MODELING It's Friday! 12-02-11 Weekend Modeling Plans.

Jim Wiggin Dec 2, 2011

  1. Jim Wiggin

    Jim Wiggin Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    It's the first weekend of December and the Holiday season is in full operations.

    The first thing I need to get done is the weathering of a friends flat cars, caboose and locomotive. He wants these for a show he will be running at on the 15th, so those are my priority. They should not take long as I have the hardest part of the flat cars done. After that is finished I'm off to lay track in the living room for my 14th annual O scale Christmas train. The 2011 MTH Christmas car I ordered will be here today or tomorrow, so the timing is perfect. For those not familiar with my tradition, each year MTH produces a new Christmas car. I have been buying them since 1998. My first was actually a Lionel. About four years ago I had to limit ten cars for the train and start displaying the older cars. This years train will display cars #2002 - 2011.

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    This is last years picture, this year will be the same. The Chicago Central GP30 will once again be performing pulling duties although I'm hoping to add a new B&M SW switcher soon. Hopefully time can be set a side for the N scale layout as I have all I need to start the south side of the layout, we shall see.

    So how about you? How many have a Christmas train that needs to be set up or your continuing to set up? This is a busy time of year for us, any shows? Let us know what your working on and we'll get together on Monday the 5th and see how we all did.
     
  2. retsignalmtr

    retsignalmtr TrainBoard Member

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    I installed the switches I had been working on for my club on Wednesday evening. I used 40 year old R/C servos as switch machines and prefabed the crossover on a piece of 1/4" plywood. The servos are powered by a 9 volt battery and it should last quite a while. This weekend I have to make up a panel with a couple of pushbuttons to control the machines. I got my throttle back from Digitrax, so i'll also be operating my home layout for the first time in a month and a half.
     
  3. MisterBeasley

    MisterBeasley TrainBoard Supporter

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    Well, it's going to be a train weekend after all. We had plans to go north for skiing, but with temperatures here in the 60s earlier in the week, and little natural snow up north, the trail count is small and we just don't think it's worth a 3+ hour drive each way and the attendant cost of petroleum products for the limited skiing that provides. So....

    Train show! The Hub Division of the NMRA has a show each year about this time in Marlborough, Mass. There's nothing in particular that I need, but I usually come home with a small bag of trinkets. There are usually a number of interesting layouts, too, so it's a nice opportunity just to shake off those summertime blues and get with the season.

    Mooseport will definitely be the next project. The street-running girder rail parts and cobblestone street material arrived from Proto:87 this week. (Fast shipping, they get a gold star.) Thinking about the progression of the project, I'll probably get the structures at least loosely assembled first. I'm using DPM modules for the critical ones, so it shouldn't be too tough. I've got to fit them into the tracks, the street pattern and the old mill canal that runs through town.

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    The canal is represented by the blue-edged paper line. Tracks are pretty much as shown. The curved one on the right will be in the cobblestone street. The larger square building front and center will be extended to the back, and will have a second-story bridge over the canal connecting it to the L-shaped structure on the other side. I'll be using stone wall Hydrocal castings for the walls of the canal. But, I'm getting ahead of myself. There are a lot of weekends ahead before I get to that point!
     
  4. PW&NJ

    PW&NJ TrainBoard Member

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    No Christmas train for me, though in a week I'll be getting back my original O-scale train set from when I was 3 or 4 years old when I see my old drummer at a local train show (one that's apparently been going on for the last 6 years completely off my radar!). Can't wait to see the BN F unit again! I'm hoping I can get by the hardware store and grab something simple to put my son's track on for his little layout. Maybe some 1/4" plywood and a little bit of foam. Also I'll be squeezing in some more work on Grey One's boxcab project. Need to find a way to make it work on reasonable curves but still use side-skirting (cuz it looks neat). And I need to get another ink cartridge so I can print more cardstock models. Anyway, hope your weekend works out well, too!
     
  5. Tompm

    Tompm TrainBoard Supporter

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    This weekend, my son will be camping with his Boy Scout troop. We will be attending a college open house on Sunday with my daughter and a meeting with the volleyball coach. Then there is Christmas decorating. I am hoping at the very least to be able to sit at the workbench and perhaps take inventory of paints and other supplies I need. I know I need decal solution.
     
  6. Flash Blackman

    Flash Blackman TrainBoard Member

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    I am going to flat coat a bunch of cars, both H0 and N scale. In order to do that I have to get the decals on them! Busy time for me.
     
  7. bnsf dash 8

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    I've got 2 sets of Roundhouse Overton cars to convert to Micro-Trains couplers for a friend. These cars are much nicer-looking than I thought they'd be.
     
  9. MisterBeasley

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    Are those bubble lights? How old are they? We still have a set of them, left over from my parents, so they are at least 60 years old.
     
  10. Wolfgang Dudler

    Wolfgang Dudler Passed away August 25, 2012 TrainBoard Supporter In Memoriam

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    I have to build more turnouts for my Pueblo & Salt Lake RR. Until now, there're only 24 built, standard gauge, dual gauge and narrow gauge. For the first set up I need 9 dual gauge turnouts more.

    Wolfgang
     
  11. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    More work on the pistol case Z layout scenery.

    Jim, nice shot of the bubble lights with C7s as well. Classic look.
     
  12. rg5378

    rg5378 TrainBoard Member

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    What a nice picture!
     
  13. rg5378

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    I am going to get some extruded styrofoam for the raised portion of my layout. Then I am going to put it the layout.
     
  14. YoHo

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    This weekend is all prep for the baby who is scheduled for Dec 24 (our first though, so who knows)
    I have to paint a dresser and crib that we just got free for nothing.

    Tomorrow morning though is our monthly Train club meeting. Before the meeting I hope to do some work on the little corner where the vineyard will be.
     
  15. FLG

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    weather a few boxcars and im turning two Trainline tank cars into a fire fighting set
     
  16. GP30

    GP30 TrainBoard Member

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    Was planning on laying the last few feet of mainline and siding rails and the cross over by the end of the weekend, but I have to work tomorrow so they will cut down on my available time for this weekend.
     
  17. PW&NJ

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    Congratulations, YoHo! And I sure dig those things you get free for nothing. Loads better than the stuff you get free and have to pay for. :tb-tongue:
     
  18. Jim Wiggin

    Jim Wiggin Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Sharp eye MisterBeasley and Hemi. The C7 lights are actually LED's that look like the old C7's and the bubble lights are a few years old. I bought the first set in 1997. They still make them, you can get them at Hobby Lobby and sometimes Target. I tend to decorate in a vintage fashion. Thanks:)
     

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