I have been doing road crossings (I hate it). I make the paper templets then transfer that to thin styrene then glue down and or stick down with butal rubber (some old AMI roadbed) and then paint. Mike
Looking great Mike! I haven't gotten anything on the layout done. This spinal headache is on day 5. Not bad if I stay laying down, but as soon as I get up...it starts. Very painful. Hopifully this week will be better.
England in the Spring Time The 1980 Car and Locomotive Cyclopedia 4th Edition has arrived on loan from the British Library - and Lyn caught me in the English spring time sunshine researching the next projects! No work in the workshop this weekend but some very interesting reading, and some new cars to work on later this year. Peter N Scale Kits www.nscalekits.com
Hi Mike....JUst curious about the building with the overhead crane. Could you tell me what kits you used if any? Looks great!!! Thanks!!! Steve E.
Sure Steve , It is an extreamly cut down Walthers overhead crane. http://www.fiferhobby.com/cgi-bin/quikstore.cgi?product= 933-3810 The building rails were scratch built. Thanks Mike
I ran trains all day yesterday at the SDSoNS layout. This time I had three trains out. One was a manifest (assorted stuff) with a lot of grain hoppers and mill gons. The second was heavily weighted toward TTX and Golden West high cube boxcars, but with a couple of other cars thrown in to mix up. Motive power was a very Rio Grande mishmash of GP and SD units. Each were about 50 cars, since we were running short trains this weekend. Carlos stopped by with his Tropicana Conrail train, which looked nice in weathered orange! The third was my California Zephyr, with matched F units. Today a bunch of us are going to Perris Museum to watch the newly-returned to service steamer try out her legs.
Thanks Mike...great job. My Walthers crane is still in the plastic. Maybe this will encourage me to get busy! Steve E.
Train show in Ithaca, NY. Our NTrak club was there and we hooked up with some other NTrakers from Syracuse, Canada and Philadelphia for a nice big layout. Lotsa fun.
that building and crane looks awesome. i may have to get one of those and do it up. i have been working on my gas station and parking lot lights.
WOW that truck is amazing!!! :thumbs_up: A working Hi-railer, I want one so bad! Can't wait to see it finished.
I finished a tutorial of transforming a generic Kato Mikado into a Southern Ms-4 Mikado using a GHQ detail kit. This can be seen on my blog at TB in the link below. It is quite detailed and the parts can be used to make any Mikado. http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/blogs/viewblog.php?userid=3206&entry=625 Stay cool and run steam.....
This Weekend. I got in about an hour running time, finalized the village plan and placed all the buildings, and prepared to start landscaping. For me, a productive weekend. Dave.
Thanks Mike. It was a great detail kit to work on. It turns a generic Kato Mikado into a very detailed steam loco. I just finished a GHQ NP W-5 kit of the Kato Mikado using a long tender since I added a ESU Lok-Sound decoder and speaker. The small tender in the kit wouldn't hold the components. Stay cool and run steam.....
Yesterday, for the first time in probably 12+ years, I ran trains! WooooHooooo! I set up a little spare track Unitrack twice around with a spur on the table, then broke in my F3. Today was mowing the postage stamp and sitting on the porch with the dog listening to the ballgame day.
