »
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Not a great photo but I made some good progress on my BCR locos.



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Re: Weekend Update 10/25/15
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2015, 01:29:24 AM »
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The date of the post is off, no?
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Re: Weekend Update 10/25/15
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2015, 01:52:32 AM »
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Quote from: 3DTrains on October 31, 2015, 01:29:24 AM
The date of the post is off, no?

It sure was , thanks .
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Re: Weekend Update 11/1/15
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2015, 02:01:54 AM »
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Skytop35 " Bill- That is spectacular Milwaukee Road modeling.  Just WOW ". +1 . Sir it has not gone unnoticed that it is without all those Shapeways lines of destine . Do you have a trick , was it OEM that way , or did you  sand/scrape your way success .
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Re: Weekend Update 11/1/15
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2015, 05:41:06 AM »
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Thanks all, glad you like the FM so far. It is a Shapeways shell printed in FXD and not going to be a Skytop Models casting. I first ordered this shell in FUD some years ago but was not satisfied with that material. FXD still has the visible "banding" or "print lines" but they can be removed with careful sanding. I used plain old modeling sandpaper on the roof to smooth it out. I glued the sandpaper to various sizes of styrene strips to get around the doors and other details. I worked slowly over several days until I had enough and I was generally satisfied.

I also went old school and used Scalecoat paint. My thinking was it might help cover up the remaining "print lines" and "fuzzy ends" that my sanding missed since it's a thicker layer of paint then the Tru-Color I now normally use.
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Re: Weekend Update 11/1/15
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2015, 07:52:16 AM »
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I need to finish mine too. Bill, your FM looks fantastic!! Your photography is much much better than mine as well !!!

Randy
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Re: Weekend Update 11/1/15
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2015, 08:29:53 AM »
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Setting up blast furnace after it being in storage for a couple years


Rehabbing high line, some components were out of square


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Re: Weekend Update 11/1/15
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2015, 08:59:43 AM »
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I like your version of the blast furnace ..
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