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DKS

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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #735 on: March 11, 2019, 01:22:36 PM »
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Looks like you could place a sheet of fine sandpaper on a flat surface and gently slide the bottom of the station around on it until it's true.
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #736 on: March 11, 2019, 01:25:20 PM »
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Quote from: David K. Smith on March 11, 2019, 01:22:36 PM
Looks like you could place a sheet of fine sandpaper on a flat surface and gently slide the bottom of the station around on it until it's true.

...if the base of the depot weren't cardboard that is...   :facepalm:

I like Narrow Gauge Colorado...they make nice stuff and it's very well designed.  But this kit didn't go together as well as I'd hoped either.  At some point I may eat the three figures and get another one and apply all my lessons learned from this one.
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #737 on: March 11, 2019, 02:20:20 PM »
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Quote from: Dave V on March 11, 2019, 01:25:20 PM
...if the base of the depot weren't cardboard that is...

It should still work, using fine sandpaper and very gentle pressure. Cardboard sands surprisingly well.
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #738 on: March 11, 2019, 02:25:08 PM »
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Quote from: David K. Smith on March 11, 2019, 02:20:20 PM
It should still work, using fine sandpaper and very gentle pressure. Cardboard sands surprisingly well.

Good to know!  I would have to pry it off because it's actually pretty well glued on there now.

I'll put it on the to-do list.
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #739 on: March 11, 2019, 02:28:33 PM »
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Get a scale 1x12, run a new base trim, and call it Christmas.

As we like to say in our business, "The trim man will get it..."
You did way more than I would have done.  I would have sunk a drywall screw into the corner with some glue to push the platform back down, back the screw out when the glue sets, then put a flower pot over the hole.

And really, Preiser or Woodland Scenics could make a fortune selling a set of architect and job foremen figures standing around scratching their heads and pointing at bad model failures... :D

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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #740 on: March 11, 2019, 02:30:16 PM »
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In case the platform isn't flat, you may have to scribe the bottom to get it to fit really well.  Use a very sharp pencil and trace from the largest gap around the base, keeping the pencil tip the exact same distance from the platform.  That's the line to sand to.

Alternatively, can you cheat and install a "base molding" to hide the gap.  Just paint it the same color as the body of the building at the bottom and it won't be very visible.  Might look like water table trimwork.

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EDIT: Haha!  Simultaneous post as @wm3798.  Great minds think alike!
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #741 on: March 11, 2019, 02:39:58 PM »
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Quote from: wm3798 on March 11, 2019, 02:28:33 PM
Get a scale 1x12, run a new base trim, and call it Christmas.

As we like to say in our business, "The trim man will get it..."
You did way more than I would have done.  I would have sunk a drywall screw into the corner with some glue to push the platform back down, back the screw out when the glue sets, then put a flower pot over the hole.

Lee

I may just do that!

As for the drywall screw, I tried that first, LOL...  You know what a drywall screw does to 0.020" scribed micro-ply?  It ain't pretty...ain't pretty at all.   :facepalm:
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #742 on: March 11, 2019, 03:10:26 PM »
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A depot on my N scale layout was the same. The platform was flat styrene and the depot had a flat wood base. Looked like it was floating so I put a screw in each end to pull it down. Of course the roof is removable to get in there:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/t95nEjUVCi48RYaE6
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #743 on: March 11, 2019, 03:46:15 PM »
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Quote from: Chris333 on March 11, 2019, 03:10:26 PM
A depot on my N scale layout was the same. The platform was flat styrene and the depot had a flat wood base. Looked like it was floating so I put a screw in each end to pull it down. Of course the roof is removable to get in there:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/t95nEjUVCi48RYaE6

Yeah, the removable roof helps.  This is how this kit is designed:

http://www.narrowgaugecolorado.com/?name=Catalog&mode=i&item=002688

No worries guys.  I'll probably try the base trim trick first.  But right now to the naked eye at normal viewing angles it's no biggie.

I already started work on a turntable for Ridgway so the RGS B&B crews are otherwise obligated.
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #744 on: March 11, 2019, 03:52:48 PM »
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #745 on: March 11, 2019, 05:54:21 PM »
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As long as you’re aware your fellow asshats  :ashat: won’t let this go until you fix it.   :D
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #746 on: March 11, 2019, 06:40:20 PM »
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Quote from: CRL on March 11, 2019, 05:54:21 PM
As long as you’re aware your fellow asshats  :ashat: won’t let this go until you fix it.   :D

They can keep whining into the wind...I'm workin' hard on a tunrtable pit.  I have a layout to build!!!
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #747 on: March 11, 2019, 06:52:59 PM »
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #748 on: March 11, 2019, 07:52:25 PM »
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Today's project is the Kitwood Hill Models Durango turntable:  http://www.kitwoodhillmodels.com/hon3-hon30-65ft-durango-turntable/

The RGS Ridgway turntable was similar in appearance, but was smaller at a mere 50'.  Enough to turn a C-19 2-8-0 but not enough to turn a K-27 2-8-2.  K-27s had to be turned at the Ridgway wye on the other side of town.  The RGS rented K-27s from the D&RGW as their main motive power during the 40s and early 50s and owned K-27 455 outright (and bought 461 in time to scrap the line), so they could only be stored in the Ridgway roundhouse in the two stalls that were opposite to the approach tracks!

That's a little too realistic to me and since this turntable will be my only means to turn a locomotive (other than the 0-5-0 and Sky Crane), I wanted one that'll turn any sized locomotive the RGS (and the D&RGW narrow gauge to boot) would have owned.  So, someday if Blackstone ever delivers their K-28 model, she can also turn on my 65' turntable.



And before the a$$hat brigade starts shitting out its earholes about those four posts inside the turntable ring rail, those are just alignment pins that won't be there when the bridge is installed.
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Re: HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District 1938-1945
« Reply #749 on: March 12, 2019, 06:32:01 PM »
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This image really does it for me.



In monochrome, it could pass for reality:

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