Weekend Update 11/27/16

[John]

another background industry - in progress shot

[basementcalling]

It will depend on how I feel.  For now I'm working hard on not throwing up what little I can eat.  You would not believe how much nausea comes along with a craniotomy.  I'm better today, though.

Please don't post video evidence. We'll take your word for it. Sorry to hear about your condition, but glad to know surgery left you functioning and on the road to recovery. Keep those electric impulses in the tracks and out of the jaw. 

[Cajonpassfan]

It will depend on how I feel.  For now I'm working hard on not throwing up what little I can eat.  You would not believe how much nausea comes along with a craniotomy.  I'm better today, though.

Hang tough Dave, this too shall pass.
My best to you and yours....
Otto K.

[mu26aeh]

What can you do to repair frames? I bought same Atlas frames to modify for 4 Briggs Models m420. The fuel tanks need to be shortened after trying unsuccessfully on two pairs I gave up and decided just to paint the exposed frame portions black. It'll be like Kabuki!  The modifications leave so little frame material left near the motor that they get brittle. But if they can be repaired I'm interested to know how.

Thanks.

Craig

In this case, I ran a jumper wire from the decoder board to the power pick up strip at the truck.  Once frame is cracked/broken, I don't think there is much to do.

[Cajonpassfan]

So if I cut the arch from thin styrene I should be able to paint/weather it. Once happy cut the hole  and glue on. Put some rusty bars up behind it.


Don't know if I like my arch though. Might re-try with a wide oval instead of circle.

Personally, I like the pipes, even the one through the window. Who is to say its not something retrofitted later for whatever purpose that we don't readily understand. And the corrugated shack? A bit of concrete deck around it would solve that problem...
Remind me not to post unfinished scenes on TRW
Otto K.

[craigolio1]

Any issues with vibration?

I fixed the "80's Bachman cab light - that was harsh by the way.

There's I tiny visible in the back cab window on the right side but I like to think it's one of the crew using a flashlight to find his fork.



I could open it and try again but I broke one of the too tiny to see LED wires and managed to repair it without damaging anything else. I'm leaving well enough alone.

Craig

[R L Smith]

Wishing you a speedy recovery Dave V.

Another great Weekend Update!  Craig, I think the lighting looks great and suspect your customer is gonna be real happy with it.   

Ron

[tehachapifan]

Personally, I like the pipes, even the one through the window. Who is to say its not something retrofitted later for whatever purpose that we don't readily understand. And the corrugated shack? A bit of concrete deck around it would solve that problem...
Remind me not to post unfinished scenes on TRW
Otto K.

Agree completely. Was going to suggest a concrete footing under the shack too to solve the submerged shack issue. The original scene with the lower shack and the pipes was way more visually interesting, IMHO.

[fcnrwy23]

Hi
Another Alco leaves my workbench.  LAL 425, a former NH C-425 which Laura had a cab ride on in 1992.  This is a shortened Atlas C-628 shell on a Life-Like C-424 chassis and frame.  Next in the queue is CNW 6724, a Zito yellow C-628.  Other projects are held up due to a lack of suitable decals.

Cheers
Steve
NZ

Love the Loco, Too Bad Lifelike didn't make this..

By the way, Atlas made the LA&L's C420 some years ago....

What "Font" was used for the lettering?


Jerry g.

[peteski]

I fixed the "80's Bachman cab light - that was harsh by the way.

I just call 'em how I see 'em! 

There's I tiny visible in the back cab window on the right side but I like to think it's one of the crew using a flashlight to find his fork.
I could open it and try again but I broke one of the too tiny to see LED wires and managed to repair it without damaging anything else. I'm leaving well enough alone.

Craig

You have my stamp of approval Craig (not that you really need it)!  Looking great! 

Better modeling through peer pressure!  We should make that phrase one of the header images. 

[craigolio1]

Haha. I see it as being held accountable. It's easy to take shortcuts. Say it's good enough. Often it is but one thing is for sure, photography reveals flaws you didn't know were there. And the peer presure prevents laziness. Clearly I was capable of blocking the light. Laziness prevents it. Calling me out on it motivated me.

I think that's part of why we post here. We have seen so much of each other's work that we know when one of us has succeeded, or can do better. Our modelling improves because of that.

There are models I have made that I wouldnt post here, haha.

That's how I see it anyway.

Keep the shaming coming!!!

[OldEastRR]

Is there a prototype for the SlimFast water tower , is it designed to fit a tight spot on a layout, or did you just feel like building something "different"?   

I reworked the Wallthers tank into a version more sized for an industry, rather than a whole town. It's part of a scale model of a prototype factory complex I'm kit/scratchbuilding on commission. The tank bottom, platform and roof were the only parts I had to make from scratch; the rest of the tower is just cut-down kit pieces and a tank body from the Walthers industrial tank set. Eventually the tower will have a factory logo on it.

[OldEastRR]

-Question: Should I keep the pipes or scrap?

Unless the water has to be pumped that high (to reach a raised storage tank or whatever) there'd be no engineering reason to have the pipe that elevated above the water level. It does take more power to lift water higher. So I agree with the opinion that the pipe should be shorter and enter the wall under the window. Pumps usually are long and squat and not tall and wide. The usual reason for putting pipes through windows is they have been added some time after the original structure was built, where tearing a hole through a wall may not be feasible or there just isn't any wall space left to get another pipe through.
And I know people just get used to using those wide curves for their piping but most right angle bends in large pipes are pretty sharp, with little curvature. More like an L instead of a piece of macaroni. But to each his own....

[craigolio1]

Made some progress on a model I started ages ago.

This one started because of a CPR SD40-2 I was modelling for another fellow, and I managed to melt a handrail with my soldering iron and had to buy another loco to get the new handrail set. Curse you Kato and your lack of parts.  I decided to model one of CPR's Expo '86 units, minus a handrail of course.





This one got new steps, grab irons, BLMA fans, nose mounted head light, ditch lights, and an MRC sound decoder.

It still needs couplers..... and of course number boards.... and does not look like an '80s Bachman model Peteski.

Craig

[OldEastRR]

Photo makes the model much larger than it is compared to the drawing. The model is only about 12" off. There will be some issues - smoke stack is a bit off, but that can't be helped. Lots of work needs to be done on the lower part of the model.

About the stack placement: once you cut off the front course of the boiler shell, you could have cut off the smokebox front, and cut off most of the section behind the stack and glued it to the front end of that piece to get the stack set way back to nearly prototype position. You had extra boiler in case you needed 2 tries for the "spacer" piece.