Welcome back everyone. I hope you are ready for the weekend, let's see what everyone has planned. Saturday: Work. Sunday: No idea. Thursday's are my usual day off since working for the dealership but I ended up working almost all day there yesterday, so Sunday will probably be the day I work on all the domestic duties I usually address on Thursday's. I may look at a map or train picture if I have time. So how about you? What do you have planned? Let us know. We'll assemble again on Monday the 13th to see how you all did. Until then, be safe, stay healthy and as always... High Greens!
Saturday - Finish up decaling my SW-8 and a couple of S-2s'. Continue with my downtown rehabilitation project. Sunday - Up until noon - see above. Then we are off to a friends house for some social - social distancing. Y'all have a great weekend - stay cool and run trains Wolf
Heading to Chattanooga Saturday to get back to cleaning up the parents house. Not sure if we will spend the night or not so maybe no trains this weekend. However, if I do get some time, I have some traffic cones to paint and a new building to start on. Hope everyone has a safe and fun weekend!
Plans at the layout or in the workshop will be somewhat curtailed this weekend. Our office is in the middle of one of those periods where several projects are coming due around the same time (next week). So I will have to pull some work-time at home this weekend. Nonetheless, I still plan on chipping away at my station scene and maybe starting decaling on a couple of cars I have sitting there painted. Decaling is one of those projects I can do a little, get to something else. There will be some modeling this weekend, but not as much as I would normally like. Nice problem I guess. Work on the weekend, so I get to buy more trains!
I have been on vacation since Wednesday. I have been hitting the aircraft hangar hard. It should be finished today then I will get to decaling some aircraft and start painting the module. I painted the fascia last weekend and added the UR92 and UP5 panels Wednesday. Sunday I will be going camping. Since I am on a deadline to get a bunch of stuff finished for July 25 I will be taking a model with me to finish up. Since I will be out of town u til Wednesday I won’t be able to report back until then. Everyone enjoy your weekend.
Today/Tomorrow the plan is examine and reflow this board: and assemble a couple more. Soon thereafter the plan is to rework the CAN driver to work on this PCB using the RJ45 connectors (not soldered on yet) to both power the PCB and enable communications for LCC.
Honestly, with summer, no ability to get to a hobby shop, minimal modeling supplies...oh I can't wait for the mail person to deliver my new projects...
I finally got the 16 models decaled. They will be clear coated tonight or tomorrow. Nasty hot and humid out in the garage right now. In the mean time I'm breaking out the new photo studio light box to practice taking pics. Then there are the house chores and cooking. One constant I can always count on. Enjoy your time.
Well! Where did the week go! This past week, the turnout upgrades were completed. They even have a type of dwarf signal associated with each turnout. Just lucked on to that idea. They still need some tweaking but are a great improvement over the older type. We will see how well they wear. I hope to get a pic on here soon. Right now, I have ten rolling stock in the car shop for repair/upgrade and so on. Some had the older running gear hardware including one or two "hybrids". The shifter also needs re-shopping as well due to an error I made. Imagine that! I continue to hope all are well. Have fun and be safe.
As Dave says "there are the house chores". I will be vacuuming carpets and mopping tile. I will work into my rest time the completion of my 2nd Chevron tanker truck. I need to get it completed before I move on to another project. Next weekend the 18th & 19th I will be replacing cracked radiator and all hoses in my 2001 GMC Sierra. Never a lack of "roundtoits". Stay well, Carl
Not a clue. I have a NYO&W Manuta 2-8-2 camelback I need to change couplers. There are a couple of cabooses to weather. I have some decals to do, some lettering to remove. Then there is the huge pile of kits and RTR to build and weather. I could just run trains.
Been away for two weeks so I am itching to work on UP 2295. Started the "low fiber diet" preparation for a colonoscopy next week. Required to eat all the things I am usually told to avoid; white bread, meat, cheese and no vegetables. Monday I am required to get a COVID-19 test before I can go to the clinic on Wednesday. A weekend of modeling trains is just what I need. Saturday: Start early with some Premier League soccer. Then bacon, eggs and toast. OK, diet isn't too bad! Aside from some minor domestic responsibilities I should have ample modeling time. Here is the current state of the tender: Sunday: More of the same, I hope. Stay well everyone. See you on Monday.
I think once the lawn is cut I will build some more turnouts at the air conditioned workspace. We could hit 110 today and tomorrow and the modules are in the garage. Looking forward to new track kink repairs. Even with expansion gaps there is always something moving out of place.
My weekend plans are to figure out what's up with my 3D printer, hopefully fix that and finish two Little Joe kits that have been sitting incomplete for two weeks now. If I'm successful early on I may have time to get back to my heat tender kit which is nearly done.
Mike, looks like a cool project. Wishing you the best luck on your 3D printer. See you later here on Trainboard and the Frisco website. Joe
The mail lady was good to me today. She delivered a package from N Scale kits containing a pair of Pacific Electric Hart Convertible Gondolas and a package from Washington State with a 1974 Kadee Pacific Electric boxcar! Soon, it will be time to bust out the files and start building these. I plan to build one as a gondola and one as a hopper. I will have loose loads in them. My entire Pacific Electric freight car roster, the second boxcar is the Kadee car.