Weekend Update 10/4/20

[NtheBasement]

Thanks all!  Good call on the State Street Models dumper.  I bought it 25 years ago at Chicagoland? hobby store while on a trip, because kickback tracks are the closest thing I've ever seen to a roller coaster on a real railroad.  I blame that purchase for my long strange trip down the animation and coal roads.

I should slow the dumper down, need another PWM.  I used one of these on my turntable motorization project and was very impressed with it.  https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FLJ6ZHQ.  The other one controls a loadout motor.

Talk about needing to slow things down, here's a quick kickback video.  I can't do much about how the square cube law affects gravity though.

And thanks for the tip on the new Animations sub-forum!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I've done something terrible.

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[eric220]

I've done something terrible.

Hawt!

[wm3798]

I've done something terrible.

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O no!

[Chris333]

Is it O no or HO no?

[glakedylan]

so bad...as in good


gary

[mu26aeh]

Been hanging out on the wrong si(z)e of the tracks with that Midhiem fellow it seems.... 

[Point353]

MTH O scale PRR H3 2-8-0.
https://ctt.trains.com/how-to/product-reviews/2006/04/mth-premier-line-o-gauge-pennsylvania-rr-h3-class-2-8-0

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Is it O no or HO no?

O no!

Oh it's O no...

F'er weighs as much as a box of N scale engines. Now I know where the tradition of building benchwork out of 2x12s came from.

[wm3798]

JFRBTM!

[ednadolski]

Oh it's O no...

And thus did the floodgates open... 

Ed

[Mark W]

I decided to model my own Jeep. I started with a CG N Scale print, lifted it and added 35” tires. Then I painted it and added some details to match my prototype. I’m pretty happy with this one.
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I love it!  Only thing it's missing is the coupler spring coil over! 

I actually designed the yard Kabota to use coupler springs for suspension.  On the Jeep, you could fashion an independent axle and probably swap out the big(er)/stronger steel springs for extended suspension and the weaker copper/brass springs for compressed suspension and make it look like the Jeep is really out for a crawl! 

[up1950s]

My father bulit this engine back in the 1990s, now I have to remove those grills and some doors, any ideas of how to do that and - how do I make handrails?

Some things are better left alone IMO . I would keep that that along side the engine house as is .

[up1950s]

Thanks all!  Good call on the State Street Models dumper.  I bought it 25 years ago at Chicagoland? hobby store while on a trip, because kickback tracks are the closest thing I've ever seen to a roller coaster on a real railroad.  I blame that purchase for my long strange trip down the animation and coal roads.

I should slow the dumper down, need another PWM.  I used one of these on my turntable motorization project and was very impressed with it.  https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FLJ6ZHQ.  The other one controls a loadout motor.

Talk about needing to slow things down, here's a quick kickback video.  I can't do much about how the square cube law affects gravity though.

And thanks for the tip on the new Animations sub-forum!

Just edit the play speed till it looks right , and tell nobody . See if anybody calls you out on it with a new group of lookers .

PS those PWM's look like something I can have fun with , thanks .

[NtheBasement]

Just edit the play speed till it looks right , and tell nobody . See if anybody calls you out on it with a new group of lookers .

PS those PWM's look like something I can have fun with , thanks .

I found a 5 for $12 and placed an order.

I'd love to see what a video looks like at prototype speed but I'd need a much higher frame rate on the camera to stretch it out to a minute or two.