Thursday - December 26, 2024

[ReadingBob]

Morning all,

I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season!

We'll be flying up to PA tomorrow morning to visit family for a few days.  Hopefully the weather, airlines, etc. all cooperate. 

I guess I have my next project lined up for when I complete the Winter build challenge thread.  Santa likes to shop at FOS Scale Models, so he left me a couple of kits under the tree.  The Frank Lava Gunsmith will likely be the next one to hit the workbench.

Have a great one!  

[GPdemayo]

Morning all.....

[Mr. Critter]

Hello from Montréal, Québec, Canada.  New member here, requesting permission to board the train.

Found this board by complete accident yesterday while googling for information about an old Thomas Yorke structure kit.  Spent the rest of the day reading build threads from beginning to end.  My eyeballs bulged.

I've loved model trains since childhood, but I've primarily been a structure modeller, when I've made models, on and off.   The aesthetics of architecture have always interested me.  Haven't had a layout since my teenage years, but I've built buildings from kits and from scratch at odd intervals.  Recently dug out a stash (stored in a 1940s dynamite box!) of uncompleted and never-started projects after realizing that I actually have room in my apartment for a small narrow gauge switching layout.  Seeing the stuff in daylight after 20-odd years  has given me impetus to do something. Finding this board has truly put the spurs to my horse.

The projects at the top of my list are:

- A Yorke Rubbles Depot kit, HO scale.  Mr. Yorke was kind enough to pour me a set of castings long after the kit went out of production.  It came with no door or window castings, though, nor instructions, so it's sat in the hall closet since 1990- until circumstances permitted me to find an original kit for sale on eBay at a not-stupid price.  Now I've got two of 'em, and I want to build them both.  In wildly different ways.

- An unfinished scratchbuilt HO styrene model of the Wiscasset & Québec (later Wisacasset, Waterville, & Farmington) Wiscasset Pier station.  Started it based on plans in one of Peter Barney's books.  I must've spent months trying to get its witch hat tower-top to look palatable.  I didn't throw anything away.  It's finishable.  I aim to put paid to it.

- A HOn3 Jonan 18-ton Climax locomotive kit.  Brass. Bought on a whim.  Utterly terrifying. But, hey.  I need to screw my courage to the sticking-place, as Shakey wrote.  Head down, soldering iron up.

The threads I spent yesterday reading have inspired me.

Oh.  If you're wondering about my handle, most of my accumulated locomotives are around 16-26 feet over the end-boards. GE electrics, and little Shays and Climaxes.  My Southern Pacific DF-700 50-tonner is the hulking monster among them.

[Rollin]

Good morning, Bob.  Safe travels in your northward journey.

Good morning, Mr. Critter, and welcome. Always happy to see new faces on the board.

Good morning, all. Enjoy the last few days of the year.

[Raymo]

Morning all. Just putzing around this morning. Painted a few things at the spray booth after breakfast and I'll probably clean up the bench. Eye doctor appointment for ma at 2, so that will screw up the later part of the day. Enjoy what ever your doing.. Raymo

[Mr. Critter]

Good morning, Mr. Critter, and welcome. Always happy to see new faces on the board.

Thank you, sir.  Happy to have found true enthusiasts hiding under a latex casting of a rock.