Workshop Wednesday

Looks good from there Bill. Is your layout elevated in your garage?

 

I am jumping the Wednesday gun because I know I will be busy tomorrow night. My FRISCO side projects are caught up now so I am back on the MKT wrecker build. It might not look like a lot of progress but getting it to primer is a monumental step for the assembly. I hope to get it sprayed with chipping fluid and white in the next week or so. After primer I shot it with a mix of Alclad burnt exhaust and jet exhaust to give a dark steel look where the paint has chipped on the edges.

The cab was primed and then shot black to check the bodywork. Then it will get Alclad too.

The drivers side window will roll up and down so that has been the current project with it. The glass is a test piece then I will put in the finished piece toward completion:

I got the pulleys for the winch built from nylon washers:


Snatch block for main cable built the same way:


Thanks for checkin it out!

 

Athearn BB GP7 conversion progress. Holes from dynamic brake fan removal filled with sheet styrene.

 

Don, I always thought your locomotives are very interesting to see!!! May I suggest you start an album for your model efforts. Please include your work in progress.

Joe

 

Yes it's 52 inches you know us old Guy's have to be able to get under the layout

 

This shot is my River and lake course, it has no water in it. I probably will repaint the undercoat before water.

 

More hotel room models.

Accurail MKT Boxcar. Been in this thread a few times. Working on the brake rigging:



I need to do the same thing with my Frisco SS cars (Accurail #7108).

So bright, it hurts my eyes. I think I need to start weathering my cars.

Tichy PFE Reefer. More brake rigging:

 

Steve, your model pulleys are fantastic!!! It's amazing what a modeler can do with what some people call trash and be able to make something beautiful. One time at Boeing, we were talking about a Gerber cutting machine used to lay up composite materials. I was busy making a HO scale model of a Gerber while we were talking. At first some people thought I wasn't paying attention but saw my model and realized I was. All of the material I was using came out of the trash and I used plastic string from a pair of ear plugs to represent the electrical cables. We ended up making a 120ft by 60ft model of the bond shop of the future. Our scale was one inch equals one foot. The model even made it in the Boeing company newspaper.

Joe

 

I know I will be occupied on Wednesday again this week so I'm going early again.
Tom, the 40's are great. I hope to have all the U25s at some point. Not sure why but I want to. Joe, did you happen to take any pictures of that model?

 

Here is my entry for the week. While the wrecker project cures some paint. I knocked out three quickies for my dads layout. Two Genesis an a Tangent car so they didn't need much except some paint work.
He had picked up the Landmark car was damaged before he got it so I had to patch the roofwalks and hide it with rust. Same with one end. So it got weathered heavier than we really wanted but it was to hide repairs. Almost done in these pics.
The white box is pretty filthy to look like it is a 1980 or later piece so it could be used with BN patched stuff even. The Airslide just like it came from Tangent.





Thanks for checkin them out like usual.

 

Athearn BB GP7 conversion progress... (roof) filled the gaps n low spots with putty, let it dry, filled the shrinkage, sanded. Pics don't really show much difference from the last update. Mark Twain Hobbies called to tell me some of my detail parts are in. Woot...