Falk Locomotive build

[bruce.oberleitner]

Hey Bob,
Awesome stuff!  I can't wait to see you running this little gem on the railroad!

Any chance that you will be at next weeks mini meet?  We will be running Jimmy's old "Run away Ore train" for the first time since Jimmy's death over at Bill Chapman's place.  Turns out I had the train (i.e. the 80 mini Ore Cars) and Joel got the Bigboy.  So it's kind of a joint venture between myself, Joel and Bill.   Hope to see you there!

[GPdemayo]

Hi Bob.....growing up near Oak Park, did you ever get over to Petersen's for their ice cream?


I had the worlds best pistachio there when we were on a visit to Chicago back in 1987.

[bparrish]

Greg................

I don't recall the name Peterson's.........

Recall that I left there in 1966 for my all expense paid trip to Viet Nam.

I did get to the center of Oak Park and the business / merchant district with some regularity. 

My favorite place was the Esquire Restaurant at Madison and Oak Park Avenue.  It was run by a shirt tail relative in the Greek community who ran the restaurant into his 90's.  That was in the early 1960's.  Uncle Louie knew everyone in town I think.  He and my grandfather were cousins and no one had a chance when they got into swapping lies.

I named a building on my railroad after him even though his place was a corner store front.......... I built it as a diner as part of a conversation with Candy some years ago.

see ya
Bob

[S&S RR]

Bob


Very nice build! I'm also waiting to see this masterpiece all painted and on the layout.

[bparrish]

So here are a couple of shots with the grimy black on the various parts.

Some of it went a bit dry so I had to wet sand a few parts.

Now I have to wait for about three or four days for it all to gas out and firm up.

For you boys in the east.......... it's gonna be in the 60's by the week end so I can open up the garage and speed thing up a bit.

Then seal it all with clear flat and then start back together.  Otta take about a week to get it back together.

see ya
Bob

[gnatshop]

The grimy black makes it look more like a locomotive!
Smoke and coal dust everywhere!!

You're a glutton for punishment - I'd never remember how the parts went back together!!

[DACS]

Hey Bob:  Dave here.

I dropped in to the forum after a long absence and saw your progress on the Falk.   She's a real beauty sir.  Absolutely gorgeous work!

Dave  HWCRR
Seattle

[bparrish]

Dave..........

Thanks for your  remarks.....

I have it painted but reassembly is a bit slow as I'm finding that I made some stuff so close that paint takes up space.

Never had to deal with that in HO.

I found an old jar of Oily Black acrylic that has just a hint of metalic in it so it reflects a bit of light and looks really wet and greasy.

see ya
Bob

[bparrish]

The Falk is going back together with paint on it.

Put the electronics back in today and decided to see how bad I hurt in by taking it apart, painting it and stuffing it back together.  I am amazed how many fitting steps had to happen all over again.  I guess paint takes up space.

So here it is.

see ya
Bob

https://youtu.be/i7U7S1uPLPo

[ollevon]

  Just amazing Bob, great job.
  Sam

[S&S RR]

Looking good Bob!

[gnatshop]

To quote Frankenstein:

"It's moving. It's alive. It's alive."!!

[martin.ojaste]

Bob, it ran quite quietly! TheY never tell you hiOW thick a coat of paint needs to be. LOL


MARTY

[ACL1504]

Beautiful job Bob, really love that loco.

Tom

[bparrish]

Martin...

When I was at Mercedes Benz we had a device that could be placed on the surface of a hood or trunk lid and it would tell the thickness of the paint in hundredths of a millimeter.  There really wasn't much there but they, like other manufacturers made a science of making paint stick to stuff.

They even had a paint at the time that was more flexible which they used on the sides of the cars from the door windows down to resist door dings.  Then they had some stuff that looked like it had styro bead in it that they used along the rocker panels. Pretty amazing stuff.

The difference in what they use and we do is the amount of " build " that they put in the paint. The manufacturers and the body repair businesses both have a primer that will hide a 30 grit sanding scratch.  You could hide and entire HO locomotive  under that  ! !  ! ! !..

Our paints have very fine ground pigments and thin carriers to get it on there.  Then the distillates are designed to go away to nothing leaving all of the detail showing.  Car makers don't want that detail showing.  People expect very smooth shinny finishes.  We want flat weathered finishes.  Cars get to look like that after a few salt winters in Boston but not when new.

Thanx for looking in.
Bob