Well its 11-11-11, what are you doing at 11:11am? I don't watch TV much but I'm sure someone somewhere is saying its the end of the world or something. Anyway, it's Friday and also Veterans Day, so please, please thank a Vet. Were it not for them, we would not have the freedom to enjoy our lives as we do. Also, please remember our service men and women who continue to serve our country. My plans this weekend is to hopefully get everything done on nscalerones locomotives. Time has been limited this past week. Decals are done, just need to re-assemble, number boards and perform so dry brush weathering and they are done. I also want to get some cars for a friend weathered up and sent back to him. I'm planning on making chilli on Sunday night and working on the layout while I watch my NE Patriots take on the local favorite here, the NY Jets. Should be a good game. So what about you? What are your plans this weekend? Anyone going to Milwaukee Trainfest this weekend? Leave your responses below and we'll see how we all did on Monday.
On this Veterans' Day, I'm thinking of my dad, who not only started my interest in trains, but also served his country in the US Army. Dad's moved to Arlington, so to speak, and hopefully I can fit in a visit sometime soon. Now, as for modeling, I've been slightly distracted by work work, but I was able to redesign my Herndon Depot (W&OD Railroad) paper model kit file, including adding a model of a center cupola caboose. I printed a test run on some card, but unfortunately either the cyan is clogged, or it just ran out, so I'll need to get another ink cartridge as soon as I can find the time and money simultaneously. On the bright side, the one side of the building that printed out in full color looks loads better than my original one (which used a stock line-art drawing for the vertical siding boards), especially since now it's in the real colors, from a real photograph of the actual station. Also, the caboose was printed on the part without the cyan, but I cut it out and built it up for a test fit. I'll be revising it based on my results, but here's a quick photo of it along side of my earlier build of the station (pardon the focus, this was just a quick snapshot)
Planning on getting one switch laid and operational, begin on the other 2 in the yard. I want to get the yard tracks and switches done before I lay the main line and the crossover. I really need to think of what type of system I am going to use to begin constructing the 2.5% grade out of the yard and begin planing for that. I really need a smaller power drill than my B&D Fire Storm, so I can drill holes for my feeders to drop through. My drill is too big to fit in between levels on the bottom level. Also doing the usual watching the West Virginia @ Cincinnati game and the Steelers @ Bungles game and church and all the usual weekend stuff.
For Friday 11:11:11 I am going to build a 1:1 Chicken Coop for the wife. The rest of the weekend get unitrack sorted for clearance. And then I have a small trackside transfer building I can work on.
I will hopefully get most of the work done on the scrapyard. I built all the wood plank fencing last weekend. Now, I need to make up some Moxie decals and a few others for the fence. The yard itself is in an awkward place, and will be difficult to work on. Fortunately, most of what needs to be done is just dirty-ing up the surface and adding the piles of junk, which I've already painted up and mounted on foam roadbed bases to raise them up a bit and make them look larger. I've got the walls together for the office, and the yard lights are ready to install as well, so hopefully it will all go quickly. And then? It's decision time. I've got a large open area at the east end, which will have the Railway Express depot. That's a laser kit that's not built yet. I think I'll make a cardboard mock-up so I can think about placement. Even with that structure, though, the space will be pretty empty. The devil makes work for idle hands, but Walthers makes kits for idle layout space. I think it's time to start the carfloat terminal at Mooseport. Thanks to the wonders of use-it-or-lose-it vacation days, I will be taking a significant amount of time off over the last six weeks of the year. I bought the Walthers carfloat kit and the associated apron during the brief production run a few years back, so that's the basis of the scene. The plan is to build out a hinged section of the benchwork, so the carfloat itself will be removeable, and the underlying benchwork can be folded out of the way when I need to get back in there to work.
Maybe this weekend I can further refine the colors on the rocky mountainside at Tunnel 26. Here's the latest:
We'll be on the road. Headin campin. So... no trains for me. Just good friends and good times!! See you guys on Monday. Have a great weeken, Wolf
Ummm. You must be single? If my wife read I 'd written that, I would find myself living in a dog house.
My hope is to finish wiring a T-Trak module. Started, got distracted by other household stuff and never got back at it again. Argh!
I'm busy with backdrop for the Pueblo & Salt Lake RR and turnout building. Now a turnout with adjacent transition track is on the workbench. Wolfgang
I'm hoping to go to the lumber store tomorrow bright and early and get some materials to start my benchwork. Want to get it all of the big things to the house before the snow starts to fly. I'd also would like to unpack everything since we moved and sort out what I have. The previous owners left an old dresser in the basement where the railroad is going to be built, and instead of hauling it upstairs, I'm going to section off the drawers and use it for supplies.
I'll be working international Railfair this weekend starting with setup as soon as I leave work. So aside from planting a few last minute furnace filter trees, no modelling.
My club has another show this Sunday at the Poughkeepsie Civic center in Poughkeepsie, NY. The show runs from 10A to 4P. I'll be setting up and running our 20' X 20' HO layout and i'll also have my T-Track modules in another layout there. Hopefully my signals will cooperate and work on the modules. We'll have the HO layout, N scale T-Trak layout, an 8' X 8' Lionel layout, a small Thomas G scale layout and a small N scale layout.