I have seen a bunch of Lionel's work, and as good as it looks in a photo, it's 10 times better looking in person! Really! I have one of Lionel's buildings that I traded for some boxcars, and it looks great on my module. You have a really nice collection Jürg!
Tim are those tractors ready? They look great! Let me know. Jurg, you have a most impressive building collection. Great stuff!
Past two days I took a break from laying out my new layout since I'm waiting on 5 more turnouts and decided to build some structures. First one was a Marklin Signal Tower 2643 kit. I modified it by adding a new roof. I discarded the stock Marklin kit roof and used roof parts with etched shingles on them from one of my NSM 2-Story House kits and the capping material between the roof sections is 1/16th inch chart tape. I added a foundation using a 1/16th inch cut strips of Kibri stone sheet # 6910. The chimney is an Evergreen .06" rod with capping material made from 1/16th inch chart tape. I discarded the stock Marklin kit side trim parts and used Plastruct L-Shape 3/64th inch angle strips # 90501 in their place (a lot easier to use L-shape angle strips than gluing the two half of laser cut wood strips). The steps are Plastruct N scale steps # STAS-2 (1/200 scale) cut to fit. I painted the sides Polly-S Depot Buff F414278; the trim, windows and door Floquil Depot Olive F110044; the foundation a custom-mixed red brick color; the steps Polly-S Wood Tan 500061; the roof Testors Model Master Dark Tan 30219; the chimney Testors Model Master Burnt Metal Buffing Metalizer with a touch of Testors Model Master Flat Black 1749; and all the windows were "glassed" using Micro Mark's Micro-Glaze # 80894. After I took the photos I decided to apply a wash of Black Indian Ink Wash to the entire structure. Enjoy! John Bartolotto
"Needle Eye" Steam Locomotive parts Some more parts for the "Needle Eye" Steam Locomotive are on my workbench these days. This is tonight's work. A couple off new diamond shaped smoke stacks made in the milling machine. The one on the right is the one I think I'm gone use for the 2-6-0 locomotive.
Nice work everyone. I was going to relax today, but I could not sleep so I started writing instructions for my new kit. That required me to build the kit for the construction photos. Here is a picture that I will use for the boxshot, as it shows the bulkhead detail best: I built 3 of the 10' bulkhead cars today, and here is another of them. The load needs to be sanded down as it's kind of tall: And here is another of the 53' flatcars without bulkheads that I built during the week:
The "310" number came from a sheet off water decals made by Microscale Decal. - H0 scale #87-558 Santa Fe Freight Cars 1988 w/24" Logo -
Been busy the past few months working on a Broadcast radio tower after I got one of the "Other Lionel's" little radio station building. http://www.zeelionel.com/kits.html As an ex-broadcast engineer, I needed more. Blair Line took care of that with the tower kit. But I needed more. First, it needed antennas (the ham radio and commercial side of me) but most of all lighting. So played with some .015" (0.4mm) fiber optics an like the looks. Next, I wanted to get an attention getter for our modules at shows so rather than a static KZZZ sign from Lionel's building, Kim Vellore came to the rescue with an EL panel to sequence our Bay Area Z "call letters" as K-BAZ. His PIC controller also can select which kind of tower lighting I want: strobe, slow on/off like classic towers, etc. More later as I finish it up. Now, If I can figure out how to link to My Albums....
Jeff, this is a nice looking Radio Tower. The upper part looks like BLMA, and the Antennas on the side looks like Gold Medal Items but what is the Rest (from Base to the middle)?
Looking good Jeff! Let see, we have Blama, GMM, Blairline, Lionel, Jeff, Kim, and myself all contributing on Jeff's project.
Yep, everyone's been working on it. Bob, sorry I left you out with the laser work. Was a big help with the tower legs bases. Jürg: Top of tower parts as you noted plus some simpl round stock cut very short and shaped for the microwave dishes. Need to put some logos on the front 'covers'. Tower is Blair Line, round base supports are 2 pieces stacked, laser drilled to shape of tower leg so it can set in and 3 holes for the fiber optic to try and reduce the amount of light coming thru from the base. The big rectangular base is a double layer, one cut for wire routing for the LEDs. More pix on that as I get Kim's K-BAZ EL panel and building rework in place. I think this is My Album link: http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/817
as an experiment I am having a go at building two cranes for my future layout, here some pictures of the first crane being put together: start full of optimism and enthusiasm work in progress crane parts arriving for assembly Chris
Hi John, found them via card modelling forum their offer was in 1:87, 1:200 and 1:250 I have asked them whether they would be prepared to offer anything in 1:220 and here is the result. I have also another crane, which I will try building later: also: http://www.kartonbau-aktiv.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=2867 Chris
Hallo John, mein Z-Freund Manfred hat schon mal gebaut mit Pappe wie bei Chris (Bambuko), siehe Link (wenn du in deutsche lesen kann, ist Ok , sorry, ich kann nicht gut in Englisch schreiben ) : www.forstberg.de/45_tonen_kran.htm oder seine HP www.forstberg.de
