FSM Kit #295 Fox Run Milling Build by ReadingBob

[GPdemayo]

Great work Bob.....I'll try to get by your place to check it out before you take it to Expo. 

[ollevon]

That looks awesome Bob,  can't wait to see it at the Expo.
  Sam

[ACL1504]

Perfecto and all that---- and more. Well done.

Tom

[Slim Jerkins]

Nice work Bob

I finally got a chance to catch up here. I like your lighting contraption. You might like making those even more after you try copper tape. Saves on messing with short lengths of wires.

If you want to warm up that one gooseneck that's a bit blue hit the LED with a little dot of the clear yellow paint from Tamiya.

Those three LEDs working off of a nine volt and a current limiter must be pretty dim unless you've got a really strong battery. With three white LEDs in series and a nine volt battery you can get away without using a current limiter. However, if you decided to run the model off of a 12 volt or higher power supply you'll risk burning out the weakest of those three LEDs

What? you didn't want to make another gooseneck light? I just got done making about fifty of them to take up to Springfield.  I've really developed a love/hate relationship with those buggers.


Congrats again on a totally awesome job. 

-slim

[ReadingBob]

Bob,

   Looks awesome! What did you do for the rooms inside the buildings? I like the inside of the room of the small building.

Alan

Thanks Alan,

To be honest I didn't do too much for the rooms inside the building.  I did add a figure (as suggested in the instruction) into the scale house room in the front of the small building.  That room turned out to be the biggest headache I had when I added the lights.  My original plan was to make the roof of that building removable but the smoke stack on the rear wall has guy wires attached to it that attach to the roof so I had to scratch that idea.  I had drilled a hole the interior wall just big enough to push a 3mm LED into.  I had cut an opening in the base so I could get to the interior of all the buildings.  Well, getting that LED into that hole after the fact was quite a challenge.     Eventually I got it in though.

If you look real close at the lower window in the stairway on the main building you can  see a little blue painters tape and a red wire.     It's an open window so I'll probably get daring and try to poke a small paint brush with some black paint on it to paint the tape and wire.  I could pull the contraption out and paint it but it was a tight fit and I'd rather not go risk doing that.   

[ReadingBob]

Great work Bob.....I'll try to get by your place to check it out before you take it to Expo. 

Thanks Greg.  Yep, either swing on by or we need to have a SBG meet before the EXPO so I can show it the rest of the crew. 

[ReadingBob]

That looks awesome Bob,  can't wait to see it at the Expo.
  Sam

Thanks Sam!  Much appreciated.  I'm looking forward to meeting all of the forum regulars that are attending the EXPO.  Should be fun!

[ReadingBob]

Perfecto and all that---- and more. Well done.

Tom

Thanks Tom!  Much appreciated.  I'll bring it down one of these days when the Judge is around to show it off.   

[Zephyrus52246]

First rate craftsman work as usual, Bob.  Can't wait to see it at the Expo.


Jeff

[ReadingBob]

Nice work Bob

I finally got a chance to catch up here. I like your lighting contraption. You might like making those even more after you try copper tape. Saves on messing with short lengths of wires.

If you want to warm up that one gooseneck that's a bit blue hit the LED with a little dot of the clear yellow paint from Tamiya.

Those three LEDs working off of a nine volt and a current limiter must be pretty dim unless you've got a really strong battery. With three white LEDs in series and a nine volt battery you can get away without using a current limiter. However, if you decided to run the model off of a 12 volt or higher power supply you'll risk burning out the weakest of those three LEDs

What? you didn't want to make another gooseneck light? I just got done making about fifty of them to take up to Springfield.  I've really developed a love/hate relationship with those buggers.


Congrats again on a totally awesome job. 

-slim

Thanks Slim!     I do need to pick up some of that copper tape one of these days.  I did hit those goosenecks with the clear yellow from Tamiya.  Maybe I need to hit it again.    

For the pictures I was powering this with the power pack from my Digitrax Zephyr.  The 3 LED's and 1 Current Limiter won't light with just a 9 volt battery.  I need to find a "no longer needed" power supply from something discarded and convert it to something I can use at the workbench for testing this stuff.  I have tons of old wall warts in a box somewhere.  I just need to find one that outputs at least 12 volts.  I typically use a 3 to 1 or a 2 to 1 ratio of LED's to Current Limiters so 12 volts is all I really need.

I'm running low on LED's and stuff.  I hope you'll be hawking your wares at the EXPO.    

[ReadingBob]

First rate craftsman work as usual, Bob.  Can't wait to see it at the Expo.


Jeff

Thanks Dr. Jeff!  Much appreciated!  I'm looking forward to seeing you and all of the other forum regulars at the EXPO.

[coors2u]

Bob, you have done a fantastic job on this build. I have really enjoyed following along as you went. Top notch work.

[GPdemayo]

Great work Bob.....I'll try to get by your place to check it out before you take it to Expo. 

Thanks Greg.  Yep, either swing on by or we need to have a SBG meet before the EXPO so I can show it the rest of the crew.

Sounds like a plan Bob.....I'm looking forward to seeing it. 

[S&S RR]

First rate craftsman work as usual, Bob.  Can't wait to see it at the Expo.


Jeff

What Jeff said.  See you at the EXPO.

[clevermod01]

makin me wish i was going.
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