It was Mike...but wowsa...them is some reeaaalllly smal parts. So small in fact...I lost a window after attaching the glazing. It just disappeared...never to be seen again :-(
While sorting through my cars I have found quite a few that have suffered the ravages of time. Some will be repaired, some sent to a scrap yard and cut up, and some will be used for wayside structures. One such building will be a fantasy house built from an assortment of old passenger and freight cars.
The control shack consists of doors and windows from the Atlas Barb's Bungalow kit, plus odds and ends of styrene from the scrap drawer. As you can see, I changed my mind about the handrails. I decided they aren't all THAT fat, and they're a heck of a lot easier than building new ones.
Here's my heck-of-it Runaway Train locomotive. I know it was a 4-unit consist and the F-unit wasn't in the lead, but I had a junk Bachmann F and I just sort of took off with it. My camera picked up every detail, the little patches of yellow on the side aren't actually visible on the model :teeth: Pretty fun!
Nick , That is really coming along nicely. You do know , of coarse, that the minute one creates something specific , a manufacture will make it !!! LOL Mike
Parts for my home-brew turntable drive arrived from ServoCity: a 3 RPM gear motor, universal joint, shafts, and a coupler. I plan to get the cheapest decoder I can find and run it off DCC.
Steve, do you have a build thread on your home-brew turntable? I'm interested in how you go about adding a decoder to this motor.
Hello all... recovering from the defibrillator install is allowing some good bench time for modeling... building Blair Lines very nice "Dari King" for one of the T-Trak modules adjoining the elevator 'complex'. I decided to add a floor and wallpaper interior; not sure if I'm going to light this one, but I'll have the interior if I do decide. Still much to do- tables, booths, and kitchen equipment; also need to work on the roof and finish the signage. I really do enjoy building structures and am getting particular enjoyment with the laser cut wood kits by Blair Line, AMB, and Branchline ~Bruce
A Beaver on the workbench. Well more specifically a De Havilland DHC-2 float plane. Wood kit in 1:160 by Osborn Model Kits. Delicate and touchy trying to get all the slots lined up when gluing, and then you have to sand the tapers to the fuselage.
