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Post by JCON on Jul 5, 2024 16:26:53 GMT -6
Nice kits Mark!
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Post by BUCKY on Jul 5, 2024 22:08:31 GMT -6
A couple of great ones, Mark! I have one of those Lincoln kits.
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Post by JCON on Jul 5, 2024 22:55:04 GMT -6
A couple of great ones, Mark! I have one of those Lincoln kits. You should do a mini group build together.
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Post by Beekster on Jul 6, 2024 8:44:24 GMT -6
These arrived yesterday from Rix Products, which has several brands including Pikestuff. I envision the quonset hut being something of an office/warehouse for the Maintenance of Way yard, along with the boxcar shed. The windows and doors are for that project and for stock. Rix an Pikestuff have a lot of structures of varying sizes and types as well as expansion sets and details like this so that you can do some kitbashing to suit your needs. I will look more carefully at some of those before I settle on a structure for the logging company shop. Walthers has a couple of nice options, but in both cases I would need two kits for a single structure. Why? I need at least one vehicle bay door to be about three scale feet taller than the others...yarders are tall, you know, even in HO scale.
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Post by Dukemaddog on Jul 6, 2024 14:10:36 GMT -6
Thank you guys! Bucky just say when and we can start our Lincolns together.
Beekster, I build two of those very huts; they are pretty cool!
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Post by Beekster on Jul 6, 2024 15:16:43 GMT -6
Thank you guys! Bucky just say when and we can start our Lincolns together. Beekster, I build two of those very huts; they are pretty cool! I agree Duke. Construction will be a bit fussy, but nothing too difficult. The way you have to build alternate sections so that joints overlap leaving some sections to be cut off at ground level is unusual but doing it that way allows the use of just one part for the whole of the semicircular structure rather than two or more. Undoubtedly saves on tooling costs since there's just one injection mold to machine.
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Post by BUCKY on Jul 6, 2024 20:06:38 GMT -6
Rest easy, Mark! It will be a while before I can start a 1948 Lincoln build!! LOL
Beekster, that quonset hut looks amazing! Do they make those in "G" scale? I'd love to have one for a diorama in 1/25 scale.
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Post by Beekster on Jul 7, 2024 7:30:55 GMT -6
No, Bucky, only in HO and N scale. Not nearly the variety of stuff out there for the big trains as there is for the smaller ones.
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Post by BUCKY on Jul 7, 2024 15:33:50 GMT -6
Bummer, Beekster!! Looks like I may hafta scratchbuild one!!
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Post by Robbo on Jul 8, 2024 7:58:28 GMT -6
Do you know what I've bought this year? Nothing
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Post by JCON on Jul 10, 2024 16:42:14 GMT -6
Do you know what I've bought this year? Nothing Lol Ian!!!
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Post by BUCKY on Jul 10, 2024 22:17:15 GMT -6
Do you know what I've bought this year? Nothing That's quite alright! You've still been toiling away at the bench, turning out some beautiful work.
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Post by trainwreckpete on Jul 19, 2024 18:11:09 GMT -6
My latest acquisitions. I picked up the Herald at a garage sale a few weeks ago. These complete kits were a major score for me. I bought all four for $40 Canadian! The B-52 is an original issue.
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Post by JCON on Jul 19, 2024 18:21:34 GMT -6
Nice scores indeed!!! Looking forward to your building these!!!
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Post by BUCKY on Jul 23, 2024 11:06:00 GMT -6
Great grabs! I've never seen one of those Triumph kits.
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Post by Beekster on Jul 25, 2024 17:47:10 GMT -6
This arrived in the mail today: The vendor had several of these in either unlettered or railroad markings, and I wanted this particular one to get the yellow boom. While it's a Santa Fe color too, it's also a good general safety color. I'm undecided about whether to repaint the frame & body in my railroad colors or just patch it over the yellow lettering and add decals. The instructions are less than impressive and I do remember my Dad having a heck of a time assembling & rigging the thing because of that. Just one exploded diagram with part numbers that one must guess at. All the wee bits are in the tan envelope and of course there's no inventory list of what should be there. At least the bag is sealed so unless the factory messed it up fifty years ago it ought to contain everything that is required. I anticipate some challenges with assembly as a result of skimpy instructions and guessing what parts are what. A process of elimination will be necessary to sort things out. There's also some flash & sprue bits to clean up, and some filler for sinkholes on one part. Steel bits like the weight and the springs for the three windlasses are all rusty and need to be cleaned, primed, & painted. Same goes for the brass sheaves...no rust on those but priming & painting before assembly is necessary.
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Post by JCON on Jul 25, 2024 19:37:31 GMT -6
That will be a great addition to your RR...
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Post by Beekster on Jul 26, 2024 17:01:06 GMT -6
Yes, Joe, and a king-sized dose of nostalgia. I'm not exactly going to hurry this one to completion in the next couple of weeks, but I do want to get it done soon to show my Dad. His memory is spotty after the stroke a few years back, but every now and then you show him something and a neuron fires somewhere in his head and he remembers. I'm rather hoping that seeing the completed crane will trigger a recollection of building the same one for me half a century ago. I got a lot of enjoyment out of pulling it around the track and stopping to do something or other by winding the windlasses to lift or lower the boom and the two hooks. Maybe this time I'll look into creating a couple of realistic loads to hang off of it, at least whenever it's parked on a siding in the yard.
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Post by JCON on Aug 5, 2024 19:13:04 GMT -6
Picked up a new corner desk for my modeling area. Laptop will fit on the left side. Now to build some display shelves up the wall above...
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Post by BUCKY on Aug 6, 2024 10:13:35 GMT -6
Nice one, Joe! What are the dimensions on that desk? I need to replace a narrow built-in in the Hobby Shack. Your paint rack is pretty cool, too.
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