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Post by wabashbanks on May 2, 2007 10:55:57 GMT -5
Here is a building I just recently finished for a layout I am going to be building soon. The layout will be built inside a stripped out computer monitor and will sit on my desk at work. The structure is in N scale and is a base 10X20 structure with a 5 foot lean to and a 5 foot wide dock added.     I decided to add a steam donkey in the freight yard. Here is a photo of it. I also have some construction photos of each of these if you guys want to see them.  |
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Post by LiveSteamer on May 2, 2007 11:05:49 GMT -5
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Post by extra7000south on May 2, 2007 12:28:51 GMT -5
;D Awesome Job.  |
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Post by wabashbanks on May 2, 2007 14:02:06 GMT -5
Thanks kindly guys.
I am into really getting things into proper scale. I use a medical loupe that a police officer friend sent to me. It measures things in .1 millimeter increments. It allows me to very easy tell when I am fudging sizes or not. The door handle as well as the door hinges are proper scale. I should probably take a comparison photo with a coin to get the idea across about how really tiny some of those things are. I am working on another project if you guys are interested in seeing it. It is a scratch built piece of MOW.
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Post by LiveSteamer on May 7, 2007 23:02:21 GMT -5
Yes let's see that MOW project. ;D
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Post by wabashbanks on May 8, 2007 8:47:28 GMT -5
Sorry about that! It slipped my mind. This line here has nothing to do with the actual post, I just wanted to see what teletype is...The car was originally a perfectly good flat and saw standard service. Then one day the crew noticed a small fissure in the side plate. The crack grew and she was yanked from regular service. The boys down that Crows Creek are a thrifty bunch and decided a little fishplating would take care of it. They used it for a work flat for quite a while until they needed to do some major track maintenance and needed a crane. Some quick work of adding a store room and the jib crane and they had themselves a great new crane car for the track repairs. This is the project to this point.    |
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Post by wabashbanks on May 8, 2007 8:50:48 GMT -5
Oh, the skin is .015 styrene over a base of .040 styrene. It is nice and rigid and will easily perform as working rolling stock. It was going to sit prototypically low on the wheels until I discovered a mistake I made. I shortened the car from the original plan. The area I shortened it in is the angle from the narrow to the fish belly. This resulted in a sharper angle and caused the trucks to be unable to turn. I raised the bolster to accommodate this and the trucks now swing properly. Oh well, it is about the same as commercially available stuff.
The fish plate was the result of my sloppily cutting the plate...
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Post by LiveSteamer on May 8, 2007 9:24:13 GMT -5
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Post by bktrains on May 10, 2007 21:03:09 GMT -5
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Post by wabashbanks on May 11, 2007 10:51:09 GMT -5
Thanks guys!
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Post by extra7000south on May 11, 2007 12:57:29 GMT -5
Looking forward to see the progress. ;D
Nice work!!
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Post by chrismoore93 on Jul 7, 2007 23:33:00 GMT -5
Excellent Build! Great Work!
Chris
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Post by wabashbanks on Jul 11, 2007 15:37:11 GMT -5
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Post by chrismoore93 on Jul 11, 2007 16:03:40 GMT -5
Great job!
Chris
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Post by wabashbanks on Jul 12, 2007 9:42:07 GMT -5
Thanks Chris
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