Show Your Flatcar Load

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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby sarge » Tue Mar 10, 2015 11:02 am

J. S. Bach wrote:Can you bring that to Strasburg? There is a very slim chance that I will be there and would like to see it in person.


I'd be happy to, though you will have to remind me closer in, because I will forget between now and then.
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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby Pacific Limited » Tue Mar 10, 2015 11:18 am

Neat stuff Sarge!

Rufus your modeling is World class
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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby Big Jim » Tue Mar 10, 2015 11:19 am

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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Mar 10, 2015 11:25 am

Pacific Limited wrote:Rufus your modeling is World class


Why.......thank you!

sarge wrote:..........I lettered it three times....


Very, very nicely done, too!
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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby 2railjon » Tue Mar 10, 2015 6:11 pm

Bombs and rockets!!! F**K, yeah!!!! We are a rich and vibrant culture, indeed!!!! :mrgreen:
Rufus, your tractor load rocks!!! :D

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Running that red block Charlie.
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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Mar 10, 2015 6:22 pm

2railjon wrote:Rufus, your tractor load rocks!!! :D


Thanks, Jon. That kerosene rail tractor was handed to me as a box of many parts....and was a bit of a challenge to re-assemble inot anything more than its current condition. Makes a nice load and adds weight to an otherwise light flat car.


Here's something a little different:

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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby sarge » Tue Mar 10, 2015 6:22 pm

Yes we are!

To complement Ruf's tractor/railcar thingy:

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That is a small road-roller and a tar-pot made by a company in New Zealand, lovely white-metal kits.

This one...

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...is also a white metal and resin kit (the bulldozer). It's neat because its a cable blade, very typical of the pre-WWII and pre-hydraulics era. A bitchy kit to build and the cable routing was physically impossible as done in the kit, so a new overhead structure and cable-routing that actually would have worked was the order of the day. I've been a couple weeks on this one and still need to add the chains.
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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Mar 10, 2015 6:43 pm

sarge wrote:.... a small road-roller....


Kit for one of those is on my bench albeit the one from Turner Model Works which no doubt came from some other source long ago and far away from now.

Was thinking about tinkering it together but I can't get steady enough while hacking up a lung right now....
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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby sarge » Tue Mar 10, 2015 6:45 pm

Jon and Ruf:

Some lovely modeling.

Jon I need to get you up here for a week to ballast track.

I just can't get scenery to look anything but man-made! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby 2railjon » Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:16 pm

Hey, I'm in on bulldozers and stuff!!! My bulldozer on a Rufus built flatcar kit!!! :D
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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby aterry11 » Tue Mar 10, 2015 10:15 pm

Is It a weed sprayer? Mr. Firefly?
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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby Pacific Limited » Wed Mar 11, 2015 1:12 am

2 rail Jon that's fantastic.
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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby Pacific Limited » Wed Mar 11, 2015 1:13 am

Big Jim that's bad *** man! Wow
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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

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Re: Show Your Flatcar Load

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Mar 11, 2015 7:58 am

aterry11 wrote:Is It a weed sprayer? Mr. Firefly?


Yes! Sprayer arms pivot, too.
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