Welcome back everyone to the gateway to the weekend. I hope you all had a great week and lets hope all of us stay pain free this weekend! Saturday: It is supposed to be 82 degrees and this may very well be the last time that temperature is seen this year. As such, my plan is to drag the N scale shadow box to the garage and finish sanding it. Last light I used joint compound or spackle to fill in all the seams and holes. I hope to get it sanded, primed, sanded again, primed again then painted. I want to paint the exterior black and paint the interior sky board blue and white. I also need to work on the one HO module for work. Sunday: No idea what the plan will be. Maybe take it easy and continue my quest for a suitable prototype for the N scale layout now that the modules are ready for new track. So how about you? What do you have planned for the weekend? Let us know. We'll come back on Monday the 12th to see how we all did and hopefully we all avoid soreness! Until we meet again on Monday, have a great weekend, stay healthy, stay safe and as always... High Greens!
I am still weathering boxcars. I have four 40 footers ready for the weathering chalks. I have been using Pan Pastels and liking the results. I looked through the pile and picked out the next four boxcars I am going to do. First, I need to unbox them and give them a spray of Dullcoat. I may pull out a couple of older kits that have metal bases and spray paint the bases. I have a boxcar and two cabooses to do. There are two Stewart locomotives I may assemble. They are both Baldwins; a PRR AS-16, and a PRSL S-12. Run some trains while I am at too.
This weekend will be more miscellaneous stuff. I realized this week the LED lights weren't going to work in my RS-1s due to 28ga wire was the smallest I have on hand. I need 32 so it can run behind the speakers and not bind the shell. So that project's on hold. But there's enough to do! I plan on putting in some Tortoise machines, working some more on the stairwell to the control tower, as well as some miscellaneous building work. Results posted Monday I hope! Have a great weekend all!
After last week's lack of motivation, I hope to get back to my 2-10-2 project. As well as get started on my friends 1:48 Model T run about. Y'all have a great weekend!! Wolf
No actual modeling this weekend. We will spending some time up north in former Central Pa Lumber Company, and Barclay Coal Company territory. I'll be out with the camera looking for more remains of the Susquehanna &New York, State Line & Sullivan, Barclay RRs. This Sunday the PA Game Commision will have it's annual self guided driving tour along part of the old S&NY RoW that is normally closed to vehicles. This is a bucket list item. I've been wanting to do this for years but never could because of work. Have Fun Everyone!
Well, neighborhood yard sale is today and Saturday. That was not on my radar at all but the wife has recruited me to work out in the garage and manage things. Boo. That leaves Sunday hopefully for some layout time. Plenty of scenery work to do.
Today I gotta get the yardwork buttoned up as the leaves are falling, the irrigation will be shutting off for the season, and we are supposed to see a 20 degree drop in average temperature as well as some rain Saturday and Sunday. That said, I started rev 3 drawings on my NP coal dock, this time adding the removable magnetic base with electrical contact strips, better part fit with finer detail, and better rail arc transitions on the coal gondola ramp. The goal is to make this a finescale contest quality model that has been selectively compressed to fit the available space. And I will probably be designing an new carstyle in Z, a steel drop bottom coal gondola that I will need for my coal dock: Look how beat these gondolas got:
My control circuit for the yard ladder is almost done. My plan over the next couple days is to finish it and then start to install it, getting all the turnouts to do what they are supposed to do. Also want to clean up the train room as I have left quite a mess with the yard rebuild. Wishing you all a great weekend
Well I need to winterize the trailer, it should take about an hour. I also need to finish building the modules I started last weekend before I go back to work Sunday night. Also on the radar. A visit to an LHS for more supplies.
I have come to realize...we may be the walking wounded. I hope not! My rock scrambling knee is: A small bruise on the left kneecap done before hand, ACL tendon ( I think) abrading over left kneecap bone, pulled knee support muscles. Hey! I have a three-way turnout in my knee! All much better now. Little done for The Very Small Railroad. Just one of two boxcar repairs made. Glue drying now.
Builders photos of freight cars rock. Especially in the late steam to transition era. I love that gon'.
I just downloaded a trial copy of CorelDRAW which I intend to tinker with to see if it is something I "need" going forward. This all comes from wanting a better template for building some custom ladders. Investigating CAD got me thinking about laser cutting and 3D printing. These might end up being the most expensive ladders in the history of model railroading! In any case, for now I am back to investigating 2D CAD tools. My objective for the weekend is to create scale drawings of the ladders as good or better than I can create on an old version of CADRail.
Testing electrical connections and if successful, programming locomotives and running my first DCC trains. Sent from my SM-N950U1 using Tapatalk
