Another weekend is done and we're about halfway through March, hope you remembered to adjust your clocks. Saturday, I spent the entire day in the work shop. I cleaned and organized the last bits of stuff and even installed my stereo so I could listen to my favorite music and radio show while I work on stuff. Around 9:00PM, I assembled all the items I needed to start my B&M GP38-2 project only to find I need hand rails and for whatever reason, I had lost the cab. Two hours of searching on line yielded little, so I guess I'll have to order a new GP38-2 and strip it. Time and money. Sunday I spent the better part of the day working on the layout. I was hoping to get the plaster cloth down but I ran out of time. I did get the hill shaped and found that my soldering iron worked well for making ditches. The Potter Place spur was installed and soldered. Just need to plaster cloth the area and paint the track. So how about you? Looking at Trainboard this weekend, it looks like a lot of us were busy on layouts and locomotive detailing projects. Any shows? Let us know by posting a response below, and as always, pictures are appreciated. We'll come back here on Friday the 16th and do it all over again. ​High Greens!
The C630 I started last week is in progress. I did the black over the cab and long hood, and the white side sills. I added the big CN noodles on the long hood and the road numbers on the cab, and painted the handrails. Reassembling the cab headlight/numberboard/class light assembly was a heavy cuss job. Next up, finish decals, maybe add the snowplow, and other miscellaneous details.
It was the last weekend of skiing for the year, so I didn't get much done. I took Friday off (it was my birthday) and mixed up some Gypsolite to put between the tracks of the small yard that will service the car float. Then we drove up to Maine, skied, and when we got back it was all dry and ready for painting and turf. We're going to Italy for a vacation in a couple of weeks, and I followed my wife's orders on the ski slopes: "Don't get hurt." Accordingly, I only skied a few expert slopes and didn't take any chances. Just watch. Now I'll probably get burned on a soldering iron or glue my eyelids shut with CA.
I was sick over the weekend with a cold so I didn't go down to the museum. But I did work on a couple of my T-Trak modules as well as a switch installation project I have started for my club. I also began installing a PSX-2 circuit breaker on my clubs portable DCC command station.
My first thought was that I did not have any modeling accomplishments. But then, I looked around and saw that I did do some things. I replaced the decals on my DRGW SD40-T2 (I was over-zealous in my weathering of this engine). And I repaired the sign that had broken years ago (Someone scroll-sawed the DRGW logo out of wood and gave it to me as a gift). Additionally, I organized my workbench. Now I actually have a place to work on my engines. So although I did not accomplish any "modeling" per-se, I did get some peripheral work done that will aid in my future modeling. Hopefully next weekend I will have something more to contribute to this post. BTTW: Jim, thank you for providing/maintaining this post. I really enjoy seeing what other people are doing with their layouts.
Looks like we all had a decent weekend on our modeling! Mike: Feel free to post some pictures of your work. Mr Beasley: Funny you said something about the soldering iron, my arm seems to have found mine this weekend! Retsignalmtr: That is some nice work on that DCC Command Station! RG5378: Thank you! I can't take all the credit, TB member Tompm Started doing this thread way back in 2006. I picked it up last year and it has been going on since. It is a great way to help plan the weekend and it sure helps stir activity within all of us. Some work done over the weekend:
I got more work done on the Winery. "Planting" the roots/trunks of these vines has taken far longer than I originally thought. Hopefully the vines and leaves themselves will go fast. I also made a run to the local plastic models and military/RPG/Miniatures hobby shop to pick up some static grass spending less in gas than I would have in shipping.
