Weekend Update 12/9/18

[up1950s]

https://thedieselshop.us/What.HTML

[learmoia]

Could be Iowa Traction locomotive.. but it looks like a home brew diesel locomotive for a traction railroad..

[daniel_leavitt2000]

https://thedieselshop.us/What.HTML

"Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long. Fortunately."

[Dave V]

[Mark W]

Spent much of the week packaging and sending out 3D Prints.  Turns out, making the prints is the easy part; getting them packaged and boxed is the hard part! 
I had to put a hold on accepting new orders, and will finally have the backlog fully shipped in the morning tomorrow.  (Appreciate the patience everyone! Future batches won't be posted until they're printed AND packaged.  )


I was able to spend a little time on the next model.


https://i.imgur.com/iqUcn19.jpg

[Chris333]

Crap man! Is that  N or HO?

[hegstad1]

I shifted from the Missoula depot this week to the freight house.  It was a brick and corrugated metal structure built in 1948.  It's a bit difficult to see the details in white styrene and poor lighting.

[Mark W]

Crap man! Is that  N or HO?

It is N Scale 

[ednadolski]

Weedend Update 12/9/18

What is a "Weedend"?


Ed

[Cajonpassfan]

What is a "Weedend"?


Ed

Roundup? Seems to cause cancer though...

[peteski]

Spent much of the week packaging and sending out 3D Prints.  Turns out, making the prints is the easy part; getting them packaged and boxed is the hard part! 
I had to put a hold on accepting new orders, and will finally have the backlog fully shipped in the morning tomorrow.  (Appreciate the patience everyone! Future batches won't be posted until they're printed AND packaged.  )


I was able to spend a little time on the next model.

That is an unfortunate result of running a successful model business.  Quoting what I said in this thread (which you started):
Suddenly your leisurely hobby becomes a business.  You now have customers and provide a timely service.  You have to accept payments and start shipping packages.  Nothing like Shapways (since they take care of the business part for you).  The time you spend on the printing business will eat into your hobby time.

There is nothing wrong with a hobby becoming a business, and I'm not discouraging you from doing it, but what you're experiencing was an expected side effect. 

[Cajonpassfan]

Well, I spent a couple of days of my free time to work on the backdrops around Keenbrook. I find screening out the detail in photoshop emphasizes color, hue and texture. It also helps me select colors of foliage on the layout adjacent to the backdrops. I sent it to the printer today, 30' lineal feet of it; keeping my fingers crossed. Samples below...
Otto

[wazzou]

I'd like a donkey.  . No really, I would.

[Chris333]

3D prints!

[carlso]

  Very nice Chris.