What’s on your Workbench?

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Nice weathering!

[De Bruin]

The NH SW-1200 was a very cool prototype too with those flexicoil trucks.
Sarge, didn't these have Hancock air whistles too?

[sarge]

Thanks for the kind comments.

Pete, they do indeed have Hancocks, the castings for which just showed in the post so that empty space will be filled forthwith.

I'm having a lot of fun with weathering in an odd way, recently. Enough folks locally have expressed interest in how I do weathering such that I've been having clinics in the workshop on the subject. I do have to be careful to concentrate on the techniques and let folks take them away to use as they see "weather" rather than demand they do it my way. Grin!

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Totally agree a clinic or class on weathering would always be appreciated. I've discussed it with Lee Turner and like most things in life, gets better with more practice. You have a knack for it. So easy to overdue and I remember years ago when it first caught on, there were an awful lot of very ugly weathered models being sold on EB and other venues. Less seems to be more with weathering.

[bob turner]

Here is my latest attempt at resurrecting an old Hines Mike - Mechanism is Lobaugh Berk, tender is Lobaugh Pacific. Needs a generator, some class lamps, maybe a new headlight, a reverser, and paint.

[J. S. Bach]

Nice. I really like those tender trucks.

[R.K. Maroon]

I agree with Dave -- those are cool trucks on the tender. My Lobaugh Pacific (post-war USRA) does not have trucks like that.

Here is a CLW FM H20-44 in the shop for new body bolster plates:



This arrived with plexiglas plates -- too thin and brittle for that application (or maybe just aged). I keep Garolite sheet in stock just for this application.

Jim

[bob turner]

Trucks are CLW. I delight in strange truck side frames.

[De Bruin]

Very cool model, seconding Bob's comment, trucks too!
More prosaically I'm still doing painting and the “big” projects, but go back to these rebuilds bought from the club’s donation pile that need TLC to resell, therapeutic at this point not sweating the result having now done at least 40 of these since 2019. My green PRB 50' express car in the foam cradle is a guide to follow replicating underframe details w/brass rod, plastic and white metal valve/reservoir parts, as in really not sweating the prototype.

It has it's moments; we all know Athearn used second hand commercial sheet metals to stamp out their car sides but I never get tired of finding stuff like this. One set is clearly for the outer bottle cap and the others for the inside. Very "3D-ish."


The “Scout” version officially scrapped as a doaner. The other two were in the same collection but I’m pretty sure had different builders; both of whom were tool, technique and materially challenged. I don’t say that to be critical, they did the best they could and did get a lot of the roof, floor sides and end fittings done well. It’s more about using brads, staples and skimping on the details, but hey you work a farm in Montana and you do with what you have.

[robert.]

If you build the car as Coca Cola. You could sell it on OGR for $600. One off rare better than the Natty boh car.

[Chris Webster]

It has it's moments; we all know Athearn used second hand commercial sheet metals to stamp out their car sides but I never get tired of finding stuff like this. One set is clearly for the outer bottle cap and the others for the inside.

The intended use of the sheet metal is only obvious if you happen to be ancient enough to remember glass coke bottles and metal caps.

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I agree with Dave -- those are cool trucks on the tender. My Lobaugh Pacific (post-war USRA) does not have trucks like that.

Here is a CLW FM H20-44 in the shop for new body bolster plates:



This arrived with plexiglas plates -- too thin and brittle for that application (or maybe just aged). I keep Garolite sheet in stock just for this application.

Jim

Looks like nice paint even upside down. I look forward to seeing photos of the assembled model.

[ScaleCraft]

Not mine, but when Burner posted a link to NK about MMW, I perused the bird droppings.

This one caught my eye:
https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/hel ... ngine-manf

Former forumite named George did it, apparently.
NWSL gearbox, all cool.

Something didn't look right, so...research.

First was main rods and crankpin bolts for main....just looked like somebody grabbed them out of a Lionel parts box.

Cylinders totally wrong. Originally D-valve (square valve chamber), model has piston valves..rounded.
Crosshead and guides, not even close.
Cab roof "gutters" nowhere close to correct angle.
Roof vent looks wrong size and placement. Stack seems wrong...hard to tell exactly.

Here is a photo of the 820 in service;

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/prr820s.jpg

Headlight appears too big, lack of smokebox class lights (or mounts) stack on model appears to be too far back, model sand dome....top wrong shape and height, fillet to boiler missing, no steps on boiler, not sure what they were thinking on running board forward of engineer.
Lack of injectors and lubricator lines to valve body.
The unique shape of pilot deck....isn't. Whistle rod to top of cab above engineer.

Good 15 foot model. Would have been real nice 3-rail piece.

I saved the photo and lightened it to see what was hidden by the dark photo.

I dunno if I'd have even tried....that pilot deck would have been rough to duplicate.

Of course, I did do a 3-rail L1s 35 years ago that isn't too bad.