Here you go George. The finishing touches on my Hay Boxcar. Adding this window... whatever it is supposed to be for.. to the car end. And the brake wheel to the other end Re-painted: All that's left is a thin coat of gloss and decals (if I can find some)!
You really don’t want to see my workbench. It would be like watching a video of how they make hotdogs or sausage. It could turn you off from modeling for years. Of course what’s currently on my bench is the rocket I am building for my Class 1 certification launch.
Well I was sucessfull with creating a powered truck or at least 50% sucessfull. Originally was trying for two ended up with one due to issues getting the worm gear off off the small Bmann motor. First I had problems with the worm and after study realized I needed to go with one of the plastic worms to get a proper mesh with the truck main gear. First one went alright 2nd and 3rd not so good as the cheap plastic motor frame could not take my efforts to get a years old worm off the shaft. But what the heck, no loss since all were junk parts from the parts bin. Put the little fella on the test track, and without some weight it won't get out of its way, but it runs. So anything done with this has to include some weight, otherwise I'm pleased. This is really intended to be the power for the 2nd unit of the rail detector car seen under construction in the rear. So the switch frog issue should not be an issue since one will pull/push the other through. And the truck is from an old RSD unit so this truck could be reduced to two axles since only the two closest together are geared.
Up next on my workbench is Virginia & Truckee Caboose #24 This one is going to be a bit harder as there are no drawings/dimensions for it that I can find. Anyone happen to have dimensions available?
Today I put together DeLoney's Barn, a laser engraved kit, by Showcase Miniatures. I plan to place it on my layout near the town of Durkee. (For pictures and comments about the construction of the Durkee area on my layout, you can find a link to my Facebook page in my signature.)
Rett, the rusty weathering on the roof is incredible! Excellent work. Question for everyone else: Doing some reading, I found text saying that the Virginia & Truckee Caboose above is 30 foot long. But how is that measured on a caboose? Is that coupler to coupler? Door to door? Or the end of one platform to the end of the other?
Ok, I took the photo above into Photoshop and built a vanishing point grid onto the face. Measuring that grid, I have to assume the 30' measurement is from door to door, otherwise the height of the main body is only about 5.9' in proportion. With 30' door to door, I measure about 35.32 from platform-platform with ~7' height. I think that's the measurement I'll go with. What's cool about the Photoshop vanishing point engine is that once I have one dimension figured out, I can scale that down to the n-scale dimension, then apply that scale to the entire grid! Now I have every measurement, automatically displaying for an N scale sized car.
I am photoshop challenged. That is a great feature and I did not know that such a tool was available. :thumbs_up:
Ummmmmmm Mark? Ya forgot the...... Nah...just kidding! That looks awesome..and finished. :thumbs_up: .
I made the sand dome by first making a resin copy of the original one, then reshaping it so that it would fit the taper of the boiler in the more forward position.
Thanks Russell. How did you make those bolt details though! Those just seal the deal on yours! I would have never guessed that was scratch built.
It is much easier to do in HO. The big ones on the lower corners of the ends are pieces of styrene shaved off the end of the ends of rod and very small square stock glued on top of each other. The ones on the straps that wrap around from the sides to the ends are small bolts that are sold by Grant Lines. I think in N scale I would use the decal bolts made by Archer Fine Transfers. They are awesome.
Today I built another Showcase Miniature's kit. I figure that tomorrow it's back to working on the layout. Here are the buildings that I finished last weekend on my layout.
