Yea, the locale gun shop got in a nice M1A Garand for 1000$ but i spent my budget on my second M4 before I found out they had one ... dang ! or is it Bang !!! shootin N scale is pretty tough ....
Better put the Garand on the credit car before it is classified as a weapon of 'mass destruction' along with your Daisy BB gun. Jim hboy:
A picture of the BMann 2-6-0 and Atlas 4-4-0 on my Pianotop loops, would not add to anyones day. But, I will rave about both units. I wasn't so happy with my first 4-4-0, buy Atlas has that in for repair, and that' more than good enough for me. The second is a champ.
John, I did , I went down to the Army Surplus store this morning and bought it and 40 rounds and 5 clips before someone else got . $1089.00 . Made at Springfield with US stamped just above the serial # and name... I just love my Discover card ... I keep discovering ways to use it ! And I used it to order from BLI DCC UP E6 A and B units due this June ... I cannot wait .... Life gets any better and I will faint dead away ..... :teeth:
Got some Atlas single sheathed 40' box cars, to go with a set of Army Transportation Corps decals I got from Modern Rails. Unfortunately, the cars I got don't match the prototype, and so the decals won't fit. Looks like Life-Like has one that's close enough. Will have to replace the roof walk on it.
Just got back from Dupage show !!! They didn't have ANYTHING I was looking for so I settled on the following: AHM B&M longitudinal hopper, Atlas ICG 40' box car, Concor ICG 50' flat, M/T ICG 50' flat, Kadee (yes,Kadee !!!) ICG 40' & 50' box cars, M/T set of AT&SF flats with AT&SF,BN and NW trailers, M/T Cotton Belt covered gon, three M/T Undec. trailers, IM Farmers Coop pink covered hopper, IM CN "Lifesavers" covered hopper, and LL AT&SF SW9. Also picked up some Corona, limes, and Santana's Greatest Hits !!! Cinco de Mayo, ya' know ??? Not sure what triggered the ICG binge other than the fact that it was there !!!
My latest: Trainworx/Fox Valley 5283 double door box cars--the waffle sides are actually individually-applied photo etch pieces...
I am still trying to figure out how I managed to live a little over 39 years without one of these babies.
I purchased too much stuff. My budget was two hundred dollars for this month cause I'm also saving for a new car. I got two Atlas C&O C630 Alco's, Kato yellow nose SF F7 AB, Kato Western Pacific F7 AB. And a bunch of Micro trains freight cars. Obviously I went over budget. Its hard to save when you have so much temptations.
Right Place, Right Time and Have The CASH Friend of mine got out of N-Scale. Let's see: An Athearn Challenger & Big-Boy, several Kato Mike's, 2 each Con-Cor 2-10-2's (w/decoders) a box with about 25-30 KD/MTL cars (in boxes) in it. Wife had FIT when she saw what I had bought and for how much. But my friend showed her what the going rate for all this stuff was, and then how much I paid for all of it. Came out to about 1/3 of the value of everything. She asked if he had any more to sell at that rate!!!
Jim, I love it and I haven't even run it yet! lol I'm going to get a couple of passenger cars for it to pull for those times I want to back date my Central Valley layout. I bought the Q version because the paint job on it is pretty close to the Bachmann Ten Wheeler I have. I think that once I change the 4-6-0 to a small tender, they'll have a nice family look together.
It is a Panavise 300 base with a Panavise Jr. 203 head. It is built well for what I want it for. I would not try to use this head to do any clamping of, say, pieces of metal that I want to mill down or anything like that, but I have often found myself wishing I had something I could use to hold pieces I am working on while I glue on a part or reinstall pieces or solder a connection. I have a standard size bench vise for the rougher tasks, like the already mentioned milling with power tools or large files.
My two newest Locos: Atlas SD60M FVM NS CR Heritage I'm going to have to take up stock in BLMA, since I have been buying locos faster than I can detail them... :teeth:
