Wednesday, January 7, 2026

[Zephyrus52246]

Morning all,

Very foggy here this morning.  Headed to a high of 48 degrees later.  Since it's relatively warm, I'll be heading to Lowe's this morning to get a new fixture for an outdoor flood light which has broken.  Then when it warms up this afternoon, I'll play electrician.  

Jeff

[KentuckySouthern]

Another dull grey one....about 45 shades short of a best seller... Visibility is about 100 yards in my yard

Little planned yet, the paint shop is still in use.

Careful with the light, Jeff.  I been ordered off of ladders here.  Unless it's something she really thinks we need to have done....

Snow's about gone, I think the haze is from the transition of it.  The correct term has vanished from my data bank. 

Be well all.

KS

[GPdemayo]

Morning all.....

[Jim Donovan]

Good Morning;

Central Florida is also foggy but now in low 60's, should be a nice day.  I hope to work on some garage stuff today and clean the house up a little. Tomorrow is the Boss's big day getting the right knee fixed up. It has been a year since the first botched job so I have my fingers crossed our new surgeon gets her all better, it has been a painful past year for her.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Jim

[deemery]

We got ice last night...  I had a lab appointment, and the 'vampire' was late.  So the wait was more than an hour.  But I did my thing, in preparation for next week's quarterly doctor appt.  

I'm still pondering my next project, but I'm leaning heavily towards finishing the NESL passenger car.

dave

[jbvb]

Good morning, Jeff, Karl, Greg, Jim, Dave and later arrivals. At the other end of NH's salt water coast (all of 25 miles), it's barely freezing with a light icy drizzle, forecast to continue to sunset. But tomorrow's high is expected to be in the 40s. I have several jobs I should get to work on. I'm not sure any of them will be modeling.

[PRR Modeler]

Best wishes for your wife Jim.

[Jim Donovan]

Best wishes for your wife Jim.

Thanks, frankly first time I have seen her looking forward to an operation. That tells me she is indeed hurting.

Jim

[deemery]

Finishing the NESL passenger car kit won my "what to pull off the shelf?" competition.  The body is complete, the challenge is to do the roof.  The original kit came with roof stock that has a solid clerestory, i.e. the clerestory window openings are not cut out.  NESL also did open clerestory, where they mill out the opening (as a single slot) for the clerestory windows.  Since I have just one piece of that, I figured it's worth practicing my roof technique on the solid roof.  LaBelle's wood coach kits come with similar wood stock of slightly different dimensions.  I got Rick to custom-cut some roof templates to match the NESL profile.  Today I started finishing one end to match the LaBelle templates, then glued the LaBelle inserts into position.  That's clamped and glued, so I can start sanding to finish the roof outline tomorrow.

dave