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After a year and a half (of mostly procrastination) I finally finished my HO scale Jawn Henry steam turbine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivcGHjBoDbQ This is how it looked when I got it:  Original drivetrain:  Updated drivetrain. This image also shows 1 of the 5 tungsten weights I added and the DCC decoder, as well as the speakers in their 3d printed enclosures in the background:  Poor first attempt at a paint job on the locomotive:  Baking attempt #2, fingers crossed:  Now that's more like it:  Decaling wasn't as difficult as I expected. All in all I'm pretty happy with the results for my first brass locomotive: 
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So I guess there are some really talented train people in here, hey? Because I can't find what I want commercially available and lack the skills to do it myself, I'd love to commission anyone willing to take on a project for me. It would involve scratch building a motorised chassis for a T scale loco. Maybe an 0-4-0 or 0-6-0 tank with simple driving rods? All materials (wheels, etched parts, printed shell, gears, motor etc) are available, I just don't have a clue as to how to put it all together. Painting not required, all costs paid up front. If this sounds like the kind of hellish nightmare you'd like to partake in for money, please PM me. I expect zero takers, but hey worth a shot. e: the more I look into this the more outlandish it seems... Fitting a motor in anything but a small diesel shunter seems like a massive pain. Ah well. Lizard Combatant fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:New project! I've been thinking of redoing my airbrush spray booth for a while now. My current unit was two of the typical cheapy hobby units bolted together, with a hood that had to flare out widely to give me the space I needed. Not ideal, not as quiet as it could be, and the ergonomics of it were lacking. Then I remembered I had a big box fan sitting in closet taking up space, so I decide to build a new booth based around that. That’s neat. What are you doing for exhaust?
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Feb 3, 2022 06:26
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nitsuga posted:That’s neat. What are you doing for exhaust? Straight into my lungs. There is no exhaust. I live in a lovely condo that has no windows except the sliding door to the deck, and that's 20 feet away. Not a huge issue though, I only shoot acrylics, and wear a respirator while doing so. The furnace filter will catch all the particulate, so the only thing coming out the back might be an odd acrylic smell, if even that.
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Feb 3, 2022 06:42
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Well poo poo. My side project is a Rye Field Model Sherman Firefly and I've been slogging through a really finicky, tedious track build. Come to find out, the kit provides exactly enough track links and grousers needed for the kit. Many of the grousers broke during the build, so now I'm short materials for about 2" of tracks on one side. I highly doubt I'll be able to get another single sprue (ebay was a bust already), so best I can hope for is to buy a whole new set of aftermarket tracks and start this whole goddamn process over again.
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Feb 4, 2022 03:09
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Gewehr 43 posted:Well poo poo. My side project is a Rye Field Model Sherman Firefly and I've been slogging through a really finicky, tedious track build. Come to find out, the kit provides exactly enough track links and grousers needed for the kit. Many of the grousers broke during the build, so now I'm short materials for about 2" of tracks on one side. I highly doubt I'll be able to get another single sprue (ebay was a bust already), so best I can hope for is to buy a whole new set of aftermarket tracks and start this whole goddamn process over again. Can you put the tracks without grousers underneath where you can't see them anyway?
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Feb 4, 2022 03:11
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A new step for me: LED lighting in a diorama. Turns out building the drat thing is half the battle, you also have to photograph it correctly.
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Feb 4, 2022 04:07
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Gewehr 43 posted:Well poo poo. My side project is a Rye Field Model Sherman Firefly and I've been slogging through a really finicky, tedious track build. Come to find out, the kit provides exactly enough track links and grousers needed for the kit. Many of the grousers broke during the build, so now I'm short materials for about 2" of tracks on one side. I highly doubt I'll be able to get another single sprue (ebay was a bust already), so best I can hope for is to buy a whole new set of aftermarket tracks and start this whole goddamn process over again. Time for a diorama of the Firefly with knocked out tracks!
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Feb 4, 2022 04:09
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Time for a diorama of the Firefly with knocked out tracks! Or a figure with a wrench in his hand looking quizzically at a pile of links, like a drunk college student with their first Ikea furniture.
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Feb 4, 2022 06:48
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Or a figure with a wrench in his hand looking quizzically at a pile of links, like a drunk college student with their first Ikea furniture. And the title plaque on the dio will be "... poo poo's hosed."
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Feb 4, 2022 06:56
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Holy crap youtube found a neat little diorama. The person took a ekranoplane model and made a diorama of it in a similar situation as one does in real life. Up on a beach. This includes rusting up the model along with building the beach scene it resides on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhxD0XVecRM
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Feb 4, 2022 14:00
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Gewehr 43 posted:Well poo poo. My side project is a Rye Field Model Sherman Firefly and I've been slogging through a really finicky, tedious track build. Come to find out, the kit provides exactly enough track links and grousers needed for the kit. Many of the grousers broke during the build, so now I'm short materials for about 2" of tracks on one side. I highly doubt I'll be able to get another single sprue (ebay was a bust already), so best I can hope for is to buy a whole new set of aftermarket tracks and start this whole goddamn process over again. Surprise! That kit's a bastard. Glue the remains in place as best you can with regular cement so you've got a fused length, then mark it so it'll be on the top run. There shouldn't be any track sag, so as long as nobody pokes it and notices it's not flexible, you should be okay. Bonus points if you're building the version with the fenders, which will hide a multitude of sins. NB: Absolutely do not glue the fenders on before you get the track on.
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Feb 4, 2022 14:48
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Honestly, up till now it's been great. If they threw one more track sprue in the box in consideration of the fiddliness of the track build, I'd be tickled pink. I like some of the ideas I'm seeing here. I'll finish up my main project and figure out what to do with the firefly.
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Feb 4, 2022 20:42
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Sash! posted:A small engine terminal wouldn't take up a whole lot of space, depending on what sort of area you'd be willing or able to go with. Not much more moving around than shuttling between the inbound track, processing, storage (if needed), and moving to the ready track, but still something. The Europeans, especially English, do more of this style than North Americans, in part because of the size difference between our equipment (a British 2-10-0 of the 1950s was considered enormous at 66 feet long and is the largest they have to contend with. A North American locomotive of the same wheel arrangement was 82 feet long and average sized.). So I went looking for shunting plans and there is a very pervasive layout that keeps coming up. Called the Inglenook Shunting Puzzle. The idea is set up where you have 3 tracks. One holds 3 wagons, and the other two sidings hold 2 wagons each. Or rather, each of those spots has a maximum capacity. The output track spot can hold the shunter and 5 wagons. The goal is basically without using the hand of god (you can't physically rearrange the wagons), to see if you can rearrange the wagons out of the yard to a specific order on the main line. You can either just sit down and play out whatever idea hits you or do something like dice to roll for the order you try. Here is a website with all kinds of information about it as I mentioned. The cool thing is that you can open track the operation as I mentioned earlier. The end track where you marshal out can be set up to connect to another section in the future if pursue it. You can even go further and the spur with the 3 wagon capacity could be connected as well to be a mainline that you then have to shunter dance the other cars in and around. http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/sw-inglenook.html
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The interesting thing about the Inglenook is that it isn't unrealistic. A lot of the puzzle types require track arrangements that no one would actually build in reality. On the other hand, Inglenook uses a fairly common track arrangement that comes up in warehousing and bulk liquid transfer. Here in Alexandria, Virginia, we used to have a warehouse on the waterfront where barges brought paper up from the South. The paper was transfered to boxcars and then moved across town to the facility that prints the Washington Post. Shuffling the loads, empties, partial loads, and different grades of paper req the types of moves that Inglenook uses. This wasn't all that long ago either. Barge service was discontinued in 2013 and now the lower volume of paper made an all rail move from the paper mills economical.
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JuffoWup posted:Holy crap youtube found a neat little diorama. The person took a ekranoplane model and made a diorama of it in a similar situation as one does in real life. Up on a beach. This includes rusting up the model along with building the beach scene it resides on. This is really cool, thanks for sharing!
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Hooray! A little research this morning revealed that AFV Club sells and aftermarket track kit of the style that I need for my RFM Firefly. As added bonuses, they're $9, and they're one piece vinyl. The other options were Bronco tracks at $16 and 4 pieces per individual link, and Model Kasten resin at $60 and 4 pieces. Wooo! I'll take single piece vinyl any day for something that uses live tracks.
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Now when you're not building models in your spare time, you can build models in your other spare time. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164250/Model_Builder/ 
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Now when you're not building models in your spare time, you can build models in your other spare time. I'm not buying this game unless it can accurately depict ruined paint jobs, losing parts to the carpet monster, and of course fumes.
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How does it model the two most common parts of model building: buying kits you will never have time to build and complaining on the internet that your airplane didn't come with swastika decals?
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Ensign Expendable posted:How does it model the two most common parts of model building: buying kits you will never have time to build and complaining on the internet that your airplane didn't come with swastika decals? And of course moaning that the newly announced kit by [manufacturer x] is in the 'wrong scale' and declaring it 'fatally flawed' after peering at some CAD renders and that if they had any sense they'd kit some obscure 1930s prototype aircraft that never flew because it would 'make them millions' instead of yet another spitfire. We joke that the model building is really two distinct hobbies - building kits, and collecting kits. I'd suggest it's actually three, the third being 'complaining on the internet about kits'.
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Uhhh, the bolt heads on the tank were spaced 6 inches apart, but this model depicts them as 5.75 inches apart. Clearly this model is beyond trash, and I shall register my distaste on the internet forthwith. Tamiya will surely go out of business because of this shocking blunder.
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Feb 9, 2022 11:20
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That's one of the reasons I love the lovely Airfix "HO/OO" kits. They're terrible, but in interesting ways that tell you something about the history of the one tank in Bovington that Airfix used as a reference model. Knowing how and why they ended up wrong is itself interesting.
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And yet there’s another group of modelers out there filling forums with posts about how they’re converting an italeri wessex Westland in 1/72 scale into an accurate representation of the aircraft that flew using nothing but plasticard and materials found in the home.
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What's the point of knowing all this cool stuff if you don't build it?
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:And yet there’s another group of modelers out there filling forums with posts about how they’re converting an italeri wessex Westland in 1/72 scale into an accurate representation of the aircraft that flew using nothing but plasticard and materials found in the home. Then there's the masochists who willingly choose to do vacform kits when there's perfectly respectable injection moulded alternatives of the subject, just because they can. And for that, I have nothing but respect.
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Arquinsiel posted:That's one of the reasons I love the lovely Airfix "HO/OO" kits. They're terrible, but in interesting ways that tell you something about the history of the one tank in Bovington that Airfix used as a reference model. Knowing how and why they ended up wrong is itself interesting. I found that with my Beaufighter. There's a museum piece where they installed the horizontal stabilizers on upside down or something, because the actuators are on the dorsal side instead on the ventral. The kit dutifully copies this, so I cut them off and rebuilt them 
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You'll be pleased to know that spirit still runs strong in Airfix, as their latest 1/72 Mosquito B.XVI was based off lidar-scanning a museum piece that at some point later in life had been converted into a target tug, and so the kit unwittingly duplicates the raised features on the bomb bay doors of a TT.35 - much to the gnashing of teeth and declarations of 'fatally flawed!' by certain corners of the internet.
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I am pleased to know this. It's great.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Uhhh, the bolt heads on the tank were spaced 6 inches apart, but this model depicts them as 5.75 inches apart. Clearly this model is beyond trash, and I shall register my distaste on the internet forthwith. Tamiya will surely go out of business because of this shocking blunder. God I wish you were kidding.
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Just finished IBG's 1/700 HMS Ilex, a really nice wee kit. I can definitely recommend their range of destroyers as they have good references, clear instructions, come with a decent fret of photoetch and only cost about £12. IBG seem like a manufacturer to look out for as they broaden their scope, I think just now they mainly focus on Polish 72nd aircraft, 72nd armour and 1/700 British/Polish destroyers. I took this as an opportunity to have my first go at making a sea base from tin foil and pva glue and I'm more or less pretty happy with how it turned out. I think the wake is maybe a bit overdone and in future I might tone it down a bit, or try a different method, but it was a good experience experimenting with different techniques and seeing what worked and what didn't. It was a lot easier than I expected though, and I didn't have to fart around pouring resin.       
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That base looks pretty good, do you have a tutorial or something you used?
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FrozenVent posted:That base looks pretty good, do you have a tutorial or something you used? I followed the basic steps in this video, but I didn't bother buying stuff like acrylic medium or anything I didn't already have lying around, so it's a bit more simple than what he did. I used Woodland Scenics 'Water Effects', which is effectively just a pva glue that stays in place and can be 'sculpted' to a certain extent, so I used that to build up some of the waves around the hull. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuntDtSWizY There's some incredible sea diorama videos out there that just blow my mind, though - especially Studio Blue Ocean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkBhu655BGk
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Uhhh, the bolt heads on the tank were spaced 6 inches apart, but this model depicts them as 5.75 inches apart. Clearly this model is beyond trash, and I shall register my distaste on the internet forthwith. Tamiya will surely go out of business because of this shocking blunder. Uh, yeah. Well, whenever you notice something like that, a field mechanic did it.
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Gewehr 43 posted:God I wish you were kidding. As you can assume, us model railroad guys have the same level of "this travesty shall not be forgotten" over things. But, there's this company named Athearn. If you're in HO, you own something that they made. They are one of the biggest players around. Now, they used a common one piece casting for the underframe and floor for virtually every variation on a boxcar. There were three parts that are glued to the underframe that represent the brake equipment. The entire brake system is backwards. The reference they used was a top down look, but they mistook it for a bottom up look. This makes the whole thing mirrored. They've been making them this way for 60+ years. If you can dodge that bullet for that long, you can dodge anything.
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So, speaking of HO, Witness the dumbest argument on possibly the entire internet Though the entire "Train Scale" discussion is several flavors of crazy. There are four distinct scales for N, all so close together I think all the scales are compatible?
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Nebakenezzer posted:So, speaking of HO, Witness the dumbest argument on possibly the entire internet idgi none of that is about how many days are in a week
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd7_STihkZ4 New series where people build small things. Might be of interest to some of you!
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Nebakenezzer posted:So, speaking of HO, Witness the dumbest argument on possibly the entire internet 
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Nebakenezzer posted:Though the entire "Train Scale" discussion is several flavors of crazy. There are four distinct scales for N, all so close together I think all the scales are compatible? That's because N defines a gauge (9mm) not a scale, and combined with real-world railroads having various gauges, you get stuff like "american" N being 1:160 and "japanese" N being 1:150. They work together just fine because all the important parts are the same size, but they can look kinda weird side by side.
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