I stopped by the MOT the other day to see what they where working on and I wondered over to 1522 to take a look to see how she was fairing and all I can say is she needs a bath big time. I was telling a friend about my vist and he asked if I was ever going to finish my once started and put on the back burner 1522. I told him the reason for me even putting it on the back burner was I couldn't get the detail parts soldered on the way I would like too. After talking with him for a few seconds about my process he told me about paste solder and that was what he uses. I went to the hardware store and bought some, came home pulled the model out of the cabinet, unburried the resistance soldering contraption and WOW... It worked!!! I still need to do allot more detailing but this is almost 5 night's of work and I almost have the shell complete. I will post more after the shell is complete.
Pretty nice looking work there, Joe. What model did you begin with and what were some of the sources for detail pieces?
Holy cow! That is outstanding. I bet it's heavy. I would love to have a brass model one of these days. You do good work.
Don, I admired your 1522 sitting in Tinker Town for years and if mine turns out half as good as yours I will be happy!!
Keith, I started out with a Toby/PFM 1500 and as far as the detail goes, I used Cal-Scale, Corey, PFM and a few other brands all of which I have been collecting for years from train shows.
Very impressive Joe, The air reservoirs, piping, handrails and all. Nothing like the details you can put on a steam engine. With all the people that have been making parts castings all these years for almost every conceivable part, its just getting them on the project without messing another up for me. I need to get a resistance soldering iron. Been working on a RG L-131 for 17 years. Great work Joe, great indeed. Thanks for posting the pictures. Tom Holley
I am almost finished with the detail work and I started the conversion to dcc with sound. A friend made the FRISCO sign for me and I didn't have the heart to tell him the R is wrong, but if anybody would want one I'm sure I could talk him into fixing it. I don't know what he would want for one but I told him he should be able to get $50.00 for them.
Don't forget the little U shaped rain gutter above the cab sides. The crew gets crabby when rain runs down on them.
WOW!!!! Were is the "EASY" button when you need it.. I got allot done since the last post and I have started the paint process.
Outstanding! Great work. What color did you use for the roof? I'd really like to know. I need that exact color for my engines. I was going to recommend to you Paasche's Air Eraser. It's a hobby sand blaster. It works excellent for cleaning brass and it slightly etches for the purpose of paint adhesion. However, you've already gone and painted her and she looks great. What color for the smoke box? Thanks, Manny
Manny, I used scalecoat sp daylight red and smokebox grey. As far as sandblaster goes, I have a comco glass engraver. It works awesome..
Thanks Don! I would love to buy the 1500 from you just for the plating on the steam actuators. Let me know if you want to trade actuators, I can always blast mine and then clear coat it. Joe
Thank you for the information. Glass engraver, huh? Interesting concept. When I first read that I would have thought that it would be too powerful, with a cutting stream, rather than a gentle blast, but then again, if you have the air turned down low, I guess the stream of media wouldn't cut a piece of paper. Cool deal!
