This is what is on mine right now. There are about 15 locomotives there and all need repair. The story behind them is somewhat unusual though. They belong to a female customer who's home had to be evacuated in one of the California wild fires. One of her first prize possessions were her trains so when they had to evacuate she just grabbed all of her display cases from the walls an put them in her car. I doing so some got lightly bruised and need some work. I hope to get them all done this weekend. PS. Her and family and home are all intact. Bless Them ! Mike
that's awesome that her house and family is ok! I hope you can get all those locomotives patched up Mike.
Priorities !! I Love it ! Grab the trains and put em in the car...and btw..."Honey...did you remember the kids ?!" Hehehehehe.... :teeth: BTW...happy her and her family, and home escape unscathed. We live in a forest...and it scares the heck outta me every fire season.
Mike, I am working at a new potato processing plant in Caldwell, Idaho and there are several fires all around us her to the point that this morning it looked like we had fog but was smoke, several people have lost their homes and pets along with all belongings, The fire fighters are not making much headway in getting it under control due to wind and additional lightning strikes starting new fires. Just sad!
I am starting on 10 Intermountain Reefer Kits. Got my work cut out for me! Can we say labor intensive!
Hi Though not recent work, this Lamoille Valley RS-11 is finally heading to the paint shop.Only been sitting round like this for about 5 years! Not detailed to the extent of more recent models, but fun to do never the less. Decals and weathering soon. Although I don't model the LV, it was a cool railroad with a lot of character. Cheers Steve
Received my Union Station car sides and corrugated material in the mail today. Held my breathe while opening the package since I saw the 500 pound gorilla had processed this package, however all survived intact. Building two versions of the GN full dome with the Bmann dome as the base. The first is the smoothside version in BN paint as a regular passenger car. The 2nd is the BN version of the theatre car which the sides are for. To get the regular version all I had to do is get rid of the corrugations. The 2nd version uses the car sides for the rebuilt version into the BN theatre car. A 3rd version exists as the BNSF car that had full corrugation added to match the other cars from ATSF which I won't be doing. The BN passenger version keeps the AC equipment grills while the theatre version has different grills and equipment locations. The car shown has had all detail removed for the theatre version. The car sides are very thin plastic and this will be my first time using their product. Other than enlarging a couple of windows on the body and cutting a new opening for the theatre end windows I plan to laminate these very thin sides to the Bmann body. Some trimming of the original side skirt will also be needed. They recommend not using styrene glue because of the very thin sides so ACC may be my choice. One strip of corrugation will be added just below the dome windows as the prototype had them and the side below that.
John, how thin are those sides? Are they comparable to brass sides in thinness? Probably have to get me a set...and find another full dome to use for Glacier View.
I get .010 on the calipers and they also match my .010 styrene strips. More than thin enough to need backing although the clear plastic include for windows I believe is supposed to give some backing since it is a bit thicker. The way I see these is that they are thin enough to use as an overlay when the car side has been sanded down. I sanded my car down with a drum sander in the Dremel hooked up to a speed controller to tame the Dremel down to below melt the plastic speed. The Bmann sides are very thin to start with so I would not take much with a Dremel at even the lowest spend without a controller to destroy the sides. The one that is staying in the passenger configuration I hand sanded since I needed to retain some of the original details. These are thinner than the brass sides I have messed with before and if this comes out good will probably be my answer to coming up with some cars I've wanted.
:startled:How'd I miss this?! The GM50 is very interesting to me, and I keep saying I'll get around to making it.
I'm working on modeling a frack sand loadout. It is fun trying to match the prototype on this one. This is the first part of a large facility and I still have a long ways to go...
Routed out the window opening today and applied the Union Station sides with slow set thick ACC. Gives time to position and align the sides. Next up is to apply a small narrow strip of corrugation above the sides and below the roof. Then the real fun starts trying to fabricate the theatre end. Also still have to apply small strips to each end as this was designed to go on a core kit. Messed up the other car when I got the corrugated top band too wide but I may have recovered with some very careful trimming. Still have a thin strip of styrene to apply to it.
Because of John, I went to union station's page, looks like I'll need to get the full dome sides and sides for the BN/NP business cars...well, guess there is another project.
Wow, dragged that one out of the past... That was a fun paint job to work on. Karl, off to a great start on a very impressive facility!! I managed to finish a few things this weekend after spending the last 4 weeks on vacation. Back to the grind though. Brian
and for good measure, a few goofy paint schemes on some Atlas tankers. Each car was done as a pair with two different road numbers. Brian
