Hi Jeff Last time I looked 'Hooked on Hallmarks' still had some turbines, tenders and PA1s, I have great fun at shows when people ask about them and I tell they are Christmas tree ornaments. I'm planning on doing another turbine but am going to mill off the cast handrails and etch some new bodysides and rails. I know it will still be slightly too big but as I am unlikely ever to double head with it I don't think people will notice.[ The two NKP PAs are both running OK but I am still working out the best way to do the Union Pacific M1000. I think I am going to have to stretch a Marklin BR 152 chassis. Anybody know what else Hallmark made that are 1/200-1/220 scale apart from the heavyweight coaches? Kev QUOTE=SJ Z-man;1031739]Kevin, thanks for the link to new auto supplier. I've been buying from Alvaro and João. I've converted the Vandy tendor for the UP Tourist train but need to the Turbine.[/QUOTE]
[/QUOTE] Sadly, most of the items are closer to N scale & most of the "miniatures" are too small. For 2015 they have a CSX GP38-2 & caboose & box car. A miniature PRR set with steamer & HW pullman. HoH may have a 3 truck set of "miniature fire engines" to fit an old timey firehouse Churches tend to be too big for Z
I know this is a question that has been on your minds for years now: Can I hot-rod a MicronArt model T? Yes, you can ...........
Excellent work on the boxcar!! Now if someone could do that in a Milwaukee Road "ribside" style boxcar, I'd take a few!!
Nice work indeed! On my side, currently swapping factory truck mounted couplers with body mounted MTL samples on the first of my AZL GP38s. More tricky than I first imagined. Dom
After getting Republic Steel to a condition where it was suitable for photographing for a couple of magazines (Z-Track and Continental Modeller) in both USA forms i.e 1950-60s and also late 1990s I thought it was time to get back to doing some British stuff. I'd done a couple of preview pics for the editors of the layout in U.K form but knew I needed a lot more stock appropriate to a British steel mill. So. A few standard Marklin refrigerator vans went into the chop shop to be converted into RRA runner wagons and double bolster wagons. Basically the body was discarded and a new scratchbuilt body constructed. Seen here are a few being shunted by Railfreight liveried Class 47 I've also been doing a thread on Modelrailforum in the U.K on British outline trains in Z. One of the things I looked at was converting the Atlas editions static collectors models to running ones, starting with the Gresley teak coaches which come with the Flying Scotsman and Mallard sets One of the Flying Scotsman A3 4-6-2s, now motorised, heads a rake of LNER coaches past the steel mill I've done a video to show how easy a conversion these are Next up will be running versions of the Southern railway Pullman coaches that come with the Bulleid Pacific and the Great Western coaches as well Kev
That's looking good! Used to love cycling over to the old Goleta depot site to watch these coming through in the early morning fog (sorry, marine layer) in California. care to tell us how you are doing it and what components you are using? Kev
View attachment 172799 T thanks Kev. The top comes from an MTL SD40-2. The cab is from an AZL SD-70 (with the nose cut away. The rest is scratch-built from styrene sheets, except the side doors which are from an old broken MTL F-7B shell. Lots of fitting and trimming. The side "panel lines" are the thinnest styrene I could get, but still too thick for my liking. This shell would be fairly easy to etch, but I've never done that, so styrene is the medium. If I could cast it I would, I'd love to have another. It will be a Ski Train locomotive (D&RGW).
Chatted with Stony Smith last night. Seems there might be F40PH shells on the near horizon. If you like the prospect you might want to communicate with him. A product that sells is a product worth Yes. (But just try to find one, especially an affordable one).
