Quote from: Philip on Today at 07:12:01 PM

Quote from: Pennman on Today at 07:07:23 PMBy golly, Philip, you are doing such splendid work on this!.

Rich

Your should see the pile of miscut lumber! Norm would of fired me!
Thanks Rich!

Not 'miscut', but 'detailing parts' for the scene

And actually being colorblind might have helped you.  I find sometimes I use too many different colors.  On yours, the walls and roof kinda look like they've all been weathered with the same color dust, and That's A Good Thing.

dave

Quote from: Philip on Today at 07:09:52 PMGreat job on the rail! I would have butchered it doing it like that. I used a bending jig similar to fast tracks with N scale track

Philip

On mine, I first curved the rail with the Fast Tracks jig, and then used the 'inner' and 'outer' jigs to make sure the ring was in alignment.  That combination worked -very well-.

dave

The color palette (walls and roof) work Really Well together!

dave

TomO, that stand of birches looks really good.  When I first glanced at the bottom photo, I thought "a bit too consistent."  But once I looked at it further, saw it was a stand of birches, the consistent color made much more sense.

dave

P-38 is a cool plane, glad you got to see it. 

Weather here continues to be perfect.  Last night's Scotch Club was fun, our Laird O'the Malts took us on a tour, with 2 bottles from each of the 5 recognized Scotch regions.  He brought the most popular and then his choice from each region.

The Springbank was the winner, with Glen Scotia and Balblair tied for second.  To be clear, we got about 2 sips of each, so we could all walk home.  But it was a great collection to compare. 

Hopefully I'll generate steam today to work on more scenery. 

dave

Ron, I need to find a source for those large 'pogo peg' connectors.  I have some other projects (not turntables) where they'd make a great power distribution mechanism.

And on the shaft:  I assembled mine with the motor, tested everything before installation, then removed the motor.  That way I could manually turn the turntable deck around to make sure the lead track rails lined up.   Eventually, I'll go back and install the motor, but this TT is within easy reach so I can pivot it by hand if I ever get to the point where I operate with it...

dave

You want possums in your back woods.  They eat LOTS of ticks!

We have dambies (deer) that seem to be camping out in the back yard.  They've munched a lot of hostas and other flowers.  And they're sufficiently domesticated that the smell of dog urine doesn't dissuade them.  At least, they're not as bad as our place in Virginia, where they'd clean out the entire yard's landscaping in a day.

Down to the exercise machine in a bit  I finally got the finicky dog to eat some dry kibble.  Before, she was only eating wet food, with a strong preference for cat food!  Now she turns her nose up at that.  But the important thing is to get her to eat.

dave

Look at the top two photos on Ron's post #20.  There's the printed circuit board rings (top photo), and then the base of the 'spider' on the second photo.  See the two holes on either side of the center post.  These two are the key to the power distribution.  The two holes line up to -2 different rings- on the PC Board.  

Later, Ron will show how the rest of the power distribution works.  But I wanted to highlight these pieces early in the build, because they're hidden later.   I'm still in awe at how well designed this kit is!

dave

A perfect weekend weather-wise in SE NH.  Scotch Club scheduled for 4:00 this afternoon, we'll do a survey of the 6 Scotch regions.  

Yesterday I finally built up some steam to plant a couple more trees & shrubs.  Today, I hope to extend that scenery work.  

The big challenge has been getting one of my dogs to eat (and to keep the other from stealing her uneaten food...)  For a while, she wanted wet cat food, but now it seems she wants dry kibble.  I don't know what's going on in her little canine mind.  

Rick, I think I mentioned the good German brewpub in Boulder. 

dave

Tom, best of luck with the surgery.  We'll all be here when you get back.

dave

It's a perfect weather day here in SE NH.  Sunny, 72 heading to 81, low humidity.  Should stay that way into next week, too. 

Right now I'm sitting on the couch with the dogs, I expected the house cleaners an hour ago.  Usually they're here right at 9:00.  I keep the dogs occupied and "safe" from the vacuum cleaner.  Once they're done, I need to pick up prescriptions for myself and the dogs, fortunately both are on the same street.

dave

Here's my Kitwood with the scenery, enginehouse, etc:

This is for the yard switcher.  I want to build a small coal dock in that triangle at the bottom left of the photo, and add a water column on the other side of the turntable lead.

add  The thing to notice is the turntable pit.  The top of the pit matches the turntable deck, so rails sitting on the top of the pit align with rails on the turntable.  BUT that means you have to plan for that height when you set the turntable into position.  The thickness of the pit top is about the same as tie thickness, but that means the turntable pit's top sits that same height above the ground level that the track ties sit on.  If you look carefully, you can see how I handled that with the scenery. 
dave

I have the HO version of the gallows TT.  That is a -superbly designed kit- that assembles and operates well. The power routing approach is particularly well thought out. 


dave

A fine day weather-wise!  That front passed through mid-day yesterday, and the humidity rapidly dropped.  This should stay with us through the weekend.

Yesterday was all about the dogs.  One went in for scheduled dental work (poor little guy lost 4 more teeth, it's a chronic problem with toy poodles.  He was starting to feel better last night.  But then the other dog got really fussy after not eating or drinking all day.  So I ended up taking her to the Vet ER.  They did bloodwork, which came back OK, and gave her some stuff that made her feel better.  But my wallet has a hole in it...

dave

We're in a run of really nice weather.  Not too hot, low humidity, sunny...

Yesterday was a double dog hit.  Titus did well at the vet, but he lost 4 more teeth.  The other tests didn't show any problems (no arthritis in his hip, no obvious internal signs.)  He was slower to recover, but by last night he wanted treats.  Livia, on the other hand, didn't eat most of yesterday, and was -very fussy-.  I ended up taking her to the vet ER, they treated her for nausea and dehydration.  She seems to be better today, but she's being her usual fussy eater self.  So, all-in-all, an expensive day.  But in between runs to the vet, I did spraypaint some more tree armatures.

dave