Good morning, good evening, wherever you may be. Welcome once again to that gateway to the weekend. What is on your work bench this weekend? Let's find out! Saturday: I'm taking the Stang out for her first Cars and Coffee show tomorrow morning. It's put on by the dealership I worked at and bought my Mustang at. My future Father in law will be there too with his beautiful 1995 Cobra SVT. Once the car show is over, the Mustang and I will travel to my not so local hobby shop to pick up an order of B&M GP9's and Evans 50 foot boxcars in, um HO. I'm also planning on picking up some Micro Engineering code 70 track and turnouts. If the weather stays nice, I hope to start working on the brackets for the layout room / home office. Sunday: I don't have any real plans, but I'm seriously contemplating on purchasing two 18 inch wide hollow core doors from my favorite toy store and use the track I purchased Saturday to start work on a simple Lance Mindheim layout. We'll see, but with everything going on in my life right now and operations being my true love in this hobby, I might just finally pull the pin and go HO. So how about you? What do you have planned for this August weekend? Let us know. We'll be like the Beatles and "come together" again on Monday the 17th to see how we all did. Until then, have a great weekend, stay cool, be safe and stay healthy and as always... High Greens!
Both days - I plan on finishing up my SW9 project. As well as a Model T REA van for a friend - 1:48 scale. Y'all have a great weekend -- stay cool - stay safe!! Wolf
My weekend plans are mostly to avoid the high temperatures we are expecting (103-107F for the next week!) and also to test the PCBs that arrived yesterday. The IO board has been almost fully assembled, I need to remove one TSSOP-24 IC as there appears to be a solder bridge underneath it that I can't wick away with flux and desoldering braid. So likely will flood the area with flux and remove the IC entirely so I can clean the spot and redo that one IC. After that has been sorted I'll add the four screw terminals, four IDC headers and two RJ45 jacks. The CS board has also been nearly fully assembled and is ready for testing. Once basic testing completes (ie: able to generate DCC signal, read a CV, connect to WiFi, etc), I'll add the rest of the components to the PCB and test again with OLED/LCD/LCC connections. Pics of both are here.
This weekend I'll "probably" continue on w/ the scenery efforts of last weekend. "Probably" is my ticket to: I'll figure out what I am doing in the trainroom this weekend while drinking my first cup of coffee in there early tomorrow AM.
I'm going to finish painting the sky this morning on Boston Mountains Sub Division layout. They will be ready for Cynthia to paint background this afternoon. After installing them I'm not sure what will do the rest of the weekend but know there's plenty to do. Joe
(drum roll) Received my track order earlier this week. I am going to be building the benchwork for the first layout. Starting out small with a 2x4 tabletop modular. I'd like to go bigger but need to be able to get it out of the basement at some point. I've chosen a very simplistic layout design using sectional Code 80 track and DC. Theres more info in a member intro forum post I made a couple weeks ago. I'll probably repost the relevant parts of that in a layout progress thread, if allowed.
Have to meet my brother in Chattanooga either Saturday or Sunday. He's supposed to let me know which day this afternoon. I hope to spend some time on the free day getting the last two sections of fascia attached to the layout. I'm sure I'll continue with my quest to get all the wheels on my truck trailers painted. Then who know what else I will get into if there is time. Hope you all have a great weekend!
My plans for this weekend: 1. Saturday take part in club's first "fun run day" in about 6 months. 2. Saturday Celebrate my 80th B'day with daughter and her family. Beer and Pizza, yum! 3. Sunday complete my latest truck build, it is looking good. Photos Monday And all the time, I enjoy looking at the work of all of you very talented TB friends. See ya, stay well, Carl
I finally got my airbrush working again and figured out how to use it again. I did some practicing. This weekend I hope to use it to weather a few cars. I have a bunch of reefers, a coupler or boxcars, a couple of cabooses, and a covered hopper to weather. See how far I get this weekend.
We have youngest daughter's socially distanced dance recital Saturday. Plus the weekly lawn battle. But, if Tracking is to be believed I should receive 20 pre-wired warm white 0402 SMDs today, along with a power modulation circuit board, so I cna do some structure lighting installs . . .
Still working on the shifter. Got drive wheels and cylinder assemblies installed. Still having to do some railcar adjustment/rework after install the drive "unit" under the main line. I have three cars on the work table now.
A couple of years back, I acquired a used, bashed together HOn30 diesel critter. Yesterday I got it out. Started thinking of some ideas to slightly modify it for my own road. Might start that work. I have the parts, paint, etc...
Actually got it in a little mid-week modeling. Bent some wire and test fit the cut lever on the back of the tender. Needs a little tweaking to finish, but set it aside until after painting. Attached the crossmembers to support the walkway "wings" and cleaned up the bunker. Other than mundane chores I should have time to add a few things to the project. 1. Coal board extensions and rivets to the bunker. Need a few more rivets to arrive in the mail before I can finish those. 2. Attach the planks to the "wings." I have some brass strips on order that I need to really finish that assembly. 3. Add ladders between the lower and upper walkways. 4. Maybe I can add a few other things if time allows. Stay safe
I'm just gonna play it by ear as the weekend progresses. No set in stone plans although I have decaling and kit building to do. And of course the weekly food prep. We'll see. Enjoy the days.
Family company on Saturday, so no train work. It is stinking hot here (105 today, supposed to be 108-109 Saturday and Sunday, so I will be inside all the time. I will probably work on a small wood project, two plaques for railroad herald pins of the lines that run on my layouts. I will mount those on the fascia flanking the new control panel.