Welcome back to the gateway to the weekend. I hope you all had a good week, let's discuss what your weekend, model railroading plans are. Saturday: I'm still waiting to see when I can pick up my father from hospital but with any luck, it will be Saturday afternoon sometime. His procedure was Tuesday and he has been recovering ever since. Depending on what his status will dictate my Saturday. Sunday: Hopefully dad will be back. Since he will not be able to do any working activities I'll be helping out where I can. One project I need to work on is to replace the fuel tanks on my grandfathers old F-150. Since it is an 1987, it will not be too bad. I unfortunately was not able to bring my layout with me as I was running out of time on Monday. Now I wished I had as I ended up getting to New Hampshire 45 minutes quicker than I did when I came out in May. Oh well. So how about you? What do you have planned for the weekend? Let us know. We'll come back on Monday the 7th to see how we all did. Until then, have a great weekend, be safe and as always... High Greens!
Hope your dad continues to improve Jim. Prayers Not much in the way of trains in store this weekend. Last weekend before my son heads off to college so lots of last minute stuff to do. We also have our regular errands to do, laundry and dinner with friends Saturday night. Maybe I'll get lucky and find an hour or two to run some trains. Wishing you all a great weekend!
@Jim Wiggin, best to your Dad and a speedy recovery. Happy Friday all. Hopefully will be cooler here in central NC this weekend. The plans this weekend are to continue working on the "mountain" structure now that I have the tunnel liners installed. While it won't be finished by a long shot, I'd like to get it to a reasonable stopping point and move on to something else. I also yesterday received some red "120V" tags I had printed up. These will be installed w/ LED's located on the fascia, adjacent to each "power strip" I have hidden around the layout as a reminder to turn off as I leave the room for the day. I may get these installed as well. Hope all have a peaceful and productive weekend whatever you are doing.
Happy TGIF to Y'all, @Jim Wiggin -- Praying for your Father's continued recovery. This is my Mother's birthday weekend. So, not sure how much MRRing I will get in. (And - that's OK) However, I do hope to at least get my next project a bit further along. Holes drilled and further prep work. What I'm starting with: (To be St.LSW - Cotton Belt- units) Y'all have a great weekend -- stay cool, Wolf
Prayers for your Dad's recovery, Jim. Since I was at the Scout Jamboree for two weeks, I'm considerably behind where I should be on this semester's research paper. I've spent several days this week downloading scholarly articles, so my plan is to read them and highlight useful bits today, Friday and get a start on writing Saturday and Sunday so I can turn in something that resembles a draft on Monday morning. Sunday, of course, will be church, followed by our monthly business meeting at the Sebring Model Railroad Club. I've already prepared the treasurer's report so I'll present that, as well as a couple proposals to buy business card sized invitations for our November open house, as well as yard signs, and a budget for promoting and advertising online. A decade ago, attendance at our open house was double or triple what it's been lately, and since no one reads newspapers anymore (except me) we just can't get the word out the way that they did in "the old days." But adding a couple hundred people to our attendance would make a big difference in our club budget. I would, of course, also be interested to hear how your clubs promote your activities. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk
Good morning from sunny and warm Northeast Ohio. Jim best wishes for you and your dad and for a speedy recovery. Not much going on recently on model railroading as I have had a number of meetings regarding the upcoming bowling season including one tonight along with some practice. Saturday will be a club layout day and I need to finish up a couple of cars and a GP9 over the weekend. I also picked up Kato RS2 for a good price and will be detailing and painting it for the Ann Arbor. Have a good weekend! Rick Jesionowski
I've been out of the modeling game for years, but recent picked it back up. Other than poor close vision, little has changed (with me at least). I will be traveling, but am bringing a container of tools, modeling parts and kits with me to work on. Last trip a few weeks ago, I built these signals in my hotel room... These are Showcase Miniatures N scale kits. Simple to build and they look great. I have one more signal to finish, and another signal that I will build, then will paint, decal and test LEDs. If they test good, I'll install the LEDs and will eventually have operational signals. That promises to be the really fiddly part, threading 8 extremely fine magnet wires down the 1mm O.D. brass tube that serves as the signal mast. The mainline signals that have dual heads requires 2 LED assemblies, so 8 wires total. The siding signals only use 1 LED. For the complete build, see my layout thread: N scale D&RGW Secret Places Sub layout progress If that goes well, I built some basic whistle, flanger, milepost and tunnel number signs. Those need paint and decals as well. If I still have energy and my eyes haven't bugged out yet, I have a Baldylox 3D-printed model of a Jordan Spreader to assemble...
Good morning everyone, Jim, my best wishes for your dad's full recovery. I'll be working on some diode matrix circuits that are part of the controls for my friend's staging yards. Also got a couple of my locomotives to take a look at that are not running. May also work on some more car cards. Everyone enjoy the weekend whatever you are doing.
@Jim Wiggin, I am glad your father is recovering. I am trusting he will be 100% soon. @BNSF FAN, I think you are on to something. Take your laundry and some take-out over to your friends and let them wash the clothes. 120V tag reminders. Good idea. "Cotton Belts". I like it. Yep. Media has change over time. Gotta' love a new RS-2! @HemiAdda2d, signals look fine! Sounds like someone is back in the matrix. This past week was spent wrestling with cab walls. The laser cuts proved to be fragile as one (thankfully) window frame was damaged by handling. This piece looked more delicate than the other five. I attribute this to "laser cut variance". Just a random occurrence. (Inexpensive laser) Anyway, as of earlier today, all walls are attached to each other and floors. Next will be roof forming. I do have a working plan and it is rainy here so maybe stuff gets done. Have a safe time and be fun.
I hope everyone has a good weekend. It’s been a long couple of weeks at work but I feel like that’s getting under control and my list of house/yard work and chores is now manageable. Unpacking has given way to organizing and hanging photos/art/etc up on the freshly painted wall. Some of that organzing will model train focused, and that will be really nice. I need to do a few chores/grocery shopping and weeding-but I’ve got some tomatoes (Roma and 4th of July) and peppers (bell and Carolina reapers) ripening so my labor I starting to bear fruit…and vegetables, haha. Maybe I’ll start this weekend by putting the foam board down and letting it dry while I work through the chores. We’ll see. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Saturday: Trips to BJ’s, PetSmart, produce store, and grocery store. Some time may be dedicated to doing laundry and gardening. Sunday: Doing whatever did not get done on Saturday. I am working on making a trailer train using my Bowser Reading Century C-630 locos. However, I am getting the feeling that as the length of the train increases more power may be needed. Therefore, I want add decoders to my Bowsr Alco Demonstrators Century C-628’s and add them to the consist. I fixed one of the troublesome Rapido TOFC’s and I would like to fix the other two. If I have time I may even try to run two trains at the same time and video them.
He says Carolina Reapers like they're sweet bell bell peppers that everyone grows.... I sweat just thinking about peppers THAT hot...
I love spicy food and I always dice some type of hot pepper and throw them in my eggs on the weekends-I could get jalapeños most of the time in Japan and if I was really lucky I could get poblanos, but now that I’m back in the US I am really excited I can get these, ghost peppers, habaneros, etc fairly regularly. Also going to try my hand at making my own hot sauce. Just going to have to be really careful to wash my hands very throughly after I dice them before I touch anything else. Made that mistake once and got careless with a ghost pepper a few years back. Not fun. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Had another of those power outages - always the same 2660 customers, always when there's a little rain or a strong breeze. Started yesterday evening around 8:40 pm and came back on three hours ago around 4:15 pm. Modeling will be in multiplexing mode, during clothes washing, etc. Tomorrow will be restocking my fridge (would have done that this morning, but for the lack of Hertz in the plugs) and washing my clothes so I'll have clean duds for going back to work on Monday (assuming I remember how to get there...). But I did go out this morning to the LHS and got me a package of Kadees so I can start refitting some cars from horn-hook to Kadee #5s. Also, with no power, sorted out my couplers and emptied all those little envelopes with just draft gear into a plastic container. Lots more room in my coupler bin! Also walked out with an old-ish Roundhouse wood side boxcar lettered for Wabash. The box looks like it's from the 60s or 70s, and lists its head office in Los Angeles. It's not in the usual dark blue scheme or the red and orange colors. It's not glossy like the others. The boxcar is in very good condition.
Since I am so far from any decent content on my garage layout project I hope to convert my freemoN dry river bridge module to a water filled river. In Socal most rivers are dry until there is a fair amount of rain and this scene is from Piru Ca. I am not sure if I should just paint the dry river bed and pour some tinted water or add a bunch of river rock and make it a rough creek bed. This actual bridge generally is a sandy wash so maybe I will stick to that. Down river is a rocky white water flow area. Could be interesting. I'm leaning to the sandy wash full of water idea as I could capture reflections of trains on the bridge.
Painting my rubber rocks has seen some reversals because I failed to prepare enough quantity of color washes and I lost the color consistency across all of the pieces I was looking for. So, will be working to rectify that. Mixing colors is a tricky thing.
I'm thinking a dark standing water where it pools a bit in the foreground. Of course a backdrop which includes that hill would add to it.
