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jbvb
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 Posted - 04/22/2012 : 5:07:36 PM
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When I looked over my little people, folks dressed for a tourist trap on a sunny summer day were pretty scarce. I went by Northeastern Craftsman Supply Saturday and found a couple that looked useful. The fishing guy is Preiser, the girl Merten, the bare-headed guy from Kramer.
I also cleaned up, painted and detailed a Plastruct (repackaged from some other supplier) swing set for Rowley:
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Orionvp17
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 04/22/2012 : 5:40:16 PM
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Good point, James! Tourists need to look like they're ready for fried clams! I certainly am! 
So will the young lady be able to balance on the teeter-totter (er... seesaw) or not? The world wonders! [:-eyebrows]
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jbvb
Fireman
USA
6475 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2012 : 10:59:24 PM
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Pete, I expect she'll be able as long as the Weldwood holds...
No modeling this week, as I'm visiting corporate HQ, but I did get good news over the weekend: It looks like an article I submitted to Scale Rails quite a while back (in fact, before I started this thread) will be published in the June issue. |
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LVRALPH
Fireman
5585 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2012 : 05:31:00 AM
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LandNnut
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 05/02/2012 : 10:50:10 AM
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Congratulations on the article.
L&N nut
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Orionvp17
Fireman
USA
7273 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2012 : 7:53:57 PM
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Congratulations, James!
Pete
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Mike Hamer
Engineer
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jbvb
Fireman
USA
6475 Posts |
Posted - 06/04/2012 : 07:39:49 AM
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Thanks, Mike, Pete and Jon. One of these days, I should see if I can succeed with a general circulation magazine. But the time between submission and publication might be just as long.
I hadn't done much modeling for a while, but a rainy weekend produced this progress on the farm on the north (RR east) side of Rt. 1A:
The Sylvan resin barn kit is just taped together, but the rain is supposed to continue all week...
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LandNnut
Fireman
USA
1608 Posts |
Posted - 06/08/2012 : 01:49:31 AM
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Very New England.
L&N nut
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jbvb
Fireman
USA
6475 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2012 : 2:52:48 PM
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Today being Father's Day, I more or less took it off (except for two loads of wash and some bookkeeping this morning). But no actual modeling yet, because I discovered I'd given myself an accidental present: My Canon MP990 all-in-one has a slide scanning widget!!!
I'd forgotten this had ever existed till I looked at my 1979 slide. It's a mechanically-interlocked warning gate on the approach to the Merrimack River bridge in Salisbury, slightly in the rear of the 3-head searchlight home signal. It had been out of service 14 years, and was entirely demolished a decade or so later. I am not sure I can find room for one at each end of my planned model bridge, but it would be easy to animate. |
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deemery
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 06/17/2012 : 6:20:12 PM
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It's not clear to me how this works, can you talk through the 'open' and 'closed' settings?
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Modeling 1890s (because the voices in my head told me to) |
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jbvb
Fireman
USA
6475 Posts |
Posted - 06/17/2012 : 8:11:31 PM
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| What it looks like to me: The pipe at the lower right comes from somewhere out on the bridge, either the locks that hold the swing span, or the levers that raise the approach rails above the swing span rails (I recall them as being the lifting rails - the ends were mitered). The lever mounted on the tie end reverses the motion. There's a rack on the end of the pipe engaged with a 2' or so gear wheel. The larger vertical pipe mounted to the gear's hub rotates, swinging the gate. All that's left of the gate is the two pipe tees it was attached to. I think it was a horizontal pipe with a diagonal brace coming down from the upper fitting. |
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deemery
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 06/17/2012 : 9:14:14 PM
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Got it, thanks!!!
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Modeling 1890s (because the voices in my head told me to) |
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jbvb
Fireman
USA
6475 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2012 : 10:00:02 PM
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For the last couple of weeks, most of my hobby time has been spent scanning slides. But with a rainy morning on the 4th, I got up to the attic and made some progress:
First I got out my makeshift foam cutting setup. In the 1950s Lionel made products of a quality we may never see again. The Nichrome wire came from a surplus site. I don't use a lot of foam, but there are two places where it lets me do a simple lift-out:
This is behind Bexley Engine Terminal, and might need to come out for easy access to a couple of switches, but will also make creating the scene much easier. The raised area is a site for a City Classics Gulf gas station now under construction.
This is a similar situation in West Lynn.
No model progress today, but I did get to spend several hours working in Seashore Trolley Museum's restoration shop, though not actually on a trolley.
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LVRALPH
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 04:47:26 AM
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| Outstanding modeling as always. Keep up the good work. |
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B&M Eastern Route progress