This weekend we have the grocery shopping torture. After that I am not sure what will happen. The kids have a birthday pool party to go to tomorrow. In the modeling world I need to decide on the next project and straighten a few things up on the layout.
I am going to try to detail some vehicles. That means mostly painting tires and rims and adding mud flaps to truck trailers. I try to get all this done before I add them to the layout. Right now I have more trucks off of the layout than on the layout! :giggle7yc:
My weekend will start tonigth ( home dinner with friends and a golden spike on a new layout!) Tomorrow is devoted to the "grocery shopping torture" ... But Sunday .... all the family (not me) go to the see : I can devote every second of a whole week to my lovely model! (ah, forget: I go to work in my spare free time = every day) cheers Enzo
Well, I've heard that one of the crossbeams has gone askew on the treadle, so that means I'll spend some time down at the mill. This is Branchline's "Weimer's Mill" kit. It took a few weeks to get up to Step 1, because I decided to detail the interior, since this will be a "foreground" structure on my layout. The mill is intended to be abandoned, so I put some fallen beams inside. That shot was taken before I put the fourth wall on. The insides will only be visible through the doors and windows: I got some of the windows and doors in last night, so I've got a few more to go. The next step will be the roof rafters and subroof.
After my yard chores. Now that I have all the car sides,core kits, trucks,36" FVN wheels,body mount couplers and decals, I can finally start on my long antisipated SP 1950 Golden State.In N scale of course. I have abeen waiting so long to start this project, I can hardly wait. Model on, Wolf
I have an MRC plug and play dcc w/sound module waiting to go into an N-scale Kato SD40-2. I heard the module in a Kato 4400 and decided it was worth the cost. It may not sound like it's HO, O or G cousins, but for a tiny speaker it does pretty good. Dave G Cache Valley & Northern RR
Only running a few trains. I was last time busy with my station. So I have to run trains again. :angel: Wolfgang
Hopefully get my new loco. For my birthday, I decided to buy an Athearn CSX AC4400. They didn't have it at the LHS, so the guy said they would get it in during the next shipment. For some reason, it didn't come in. He said to check back again. Hopefully they'll have it. If so, I'll be working with that!!!
I'm planning on weathering some Fox Valley wheelsets...and maybe the corresponding trucks. Also I'm going to design the table structure to hold my layout so that hopefully I can build the table next weekend, and maybe move the layout as well so I can resume work on it. It's currently on sawhorses, in storage at my parents'.
It is Sunday afternoon and I am enjoying the sound of an SD40-2 run around the layout. The MRC plug and play was a little more work than Digitrax PnPs. Had to un-solder the motor clips from the original light board and re-solder to the MRC unit. Not hard, just not expected. Other than that, pretty straight forward. Drilled holes in the middle roof fan for sound to escape. I plan to replace the fan with an etched brass one. Still have some programming to do for volume, horn sound, speed, etc, but for out of the package, it is pretty good! Dave G Cache Valley & Northern
