<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by StickyMonk: ill post pics of them both when the body work is done and then some after they have been painted and weathered, all i am waiting for on the GP38E (GP30) is some new steps i cut them out and now i cant my hands on any etched ones, ill proberly use some from an athearn shell i got a few nocking arround, i changed the fans from the brass precision scale to the plastic train station products ones as they look a lot better and have fan blades as well. i think i will convert my Kato GP35 into a GP39V as some of them still retained the origonal rad grills the only major thing would be to remove the small rad fan. will you be posting pics of yours when you get them finished? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> As soon as I can figure out how to shoot pics, then transfer them to a disc to upload to my computer, I'll do just that! I need to do that to get shots of my family, as well as lotsa other RR stuff on so's I can use them on my Website. ------------------ Ship IT on the Frisco! Bob T.
More work for me!!! As Athearn is discontinuing the multiple run numbers and unnumbered versions of the C44 and AC44, I have been buying them up like crazy. I bought: 11 SP C44 (3 numbered, 8 un) 9 SP AC44 (2 numbered, need 267, rest un) 3 BNSF C44 (all un) Now, I have enough work to keep me busy until Christmas!! Unless someone wants to put on the small details and decals for me...HINT HINT
I just counted the "waiting to be built" section in my model cabinet. Present count: 72 kits. Its that danged E-Bay!!!!
I too had many more projects at hand than time to complete them. I learned a valuable lesson: don't buy too far ahead of my ability to construct the kits. By the time I got around to constructing some of them: 1) I no longer had a place to put them, 2) had changed the locale on the layout, 3) had a superior kit in mind to put in its place, 4) no longer liked the kit. I sold the unopened ones on eBay and now I'm almost current. BTW, I've worked hard at completing Alan Curtis' N scale kits - spine cars, 89' flat cars, container chassis, flatracks, finger racks and only have the 60' flat cars to go. Oh yes, just remembered those logging trucks, front loader, and....! [ 20 April 2002, 06:24: Message edited by: mc ]
<font color="336633">Well since this was started back in 2000, I now have 2 locos finished........ Yep only 2 in all that time oh well </font>
Just remember , old chap, its the quality of finished products, not the quanitity of jobs finished. Of course, you have spent a good quantity of hours, but those were quality hours, and you have a pair of nice additions to your roster!
I finally got the decals for my kitbash of sitckymonk’s container and chassis. So that's a project that is now close to finished... Soo Caboose - grab irons and hand rails removed but not yet replaced. Looks dangerous for the crew but I run it anyway SD60 mods almost done - planning to repaint and it will take time to convince myself that this is a good idea (to correct white paint on the long hood and move the cab vent to the correct location) Scratch building CP flat cars. Basically just big piles of styrene right now. one SD40-2 about 60% done - on hold while I catch up on a second SD40-2 so I can paint the pair at the same time. That SD40-2 is not yet started. Untouched Twin Stack. Two Accurail 89' flats about half done. Don't know how many containers/trailers in various states of dress. 4 unbuilt PS2 Covered Hoppers (one finished) It is safe to say I have more unfinished projects than finished.
and to think i thought i was the only one with this problem? i even have plastic car models in boxes that are "in progress", and i've decided my next money 'waster' is going to be 1/18 scale diecast cars that way they dont have to be built.
Er, guilty as well! Far too many unfinished projects out there, including: 1x FP45 (ATSF93, 1990's) 1x F45/2x SD45 + piggyback set (ATSF, 1970's) 1x U28CG (ATSF, 1960's) 2x FA1 (SP&S/BN, 1970's) Most of which are, well, wallowing at present. (I've got the bits to do them, just not the motivation!) There's other things that aregetting done however Stickymonk, you mentioned a B30-7B, i'm interested as I've just got hold of a Atlas LMX B40-8 and that would be a perfect companion for my modern intermodal set The Rock Springs group has been discussing it's new layout & it looks like it will be Pacific North West based, so my early BN stuff will be getting dusted off! All the best.
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Nice! Was the conversion kit okay, the results look pretty good Did it include the bits for the "late" dynamic box version that you've modelled, the pics on the Walthers site show it without? Thanks
<font color="336633">Yes the dynamic box came with the kit, but i also added the A1 Models C30-7 etched brass grills to the side of the dynamic and also to the top of the radiators. The only prob with adding it to the Bachmann B30-7 was that the roof contour of the loco and high-hood/convertion kit didnt quite match up. I think it would have been better to kitback an Atlas or a Railpower body and mate it to a Athearn U**B chassis, I used the Bachmann one as it will run with a dummy GP39V (railpower/athearn GP35 bash) and a Bachmann Spetrum GP39E (GP30 bash). I'll get some close ups of the diference in the roof contours if you like...</font>
Mmm yes, i'd like to see the difference, I have a Bachmann B30-7 in my "stored" pile, so it could use that, alternatively I was thinking of using the Atlas U23B as the chassis (got to MU it with another Atlas) & I don't know how different the U23B shell is (I know the rear radiator section is really different) Hmmm Choices Choices!
Echoing the status of other posters... I have a bazillion projects to do and scores of things started and not yet "finished". Whenever I am in a hobby shop or show, I purchase a kit or two. I have a couple of hundred cars over the last 16 years that I have painted and lettered. I have about 60 kits I have not touched. They run the gamit from Athearn, Tichy, Bowser, Walthers, unpainted brass stuff.. .you name it. Over my work bench I have a shelf that contains boxes of stuff I have started but not finished. Count those w/ the structures, scenes, thissa, and thatta on my layout and it sometimes seems overwhelming. This is a great thread....... makes me realize I am NORMAL!!!!!!!!! -Kitbash [ 23 April 2002, 12:22: Message edited by: Kitbash ]
Thanks for posting those. Hmmm, a bit of food for thought there, you can see the change in angles on those closeups quite well. I shall have to put a lot of thought into this The seethrough grilles have worked really well though, very nice work. Thanks again! [ 23 April 2002, 22:59: Message edited by: Martyn Read ]
