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t 18 long all the other cars run on four wheel n scale chassis from kato fleishman or roco i also have a few more frames to make into more of these or something i also have a few more aru models and modelwagen kits for japanese prototypes i hope to add as time permits posted by simplex at 7 58 pm no comments o l co 20 boxcar on the work bench lately has been an on3 under frame that will be assembled into a 20 boxcar to run on my freelanced version of the oregon lumber company which yes i m building in on3 hon3 and some ho standard gauge thrown in for good measure the wood bits were salvaged from a partially assembled taurus 20 orecar kit that i got secondhand the assembly was pretty poor but yielded a good supply of o scale timbers and detail parts i wanted to take a new approach to building truss rods on this car using brass wire instead of fishing line which i have experienced tends to go slack after a short time i also wanted to be able to see daylight through the turnbuckles which i think is a great detail to that end each truss rod is assembled from four individual bits of wire each one carefully bent to shape and test fit numerous times during assembly i like the result despite taking about three hours to do four truss rods including several bourbon and cigarette breaks the underframe is complete minus the coupler draft timbers which will be added once the body is complete since these photos were made the entire underframe has been spray painted black and decking has been added using some mystery lasercut parts i had laying around it was installed upside down to allow the etched detail to be seen from the bottom which is fine as i hadn t planned to have any interior detail in this car posted by simplex at 6 20 pm 1 comment hershey electric gondola no 46 another new project to keep me from actually completing anything is a 4x3 foot mini layout it is based on a mash up of very small narrow gauge electrified mining lines and is named after the hershey electric lines in cuba i will be completely freelancing the equipment and landscape and have it in my mind to take a more whimsical approach than i usually do but things will be built with at least a small level of realistic probability my first bit of rolling stock is this 18 gondola built of stripwood and grandt line parts and riding on regular kadee ho scale archbar trucks it has a nice and low narrow gauge look and runs nicely around my pretty tight radius curves more on the hershey electric is in the works stay tuned posted by simplex at 4 24 pm 1 comment boxcar pulpwood car yes some new developments for my hon3 railways just started is a 26 boxcar which is more or less a copy of my on3 version built up years ago though this one will have much different hardware it will probably be lettered for the klondike mines navigation company a fictitious version of the klondike mines railway that once ran in the yukon territories the other is a little 4 wheel pulpwood car which will run on my oregon lumber co it ll get some additional detail and a load shortly posted by simplex at 4 09 pm no comments monday july 14 2014 sr n railbus no 1 saco river newfoundland railbus no 1 built up from another excellent aru models kit and running on the usual kato mechanism a handful of details to add and off to the paintshop posted by simplex at 9 23 pm no comments alna station rarely do i ever actually finish a structure model that i figure a bit of proof is necessary to maintain that i am a well rounded model builder not some weird locomotive savant granted this is one of the smallest stations to exist on the wiscasset waterville farmington railway but it is still an accomplishment nonetheless the kit came from mount blue models who took it over from banta modelworks both manufacturers of fine products it was painted in prototypically incorrect colours but whatever it s my railroad and i like green and cream it will eventually be installed on a small 11 inch by 9 foot shelf layout i ve started to use up all the mismatched bits i ve accumulated over the years more on that later probably also rip tommy ramone not many people could play the drums like you did posted by simplex at 9 09 pm no comments sunday november 17 2013 kusuki works 3 5 ton 0 4 0wt and my first steam critter in hon30 a fantastic kusuki works 3 5 ton 0 4 0 well tank assembled from an equally toma model works kit i wouldn t say it s a beginners kit although i m a beginner when it comes to steam engines but with patience and the appropriate metric taps the basic assembly was pretty straightforward it s running pretty nice and will get some additional detailing before heading to the paint shop posted by simplex at 3 02 pm no comments kato 4 ton dl a new diesel for the hon30 fleet a kato 4 ton built up from a world kougei kit posted by simplex at 2 49 pm 1 comment saturday november 02 2013 on30 four wheel flatcar 2 finished the tiny keelung type four wheel flatcar with some strap steel link and pin couplers and a couple nbws not quite ready to start the locomotive yet posted by simplex at 7 09 pm no comments wednesday october 23 2013 easy modification for coupler diversity i was fiddling around as usual tonight with a glass of makers mark and a bunch of my hon30 oo9 engines and rolling stock on a little pizza layout watching a train circle for a while then replacing it with a new train usually with a different coupler type and watching that for a while and so on while i was watching a train with the usual micro trains n scale couplers it hit me that i could easily glue track spike to the inside of the knuckle and use the same engine to pull all kinds of rolling stock so i tried it coupled with a standard loop coupler roco egger bahn jeouf type skip coupled with three links of chain and best of all it still couples nicely with another micro trains coupler i used a micro engineering spike the smallest type available glued in with ca superglue so far i ve tested it on some very tight radiuses about 4 5 inch and it works with the loop chain and mt coupler it still couples reasonably well with mchenry n scale couplers but i haven t had a chance to see how it does in actual use i don t have any cars equipped with mchenry couplers that can do that tight a radius i also haven t tried out to see how many cars can be pulled using the spike before it falls off knowing that the ca bond to the slippery plastic micro trains uses for their couplers will eventually fail it seems okay pulling five skips plus the mod is easy and quick you can just stick on another spike when the first one falls off also for the record i mount my micro trains lower than standard n scale on my maine type hon30 stock about 16 scale inches which matches up with the roco type loop couplers nicely and probably won t affect the chain coupling much but i haven t tried this yet with standard height n scale couplers but i think it would probably work just fine and during the early days of railroading it was not unknown for stock equipped with knuckle couplers to have a slot cut in the knuckle to enable them to be coupled with link and pin couplers so this is even sort of prototypical good times posted by simplex at 9 39 pm 1 comment friday october 18 2013 austro daimler sl30 feldbahn motorlok it s been three years since i posted about my little austro daimler sl30 feldbahn motorlok which has been languishing ever since i recently dusted it off and scratched up a cab for it and am liking it quite a bit i do have a bit of a thing for centre cabs i even managed to find the same can of spray paint i finished the body with sometime in the next three years i m sure i ll get around to making some couplings for it posted by simplex at 4 15 pm no comments monday october 14 2013 on30 four wheel flatcar while sampling a new to me bourbon breaking entering brand very good i got pretty drunk and ended up ordering one of mr toma s beautiful new on30 keelung coal co 3 5ton 0 4 0 well tank engines this morning i realized just how small a 3 5ton engine really is and set to building a little four wheel car for it to pull around it s only about four feet wide by seven feet long the journal boxes are cut from a titchy archbar truck with kadee ho 28 wheelsets which works out to about 14 inches in o scale the rest is the usual brass bits and grandt line nbws coupling will be simple link pin chains or drawbars and will be installed later so much for concentrating on one scale or gauge i seem to be back too sampling whatever i find out there regardless if it fits in any way with what i already have in the works i m pretty okay with that posted by simplex at 2 09 pm no comments friday october 11 2013 skeleton cars since my new hon3 line has a nice collection of geared engines i supposed that they would look at home pulling an assortment of the usual type of logging gear especially skeleton cars more correctly called connected cars i ve heard i have a couple in the works one being this little 20 car based on a drawing from the ng slg it s the usual stripwood styrene micro trains coupler and blackstone trucks with kadee wheels it still needs all the extras like brake details nbws and some weathering and a load i have a trio of longer 26 cars going as well of pretty much the same construction but with a solid centre sill one of them is even getting some detail parts installed that s a standard gauge flatcar in the background i intend to add some dual gauge track to my scheme somehow i bought a bachmann 80ton shay for it which dwarfs the narrow gauge equipment which i quite like there are some standard gauge bits being built as well i m managing to accomplish the odd finished model despite the usual distractions other scales bourbon cameras sometimes work i ve also recently i ve started another nn3 micro layout added some more to my 1 35 scale austro daimler critter assembled a mount blue models alna station in ho scale and have been researching wwi war department light railways for an oo9 project always something to do posted by simplex at 6 56 pm no comments thursday may 16 2013 diversions in hon30 hon2 another batch of sub projects ongoing are a trio of unusual 30 gauge pulpwood cars that were operated by the molino timber company somewhere in california some time ago my model is another inspired by version instead of a proper prototypical rendition these cars were unusually narrow had link and pin couplers and trucks that looked like cut down skip frames mine have the usual micro trains trucks and couplers and grandt line detail parts the rest is wood they operate okay but are extremely lightweight so they can only be pulled at the end of a train someday i ll add a load and hide some weight in there somehow and another diversion this time in hon2 or more accurately ho6 5 a kitbash of a grandt line koppel ore car mashed together with a micro trains nn3 underframe i think it looks like something some poor run down mining tram might have made using junk laying around i m not certain how much further i ll stumble into hon2 territory but i like the initial result posted by simplex at 9 22 pm 1 comment sr n flanger despite the previous postings i am still mainly committed to hon30 narrow gauge modelling specifically the maine two footers my saco river newfoundland railway lives on without a layout but with new equipment being added with some regularity the latest piece in the works is a sort of version of the sr rl flanger number 505 it is based of a drawing of 505 from the ng slg but assembled using bits i had on hand the underframe is from a fleischmann n scale freight car the windows are grandt line and the rest is scribed wood or styrene it s not finished but i think it achieves the maine look quite well posted by simplex at 9 04 pm no comments saturday march 30 2013 two shays as i mentioned i seem to be moving back toward hon3 and away from on3 for my three foot gauge needs mostly because i keep finding excellent deals on hon3 models in the used cases at my local hobby shops i guess all the local hon3 modellers are all dying out the latest two pieces of motive power added to my roster of geared engines is a pair of beautiful united shays both are in excellent condition and run quite well especially the unpainted one but these two as a pair has made me start thinking of where i want to go with my hon3 themes and standards i think it s pretty much a given that i m going to be building a logging line with some mining in there too i have several classic miniature and tichy ore cars to build and convert for that should i keep them as an oil burner and a wood burner or convert my motive power to one fuel type should i keep the kadee couplers which i don t really like much or try out sergent s or go full out ridiculous with link and pin not to mention my ongoing internal debate on switching to dcc none of that really matters at the moment because in the meantime i can just watch them glide across my almost three feet of main line and appreciate the detail and charm of these two posted by simplex at 10 00 pm no comments thursday march 14 2013 still building seeing as it s been over 800 days since i posted anything here i figure now is as good as any time to announce that i m still alive and am still building things things in all scales and gauges as usual with a minimum of focus and accomplishment but despite never really finishing anything i m still having fun with it so there s no real reason not to keep going right in that vein i finally found a much coveted hon3 flying zoo 18ton climax in excellent condition and at a reasonable price and itching to get it moving i laid a few feet of track including two re gauged hon30 switches that were originally built for my long departed home layout onto a 1x3 foot plank i had lying around everything is running nicely and i expect to get some paint and scenery down soon as usual don t expect any regular updates or finished models whatever that is but i 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