unfinnished models

[StickyMonk]

i have been looking through my models and have realised that apart from a couple of freight cars nothing else of my stock is accually finnished, am i alone or is this a common problem??

[Lawrence Ertner]

Actually, it is common among fellow model
railroaders...and model plane builders...
and dioramists, ad infideum (sic).
In truth, one cannot call himself a real,
twofisted, practicing model railroader unless
he has at least a half dozen kits/projects
"in progress".

regards,
LWE

[slynch]

You are not alone! Just a quick list of 5 items top of head:
1. AHM 50' flat added: new deck AMB laser, lowered deck, new brakewheel, KD pockets, need to add weathering and load.
2. About 10 Athearns needing wheel sets and KD
3. Old Tyco bobber caboose, paint stripped needs: markers, paint and decals
4. LIRR caboose with metal etched roofwalk, windows, needs lighting and working markers
5. Start the P2K Mather stock car kit...

Probably 10 more projects, but you get the idea... Sound like your railroad? Part of the fun I guess...

[StickyMonk]

hello slynch
welcome aboard!! yeah sound to much like rr as well i just started on kitbashing a BN GP39E and a GP39M will take me a little while but its all part of the fun http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif

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[Chessie_SD50_8563]

-Kadeeizing (or equivalent) all the cars not already done
-finishing up my Rebuilds from GP38-2
-adding more track

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LONG LIVE THE KITTEN!!!

[Interwest]

No, you are definately NOT alone!!!
Here is my list of unfinished models:
Large station (Pola's Schonnbrun Station)
5 unbuilt boxcar kits
11 Gunderson Cars (Single and 5 Packs)
3 P42's (not even painted yet)
4 Horizon Cab Cars (Amtrak PH3, not started)
2 Dash 8's (not started)
5 SP Dash 8's (to be renumbered)
4 SP AC44's (also to be renumbered)
Although, to play devils advocate, I did complete renumbering 4 P32's (after letting them sit for 3 months...LOL)
Well, there is enough work for me in the above list to keep me busy through the summer an possible into fall as well.....LOL

[LnNrr]

I suspect that the only time anything gets
done done, as in finally finished, is when
I need room to start the latest great
project.

Chuckles

[slynch]

Thanks, StickyMonk: Nice relaxing thread! Purchased the ELO Easy Lift Off today. So add to the list: removeing the paint from Mantua 1962 Plymouth switcher to the list.

Finished one! Easy. AMB laser kit flat car deck. Peel and stick, scratch top with razor saw, damage a board or 2 with knife/chiesel blade, dry brush a little weathered black, etc across top, and hit it with the india ink solution. Under 10 minutes.

Friend's wife said: "Why are you buying this stuff, you don't have a layout?" My answer: "I need to buy them now, cause I ain't gonna have any money at retirement!"

[SD80MAC]

Think thats bad i have been running a 10 car husky stack train for the past few monthes that i have been to lazy to put the laders on

[Alan]

Shame on you, 80MAC http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif

(But we are all guilty) http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif

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The perfect combination - BNSF and N Scale!

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[Justin May]

Add me to the list of never ending projects:
1. Alco RS-11
2. GP-7
3. GP-18(2)
4. SD-45
All of which are in need of paint and decals
5. Class C31 caboose with replacement cupola, needs roofwalks, paint, and decals
6. N&W freight station , just needs windows and doors, and a home on the layout.
So much N&W, so little time!!!Have a good one, Justin May

[StickyMonk]

http://justsamantha.homestead.com/files/GP39E.jpg
http://justsamantha.homestead.com/files/GP39Eb.jpg

just to prove im accually doing something to my locos here is a pic of my GP30 rebuild into a GP39E its still not finnished yet but almost ready for painting

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[slynch]

Hi Stickymonk: Well just when you finish a project (sort of)someone points out the obvious flaws!: http://www.imcnyc.com/NY&W/nywphoto.htm

The privy at the bottom has a serious ventilation problem brought to my attention by the MOW boys... <G>

[friscobob]

I refuse to comment on this thread on the grounds it may incriminate me (heeheehee).
FWIW, I've got more unfinished projects than
I can shake a scale ruler at.....


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Ship IT on the Frisco!
Bob T.

[friscobob]

Hey Stickymonk,
Nice photos- have you ever considered sending this to a model RR mag for publication?
What loco did you use as a starting point (or what I should ask is, who made the
GP30 you're using?)
Makes me feel good about my Kiamichi RR
GP35M- got the shell built, all the details
put on, but no paint or decals yet. It should fit on a remilled Athearn GP35 chassis.


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Ship IT on the Frisco!
Bob T.

[BC Rail King]

1) EBCRL Passenger Car painting
2) MTing everything
3)Actually assembling that HO stuff that has been in the
box for like 5 years
4) Get an index of what I own.

Happy Railroading!

Dane N.


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[StickyMonk]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by friscobob:
Nice photos- have you ever considered sending this to a model RR mag for publication?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

all ill say is keep an eye out http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif

im converting 2 locos one Bachmann Spetrum GP30 (given it a new motor as well) and one dummy rail power GP35 the GP30 will become a GP39E and the GP35 will become a GP39M the locos are to go with my B30-7AB as a local set, im still debateing if i should do my Kato GP35 into a GP39V but i got to be kean to start cutting that one up....



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[AKrrnut]

I don't know if I can top all your tales, but I'll sure try! I picked up a Bachmann GS4 Daylight back in 1984. It was a special release for the Daylight trip to the World's Fair in New Orleans. Anyway, it had that old three-pole cheap motor that wouldn't pull worth beans.

A few years later, I acquire a Bowser repowering kit, which included just about everything I needed to replace all but the shell and wheels (any maybe those, too!). I started working on it, and got as far as installing rivets on the drivers. I punched them too tightly, and had to order more. Yes, I did figure out how to do it right and leave a little space, but in the meantime, that project got boxed up and packed away. That was about nine years ago! I stumble across it from time to time, whenever I dig in my train closet, but with three kids (and two more on the way! http://www.trainboard.com/eek.gif ) and no workbench, it's not likely to come out anytime soon!

Just my two cents' worth!

Pat

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Wishin' I wasn't so far
from the railroad...

[This message has been edited by AKrrnut (edited 29 May 2000).]

[friscobob]

OK Stickymonk, you've got me off the dime- I've been downstairs in the RR room trying to
come up with a mix for Kiamichi RR burgundy.
Once I find it, I'm in business! I'll have a locomotive to run with my KRR GP9 (a chopnosed Front Range GP9 shell on a modified
Athearn chassis).
I'll be keeping an eye out for your "new" mo-
tive power- are ya gonna post pictures?


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Ship IT on the Frisco!
Bob T.

[StickyMonk]

ill post pics of them both when the body work is done and then some after they have been painted and weathered, all i am waiting for on the GP38E (GP30) is some new steps i cut them out and now i cant my hands on any etched ones, ill proberly use some from an athearn shell i got a few nocking arround, i changed the fans from the brass precision scale to the plastic train station products ones as they look a lot better and have fan blades as well.

i think i will convert my Kato GP35 into a GP39V as some of them still retained the origonal rad grills the only major thing would be to remove the small rad fan.

will you be posting pics of yours when you get them finished?

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[friscobob]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by StickyMonk:
ill post pics of them both when the body work is done and then some after they have been painted and weathered, all i am waiting for on the GP38E (GP30) is some new steps i cut them out and now i cant my hands on any etched ones, ill proberly use some from an athearn shell i got a few nocking arround, i changed the fans from the brass precision scale to the plastic train station products ones as they look a lot better and have fan blades as well.

i think i will convert my Kato GP35 into a GP39V as some of them still retained the origonal rad grills the only major thing would be to remove the small rad fan.

will you be posting pics of yours when you get them finished?

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
As soon as I can figure out how to shoot pics, then transfer them to a disc to upload to my computer, I'll do just that!
I need to do that to get shots of my family, as well as lotsa other RR stuff on so's I can use them on my Website.




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Bob T.

[Interwest]

More work for me!!! http://www.trainboard.com/frown.gif
As Athearn is discontinuing the multiple run numbers and unnumbered versions of the C44 and AC44, I have been buying them up like crazy.
I bought:
11 SP C44 (3 numbered, 8 un)
9 SP AC44 (2 numbered, need 267, rest un)
3 BNSF C44 (all un)
Now, I have enough work to keep me busy until Christmas!! http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif
Unless someone wants to put on the small details and decals for me...HINT HINT http://www.trainboard.com/tongue.gif

[Throttleman]

I just counted the "waiting to be built" section in my model cabinet. Present count: 72 kits. Its that danged E-Bay!!!!

[watash]

"GUILTY" redface.gif

[mc]

I too had many more projects at hand than time to complete them. I learned a valuable lesson: don't buy too far ahead of my ability to construct the kits. By the time I got around to constructing some of them: 1) I no longer had a place to put them, 2) had changed the locale on the layout, 3) had a superior kit in mind to put in its place, 4) no longer liked the kit. I sold the unopened ones on eBay and now I'm almost current. BTW, I've worked hard at completing Alan Curtis' N scale kits - spine cars, 89' flat cars, container chassis, flatracks, finger racks and only have the 60' flat cars to go. Oh yes, just remembered those logging trucks, front loader, and....!

[ 20 April 2002, 06:24: Message edited by: mc ]

[StickyMonk]

<font color="336633">Well since this was started back in 2000, I now have 2 locos finished........ Yep only 2 in all that time :rolleyes: oh well :D </font>

[Benny]

Just remember , old chap, its the quality of finished products, not the quanitity of jobs finished. Of course, you have spent a good quantity of hours, but those were quality hours, and you have a pair of nice additions to your roster!

[yankinoz]

I finally got the decals for my kitbash of sitckymonk’s container and chassis. So that's a project that is now close to finished...

Soo Caboose - grab irons and hand rails removed but not yet replaced. Looks dangerous for the crew but I run it anyway smile.gif
SD60 mods almost done - planning to repaint and it will take time to convince myself that this is a good idea (to correct white paint on the long hood and move the cab vent to the correct location)
Scratch building CP flat cars. Basically just big piles of styrene right now.
one SD40-2 about 60% done - on hold while I catch up on a second SD40-2 so I can paint the pair at the same time.
That SD40-2 is not yet started.
Untouched Twin Stack.
Two Accurail 89' flats about half done.
Don't know how many containers/trailers in various states of dress.
4 unbuilt PS2 Covered Hoppers (one finished)
It is safe to say I have more unfinished projects than finished.

[tunnel88]

and to think i thought i was the only one with this problem? :D

i even have plastic car models in boxes that are "in progress", and i've decided my next money 'waster' is going to be 1/18 scale diecast cars that way they dont have to be built.

[Martyn Read]

Er, guilty as well! redface.gif
Far too many unfinished projects out there, including:

1x FP45 (ATSF93, 1990's)
1x F45/2x SD45 + piggyback set (ATSF, 1970's)
1x U28CG (ATSF, 1960's)
2x FA1 (SP&S/BN, 1970's)

Most of which are, well, wallowing at present. (I've got the bits to do them, just not the motivation!) There's other things that aregetting done however smile.gif

Stickymonk, you mentioned a B30-7B, i'm interested as I've just got hold of a Atlas LMX B40-8 and that would be a perfect companion for my modern intermodal set smile.gif

The Rock Springs group has been discussing it's new layout & it looks like it will be Pacific North West based, so my early BN stuff will be getting dusted off!

All the best.

[StickyMonk]

Originally posted by Martyn Read:
Stickymonk, you mentioned a B30-7B, i'm interested as I've just got hold of a Atlas LMX B40-8 and that would be a perfect companion for my modern intermodal set smile.gif
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[Martyn Read]

Nice!
Was the conversion kit okay, the results look pretty good smile.gif

Did it include the bits for the "late" dynamic box version that you've modelled, the pics on the Walthers site show it without?

Thanks

[StickyMonk]

<font color="336633">Yes the dynamic box came with the kit, but i also added the A1 Models C30-7 etched brass grills to the side of the dynamic and also to the top of the radiators.

The only prob with adding it to the Bachmann B30-7 was that the roof contour of the loco and high-hood/convertion kit didnt quite match up. I think it would have been better to kitback an Atlas or a Railpower body and mate it to a Athearn U**B chassis, I used the Bachmann one as it will run with a dummy GP39V (railpower/athearn GP35 bash) and a Bachmann Spetrum GP39E (GP30 bash).

I'll get some close ups of the diference in the roof contours if you like...</font>

[Martyn Read]

Mmm yes, i'd like to see the difference, I have a Bachmann B30-7 in my "stored" pile, so it could use that, alternatively I was thinking of using the Atlas U23B as the chassis (got to MU it with another Atlas) & I don't know how different the U23B shell is (I know the rear radiator section is really different)

Hmmm smile.gif
Choices Choices! smile.gif

[Kitbash]

Echoing the status of other posters... I have a bazillion projects to do and scores of things started and not yet "finished".

Whenever I am in a hobby shop or show, I purchase a kit or two. I have a couple of hundred cars over the last 16 years that I have painted and lettered. I have about 60 kits I have not touched. They run the gamit from Athearn, Tichy, Bowser, Walthers, unpainted brass stuff.. .you name it.

Over my work bench I have a shelf that contains boxes of stuff I have started but not finished. Count those w/ the structures, scenes, thissa, and thatta on my layout and it sometimes seems overwhelming.

This is a great thread....... makes me realize I am NORMAL!!!!!!!!! ;)

-Kitbash

[ 23 April 2002, 12:22: Message edited by: Kitbash ]

[StickyMonk]

<font color="336633">[b]Here is a couple of pics of the convertion.....

http://www.stickymonk.com/b30.jpg http://www.stickymonk.com/b301.jpg

[Martyn Read]

Thanks for posting those.
Hmmm, a bit of food for thought there, you can see the change in angles on those closeups quite well. I shall have to put a lot of thought into this smile.gif

The seethrough grilles have worked really well though, very nice work. smile.gif

Thanks again!

[ 23 April 2002, 22:59: Message edited by: Martyn Read ]