SP RR

[Lynnb]

Your cars came out great, I bet they have some weight to them.

[sdrees]

James, I used CV glue to glue the trilene to the tank along with an accelerator would.  I only glued the trilene on the bottom of the tank.  What I did was drill a #78 hole 1/8" long at the bottom of the tank for each band.  I then stuck one end of the line in the hole and glued it with the CA.  I then wrapped the line around the tank, pulled it tight and glued it to the beginning of the line with CA and accelerator. 

Thanks Lynn and Jeff for your comments.

[jerryrbeach]

Steve,

I love to see cars built from kits.  I'm on board with the others.  Those cars came out great!

[deemery]

I flipped through this, particularly looking at your spline construction.  Very helpful text and photos!  One question:  How did you handle turnouts in the spline parts of the layout?  Do you insert a plywood switch template and 'cut it into' the spline, or do you build the Y with the splines?  And does that impact your switch machine mounting?


Thanks in advance! 


dave

[sdrees]

Dave, 

Take a look at this picture and see whether it answers your question or not.  What are you making your splines out of? I did not have any problem mounting Tortoise switch machines.  I mounted them on the underside of the junction of the splines.  I might of glued sort sections of spline material to the main spline to widen them out.  I also might have used a template to check whether the spline junction fit the turnout I was installing.  If you want me to take some more pictures to explain what i did, I will be happy to.

[deemery]

That picture helps a lot, thanks!  I think I'm going to do a test section first, I'm strongly leaning towards servo switch machines.


dave

[postalkarl]

Hey Steve:

Very nice work.

Karl

[Lynnb]

Looking at the picture it looks like you treat the spline just like we treat our 3/4 plywood for switches. Looks good.

[GPdemayo]

Looking good Steve.....

[sdrees]

Started building another Sierra West kit, the Donkey Repair Yard, for the sawmill area on my layout



Makeup of the kit



The Donkey Repair Yard will go here



Resin Castings prepared for painting by using double sided tape and tongue depressors. They are primed with a tan Krylon paint before various acrylic paints are applied.



Timbers for Donkey Sleds



Barrels etc are prepared by drilling a hole in its base, sticking a tooth pick in it and into a foam base, primed and then painted with acrylic paints.




Various metal castings were dipped in Jax and then painted with acrylic paints.



Donkey under repair.



Another Donkey under repair.



A Box Car used for a storage shed.  The car is a resin casting, it was primed with a grey paint, thena grey powder pastel was brushed onto the surface, then an acrylic red paint was applied.  Once dry, a wire brush was used to scratch the surface to expose the grey.



A storage shed with board on board construction



An open storage shed



These will be assembeld on a piece of gatorboard to form the diorama and place in the cork cutout on the layout

[Janbouli]

Great start Steve, I will be following.

[ACL1504]

Steve,

The layout is looking very impressive along with your award winning structures. Love it all.

Of course I'm following along on the new build as well.

Tom

[GPdemayo]

I have this kit in the line-up to do.....looking forward to seeing how yours comes together. 

[PRR Modeler]

Great job so far. I look forward to seeing the rest.

[sdrees]

I appreciate every bodies nice comments on my project.

Thank you