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There was also a little hole-in-the-wall hobby shop in downtown Framingham, where I bought my PFM 4-4-0 Reno model. I saved a lot of allowance for that one... dave Modeling 1890s (because the voices in my head told me to) Country: USA | Posts: 7321 Orionvp17 Fireman Premium Member Posted - 03/24/2015 :  12:22:16 PM     Fitts Photo and Hobby in SW, and Joe Brown's on Kendall St. in Framingham. Discussions available off-list-- this is James' thread.... Pete in Michigan Country: USA | Posts: 6277 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 04/01/2015 :  11:25:41 PM       Thanks; I dug up an appropriate thread if you guys want to bump it: http://www.railroad-line.com/discussion/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=32743&whichpage=1 After I got back from the Finescale Expo, I buckled down to clean up projects ahead of Saturday's op session. First, I made a canopy out of JTT corrugated styrene and Evergreen .080 and .125 I beam for Acme's newer dock: Then I built a dock to match it: Scalecoat 'Aged Concrete' is a little darker than Floquil 'Concrete', but the design is intended to suggest the curved dock was added when Acme moved in. Paint's drying now, I'll assemble it in the morning. Country: USA | Posts: 5711 Orionvp17 Fireman Premium Member Posted - 04/02/2015 :  12:37:27 AM     Looks good so far, and I'm looking forward to seeing the "assembled" photos. But right now.... Pete in Michigan Country: USA | Posts: 6277 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 04/02/2015 :  8:51:29 PM       Thanks, Pete. There's more roof work to be done, window glazing, some attention to the doors, then signs and finally detailing. But the canopy and dock are done: Country: USA | Posts: 5711 Orionvp17 Fireman Premium Member Posted - 04/03/2015 :  7:18:00 PM     Like. Pete in Michigan Country: USA | Posts: 6277 nhguy Fireman Posted - 04/03/2015 :  7:33:48 PM         Yup. I agree. Nice work. Oooooo.look. An X29 boxcar! Bill Shanaman New Haven RR Hartford Division in Colorado. Country: USA | Posts: 4763 Mike Hamer Engineer Posted - 04/03/2015 :  8:27:53 PM       The canopy and dock look great, James...a must have for that cool looking structure! Mike Hamer Ottawa, Ontario, Canada http://www.bostonandmaine.blogspot.ca http://www.craftsmanstructures.blogspot.ca http://modelrailroadsivisit.blogspot.ca Country: | Posts: 11492 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 04/03/2015 :  9:02:23 PM       Thanks, Pete Bill & Mike. The X-29 is an old Trains-Miniature car with simple modifications to improve the looks: I filed the running board down to about half it's original thickness and trimmed the door 'claws' down to minimum size. It doesn't stand up to the Red Caboose die work, but it doesn't fail horribly as part of a mostly 'Green Dot' fleet on my layout. Country: USA | Posts: 5711 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 04/05/2015 :  9:12:35 PM       Since Saturday's op session I have: - Fixed the turnout that bothered the passenger cars - Loosened the truck pivot screw on the Rapido Osgood-Bradley coach - Fixed the yard throat turnout lever - Re-switched the misrouted freight cars - Restaged passenger & freight - Organized my timetables better - Charged the radio throttles Since I won't get the replacement PSX-1 circuit breaker till the middle of next week, I moved on to other projects: Initially on kitforums and now on modelersforum, Tom Langford has organized a 'Traveling Freight Car' using Atlantic & Southern 3667, a loaded 55 ton hopper car. I picked it up at the Finescale Expo in Scranton and it finally made its way across the Hudson and up to Boston today: Setting up for the photo shoot, I spent about three hours with four colors of paint on the DPM leftovers kitbash visible to the right of 4012. It's my first attempt at beige brick, using Floquil Depot Buff. It still needs mortar, when I figure out where I put my paste away. Finally, a brief note about my 'Floquil Life Extension' technique: I dip my brush in lacquer thinner and then in the paint that collects in the Floquil lids. I keep doing this till the lid is pretty much paintless, then start taking it straight from the bottle. The model gets essentially 'free paint' which would otherwise dry in the lid, the lid goes back on clean and none of the cheap lacquer thinner gets into the liquid paint itself, so it doesn't curdle. Country: USA | Posts: 5711 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 04/09/2015 :  1:21:11 PM       My upbringing didn't give me much knowledge of 'sin'. It wasn't till I was working as an engineer that I really came to understand how careless or convenient actions can have a price which WILL be paid someday: In 2007 I decided I really wanted an operating layout, which ultimately led to me building the Saugus Jct. turnout across the joint between some existing track and the new roadbed. And I sinned, twice: First, I didn't move the shelf bracket. Second, I decided to just drill through it and make the point rod hole oversize, using only the air gap to insulate between the two rails. I didn't apply insulation, I didn't even drill both holes oversize; the shelf bracket is at the potential of one rail. I am repenting (and re-doing) my sins now, after this led to a short circuit taking much longer than it should have to debug. Country: USA | Posts: 5711 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 04/27/2015 :  4:37:51 PM       Last week I completed the Acme Fast Freight kitbash. It still needs a billboard on the roof, but I need to learn GIMP better to get the colors more uniform. This also shows Busch flexible self-stick cobblestone (Walthers #189-7078) in the area between the two team tracks. I'll post more when my experiments at coloring it are thoroughly dry. Country: USA | Posts: 5711 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 04/28/2015 :  07:40:50 AM       An intermediate step in last night's GIMP activities produced this, which I post here for pre-1970 B&M modelers and anyone else whose prototype used similar signs: The original is at a museum in upstate NY, Steve Labonte gave me his photo. This isn't shown in any B&M plans I have, but I made GIMP print it 24" wide in HO. Edited by - jbvb on 04/28/2015 07:43:13 AM Country: USA | Posts: 5711 Orionvp17 Fireman Premium Member Posted - 04/28/2015 :  09:56:46 AM     Nice sign, James. Thanks for sharing that one! Pete in Michigan Country: USA | Posts: 6277 nhguy Fireman Posted - 04/28/2015 :  2:22:20 PM         quote: Originally posted by jbvb Since Saturday's op session I have: - Fixed the turnout that bothered the passenger cars - Loosened the truck pivot screw on the Rapido Osgood-Bradley coach - Fixed the yard throat turnout lever - Re-switched the misrouted freight cars - Restaged passenger & freight - Organized my timetables better - Charged the radio throttles Since I won't get the replacement PSX-1 circuit breaker till the middle of next week, I moved on to other projects: Initially on kitforums and now on modelersforum, Tom Langford has organized a 'Traveling Freight Car' using Atlantic & Southern 3667, a loaded 55 ton hopper car. I picked it up at the Finescale Expo in Scranton and it finally made its way across the Hudson and up to Boston today: Setting up for the photo shoot, I spent about three hours with four colors of paint on the DPM leftovers kitbash visible to the right of 4012. It's my first attempt at beige brick, using Floquil Depot Buff. It still needs mortar, when I figure out where I put my paste away. Finally, a brief note about my 'Floquil Life Extension' technique: I dip my brush in lacquer thinner and then in the paint that collects in the Floquil lids. I keep doing this till the lid is pretty much paintless, then start taking it straight from the bottle. The model gets essentially 'free paint' which would otherwise dry in the lid, the lid goes back on clean and none of the cheap lacquer thinner gets into the liquid paint itself, so it doesn't curdle. Have you had any problems on the OB passenger cars with the trucks hitting detail piping and derailing? I have had to trim down a few truck details (cut off)of my cars because of problems going around a 30" curve. Cutting these off helped fix the problem. Bill Bill Shanaman New Haven RR Hartford Division in Colorado. 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