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Building "Thurogoods Transfer & Warehouse Company
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Posted by danpickard On 03/10/2010 At 07:42:43 AM
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Hi all,
I thought I would start a build thread for "Thurogoods Transfer & Warehouse Company", a kit being released by Outback Model Company (the new partnership of Laurie Green & John Hunter). Apparently they are still finalising some Paypal details with their website, but I was able to collect this kit from them directly last weekend.
Starting with the opening of the box...
Nicely packed, smaller box for some of the more delicate items, printed B&W manual, CD with coloured version, signs, Mt Albert Lumber supplies and some detail castings...even a milimetre ruler for the US builders who tend to use inch measures still.
The former/shell of the structure is laser cut matt board. Matt board being what these guys would normally use in one of their usual scratch built models (not as prone to warping like a ply shell).
The really handy assembly/erection template for building the large deck, laser cut matt board.
3 sheets of rough shingles, laser cut heavy paper stock.
A selection of the laser cut ply sheets, including windows (that work), doors, rough cut weatherboards, board & battern siding, stairs and roof trims. Really nice class 1 ply sheets. There is extensive use of their new laser cutter used in this first kit.
All up about 17 laser cut sheets of materials and templates, a few Grandt Line details, a handful of their own resin detail castings, laser cut pulleys, rope, laser cut window acetate and a few handy tools to get things started.
I'll start prep work on some of the timber, and continue the build in the next day or so...
Cheers,
Dan Pickard
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Please say it ain't so...
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Posted by barry dupler On 03/09/2010 At 11:38:30 PM
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I saw a posting on another forum that Dan Pickard and John Hunter's Dolly Varden Mine Railroad was publically shown for the last time this weekend at a public exhibition in Australia.
Hey guys, we saw you build it through your postings here on the web and hate the idea that it might be going the way of Red Stag. What are your plans for it?
No doubt Mario got a couple hundred photos of it and a day or two of video but...
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Bar Mills Pop Gracin's Build:
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Posted by postalkarl On 03/09/2010 At 4:47:07 PM
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Hi All;
I will be starting Pop Gracin's today. Here is a photo of the kit and it's contents. I have to read the instructions next.
Karl S.
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Making Copies of HO or O scale ships
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Posted by Ho Henry On 03/09/2010 At 2:51:39 PM
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Here's a tip using Sculpey Clay.
You have a model ship that you would like to replicate but are having difficulty taking the interior measurements of the hull.
Material needed.
1. Buy a few small cakes of Sculpey Clay (same color)
2. If you have fine if not (Any) type of Talcum Powder will work.
3. If you have fine, if not go to your Local Grocery store and purchase a role of Wax Paper.
4. You need a perfectly flat surface.
Method.
1. Take the model you wish to replicate.
Pour Talcum powder freely into the model, making sure to cote the total interior as well as the edges.
Then dump the Talcum powder.
(This will leave a residual amount of powder within the model.)
2. Proceed to take the Sculpey and role it in your hands until becomes plyable.
3. Flatten the clay and place it within the model. Make sure you leave at least a Half inch overlaping the complete exterior.
4. Now proceed to pack the complete interior of the model from one end to the other. Making sure there are NO indentations.
5. Place the model upside down onto the Wax paper and compress it evenly.
6. Leave it over-night
7. The next morning using your modelers knife with a #11 blade proceed to carefully lift off and remove totally the hull at either the stem or stern.
Now proceed to carefull cut the excess flange of clay surrounding the hull starting from the interior.
You notice the shape of the hull's exterior in the clay.
According to the instructions on the wrapper
of the Sculpey Clay you can now proceed to bake the interior shape of the hull you've just duplicated, thats 15 minutes for each 1/4" of clay. Refer to Temperature on the wrapper
Once the clay is baked you can now proceed to either take the measurements that you needed (or try and use the shape you actually created to duplicate the exterior hull utilising proper sized thickness wooden slats on its exterior.
Enjoy.
HO henry
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Weathering Corrugated Tin Buildings
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Posted by researchhound On 03/09/2010 At 01:20:18 AM
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Have a corrugated tin building (HO) I'm going to be weathering soon. Anyone care to share their techniques and maybe some photos?
Thanks,
Dan
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Bollinger Edgerly Milk Shed Build
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Posted by mainetrains On 03/08/2010 At 5:36:52 PM
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Finally decided on my next project. It's the Milk Shed & Express Freight Office kit from Bollinger Edgerly Scale Trains. The kit is based on a prototype located in Lisbon, NH. No idea if it is still there in some form.
Looks like an interesting little kit which will make a great addition to the HKVRR.
Dave 
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Signed: 2/11/2010 8:01:17 AM
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Signed: 1/29/2010 5:07:56 AM
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bigmama31
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Can someone help me locate that RR chat room back in Oct=Nov 2000. It was free at the time but was in process of going to a paid subscription. the user name he used was
"mongoose" Guy was living in Columbus, Ohio and worked for the FRA and heard he either moved to MD or Crum Lynne, Pa
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Signed: 12/25/2009 12:34:52 PM
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Posted By:
bigmama31
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I'm hoping someone here remembers a train/rr chat site back in Oct-2000, looking for a member using "mongoose" as a username. At that time, he was with the FRA and living in Columbus, Ohio. Heard he moved to either PA or Md but still with FRA.
The site was changing to a "paid subscription" and that's when I decided to end it.
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Signed: 12/25/2009 12:29:48 PM
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Posted By:
Robert Hough
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This is a great site. I enjoy it very much. You have a lot of great modelers here. I do Fn3 outdoors and On30 indoors. Thank you for letting me visit. I would like to be a member.
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Signed: 12/13/2009 9:43:45 AM
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Posted By:
paul langlois
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I am a 0n30 modeler and havebeen modelrailroading for 20+ years
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Signed: 12/2/2009 5:02:16 AM
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Huw Griffiths
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Brilliant site - lots of great models - excellent tutorials.
I'll definitely be back.
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Signed: 11/27/2009 6:57:27 PM
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Very useful site with loads of quality
'how to' posts. Found via RMweb in the UK.
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Signed: 10/28/2009 11:09:54 AM
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josh cirillo
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because of this site I have once again decided to build a small train layout in On30, and I now come by often.
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Signed: 10/4/2009 8:11:27 PM
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Thom Radice
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Heard about this site from a NMRA Div member for building my own stub switches.
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