Workshop Wednesday

Thanks Tom,
Both winch cables are picture hanging wire but two different gauges. I annealed them with a MAPP gas torch to soften them and add some color from the heat.
Your SDs look great Tom. I love those QA&P units you turn out. The grilles must have a lot to drill out but it is sure worth it.

 

I know I know it still not a Frisco model but here is this weeks progress on the Katy wrecker. Mostly paint work. Caution some very dirty pictures here!Thanks for checking it out as always. I love that this thread has been so active with everyone's projects.

 

Thanks Ken. The cut the seat with a dremel and the foam is from a blob of great stuff foam I cut down to fit. I think every old truck is worn out in the same spot.

 

Steve:

Excellent work, simply excellent.

Andre

 

Painted the tops of the Athearn GPs, started assembling the fans, but they seem to be missing their spacer rings listed in the instructions. (Which were a little disappointing, in that they listed the parts, but the numbers in the instructions were not on the parts or their sprues/runners.)

I have a little more spot putty work to do.

 

Good stuff Roger and Craig. I like the Star Wars paper towel too!

 

Andre thank you very much for the compliments. Glad you enjoy it.

Tom,thanks as always I know you enjoy a dirty model too. I will do a little write up in the how to threads. Not a problem I have more to paint and plenty more projects. Trial and error is really what I do though. I will gladly share what I do but it is not a science for me and I'm sure not how others might do it. My life has usually been against manufactures recommendations and voiding warranties! HA I will do one for oils and one for chipping fluids and chipped/peeling paint too.

Thanks again guys,Steve

 

Won eBay auction for Atlas/Kato GP7 trucks--they are the same as Stewart F3 trucks, so I repaired my F3:



I worked on my Bowser Old Lady Connie some more. I tried replacing the magnet with supermagnets, and ground off the cast headlight and filled with JB Weld:



I got the binds out, but it seems to have a wobble...

 

Hurray! Ok, this was weird. The sprue with the spacer rings had stuck to my sweater and eventually fell to the floor. Thankfully, I hadn't stepped on it.

A video of me looking all over for them with it stuck to me would've been funny.

My wife purchased the towels, I'm sure they were on sale. ;-)

 

Its been a challenge to work on things, my wife, Miss Carla, is recovering from surgery and is not supposed to bend down or lift more than 5 lbs, so I am trying to perform those actions whenever the need arises and treat her with extra care. But I have managed to get more done. Added Leslie 5 chimes, including to the Atlas unit, assembled and added fans to the Athearn BB shells. Now the profiles are a little more "Frisco".

 

Thanks Ken. She's recovering nicely. She just has to take it easy for 4 more weeks. (Surgery was to remove an 8.5 cm non-cancerous cyst and such items to prevent a recurrence.)

 

I worked on my DCC++ system a bit more. I soldered a 7805 voltage regulator to it, and wired in a phone jack for throttle connection:

My order of warm-white strip LEDs, showed up, so I installed lighting in some passenger cars:


My Bowser Old Lady didn't have a drawbar or the piece for the back of cab, so I cut one from circuit board and I made a pattern and cut one from .060" styrene, respectively:

Unfortunately, the wheels seem to slip and it doesn't pull. As near as I can tell, one set of drivers is not making good contact with the track, so it's going to take some work.