From the Firefly Shops

[up148]

Fixable, along with the shiny wheels

Yeah, but I don't see it in person - the light and camera caught it though - the camera is a harsh and indifferent critic

Yeah, I gotten into the habit of photographing build projects or items I intend to sell and looking very good. Amazing what we gloss over that looks like a diamond in a goats a-- when viewed in a picture. .

Nice tank car!

BH

[webenda]

Recently I asked what or who Rufus is now. At the time it looked like something weird crawling out of slime but I couldn't tell for sure because of my eyes.
Then I guess my eyes woke up and I could then see that it was one of his old clown friends. I haven't driven after dark for at least six months.

Does this help Roger?

Wayne,
I think I would rather see that dimly with my bad eyes.

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[Rufus T. Firefly]

Recently I asked what or who Rufus is now. At the time it looked like something weird crawling out of slime but I couldn't tell for sure because of my eyes.
Then I guess my eyes woke up and I could then see that it was one of his old clown friends. I haven't driven after dark for at least six months.

Does this help Roger?

You're a day late - it changed from the one Roger was asking about today to the one you show

[webenda]

Recently I asked what or who Rufus is now. At the time it looked like something weird crawling out of slime but I couldn't tell for sure because of my eyes.
Then I guess my eyes woke up and I could then see that it was one of his old clown friends. I haven't driven after dark for at least six months.

Does this help Roger?

You're a day late - it changed from the one Roger was asking about today to the one you show

Warm weather speeds up metamorphosis.

[rogruth]

Wayne,
I think I would rather see that dimly with my bad eyes.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

One done...







Now to get the other done..........

[rogruth]

That's nice.

[BruceB]

Finished out nice! Good job.

[Wolf]

Very nice Hart Convertible Ballast car. My guess is that this car is fresh
from the Rogers factory and before MOW has had a chance to abuse it

Assume it was a kit from whence you started, but whose? Or was it buried
so deep in the queue that it became separated from any original box?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Very nice Hart Convertible Ballast car. My guess is that this car is fresh from the Rogers factory and before MOW has had a chance to abuse it

Thanks!

Indeed; the MOW crews are just beginning to "break" it in, Just barely got a bit of nice clean new ballast in it....

Assume it was a kit from whence you started, but whose? Or was it buried so deep in the queue that it became separated from any original box?

Main Line originally, but still available from Ye Olde Huff 'n' Puff. Even still had an instruction sheet; nigh on useless, but present...

http://www.yeoldehuffnpuff.com/OFreight.HTM

I've added a good bit of parts to this and to the 2nd one (yet to make an appearance here...).

[De Bruin]

......Main Line originally........still had an instruction sheet; nigh on useless, but present...

You are the master of understatement, I did one of these roughly twenty years ago , my lasting memory is I was amazed that I finished it. It's pretty rough looking too, but passes the beat to sh*t look of mow cars test quite nicely. Yours here on the other hand looks- amazing. You got the magic touch. A step-by on building one of these "gems" would be interesting given the "stock ingredients" in the MLM kit, dyslexic plans and strip wood assortment provided.

added a good bit of parts to this and to the 2nd one (yet to make an appearance here...).

I'm going to guess that would be underbody parts including gang valve, queen posts, turn buckles, rod levers, and above some grabs, brake wheel, virtually replacing every cast metal part provided with the kit? am I missing anything?

I've done three Mainline Models kits and they all have the same really bizarre gap between plan, parts-materials and finished product. They also all have the same "lazy" screening wherein after the initial set-up for the specific prototype, screen is re-cycled with selective over screen for the road name.
All of them had it as best as I can tell- the Stock Cars, Box Cars, Flat Carts, Hart-Hanks et al. Note this PRR example's nice CCC&StL lettering in the corner, mine was PRR too but I sanded off the road name in favor of a Clover House NYC system oval herald dry transfer. It still looks like hell.
I think Huff n Puff fixed that issue. BTW think I have yet another unbuilt PRR version , interested?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

......Main Line originally........still had an instruction sheet; nigh on useless, but present...

You are the master of understatement, I did one of these roughly twenty years ago , my lasting memory is I was amazed that I finished it. It's pretty rough looking too, but passes the beat to sh*t look of mow cars test quite nicely. Yours here on the other hand looks- amazing. You got the magic touch.

Thank you.

A step-by on building one of these "gems" would be interesting given the "stock ingredients" in the MLM kit, dyslexic plans and strip wood assortment provided.

And, I would do what with that - send to OST? Would it get published there? I have no idea.

I am rapidly coming to terms with accepting that there are very few folks out there that actually are building kits; I seriously wonder whenever I sell an excess kit at a meet whether I will end up buying it back someday off eBay or at another meet - I may start marking the inside of the top of the boxes just to test that potential.

added a good bit of parts to this and to the 2nd one (yet to make an appearance here...).

I'm going to guess that would be underbody parts including gang valve, queen posts, turn buckles, rod levers, and above some grabs, brake wheel, virtually replacing every cast metal part provided with the kit? am I missing anything?[/quote]

I actually left the stake and stake pocket castings in place on this one. Probably could/should have done more with the brake system, but one reaches the point of diminishing returns and life is short, although the days are long. The parts that this one still had in the box went into the scrap bin or into the scenery scrap box.

BTW think I have yet another unbuilt PRR version , interested?

Yes, but I'm far more interested in acquiring more archbar trucks, Athearn or something reasonably similar.

[Jay Criswell]

Yes, but I'm far more interested in acquiring more archbar trucks, Athearn or something reasonably similar.

Help is on the way. Shipped Tues. (if memory serves).....about three lbs. Sorry. I went cheap and shipped parcel post.

Jay

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yes, but I'm far more interested in acquiring more archbar trucks, Athearn or something reasonably similar.

Help is on the way. Shipped Tues. (if memory serves).....about three lbs. Sorry. I went cheap and shipped parcel post.

Jay,

Greatly appreciated and USPS Parcel Post is perfectly fine......

I have just noticed that thanks to the pace at which I currently building and then combined with locating another host of wooden car bodies, that my stash of arch bars will seriously dwindle over the course of this year. I may have to break down and buy some Andrews,

[Jay Criswell]

Rubbish the thought! Extreme blasphemy and it will not do!!

Jay