"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." So, here I am. Finally... My journey in model railroading is a continuous one, and after building a layout in HOn3 the last couple of years, I've now jumped headfirst into the dark side of model railroading; On30! As some may know, I live in Sweden and work as an artist/cultural heritage consultant. My former freelanced layout: the Minturn-Kings divide & Eastern was a Colorado based empire built in HOn3. The turning point was a realization that even though my eyesight actually has improved , my fat fingers aren't getting any nimbler.... A good friend of mine decided to dismantle his On30 layout and sell me a bunch of the stuff. How could I say no? So, with a MMI K-27, a Goose and a bunch of other On30 stuff, I'm going to rebuild my layout into a On30 layout. The new layout will be based on the south western part of the narrow gauge circle, and be named the San Miguel Central RR. So, if anyone has any good pointers on how to be successful in this new (to me) scale, please chime in!
Glad to see you back! I know what you mean about fingers not working as well anymore, I'm a mechanic and it gets tougher over the years, more aches and all. Looking forward to your posts!
Glad to see you back, shame you given up on the HOn3 but enjoyed seeing your work and suspect you'll be just as good or better in On30! Looking forward to it!
So this is the first O scale build getting started. Yorke's Pool hall & Bordello in 1:48. I have built it in H0 before so I have some knowledge of how to build it. It will be fun to test my skills on a kit in O scale!
Some progress on the saloon. I designed the interior in Fusion 360 and sliced it in Chitubox for preparing it to print on my trusty old Anycubic Photon S resin printer. This is how the file look for the wall. And this is fresh from the printer: I use a water soluble resin as it is much less toxic. After trimming the supports and hardening it in the UV chamber, I glued it together with CA. Theres a bit more sanding and a bit of filler needed at the joint, but I think it will look smashing!
I primed the back wall with Tamiya dark brown. Then I added some drybrushing and painted the pillars black.. The walls are maybe going to get wallpaper, I haven't decided yet....
That's the last of the interior pieces printed and painted for the Saloon, except for the chandelier... I think it'll be nice when finished.
I primed the floor with Vallejo IDF sand: I had some wallpaper printed out and glued it to the walls, it wrinkled nicely vertically, which made it more life like: It's getting there:
Drinks are served! I weathered the floor a bit and glued the interior in place. Now for the rest of the detailing. I haven't decided which type of light fixtures to use yet.
First test of my K-27 #454. It sure is big compared to the HOn3..... Now it's time to rip out the HO and HOn3 and rebuild the layout to On30!
I got this Bachmann 4-6-0 in On30. The plug between the locomotive and tender was broken (the wires were broken off...). So after some repair work I tested it:
