Marty's O Scale stuff

[hartleymartin]

16 hours ago, 34006 said:

Ah,yes.What is known as Sod's(or Murphy's) Law.Or as Parkinson put it,"Work expands to fill all available time."Or was it"Life's a bitch and then you die."

 

Take your pick.

 

Phil

 

I decided at the end of last year that I had to open up some more personal time for various forms of self-care. I managed to hand over my weekend job as a church organist (which I have had since I was at college) to someone else who I mentored for a couple of years. The weekend job as an organist was great when I was a student and when I was struggling to find regular work during the week, but now that I have weekday jobs coming out of my ears (I am a maintenance contractor) and I am doing night classes to get a trade certificate as a cabinet-maker/furniture-maker I decided I needed weekends back to myself. Except for Sunday mornings. I can spare an hour a week for my religion, but now I am no longer tethered to an organist's position, I can travel and visit historic churches!

 

Picked up my new airbrush, compressor and spray booth from the hobby supplier today. My On30 bashes will recommence because now I can get to painting!

[hartleymartin]

What do you do when you have two Bachmann On30 Consolidations? Why, you double-head them of course!

I have to admit that I hate the "onion stack" on No.28 and will change it for a straight stack as soon as I get one.

[hartleymartin]

Found some more Trix Tippers. I actually now have enough that I might put the couplings I saved back onto a couple of them and put them back into their original cardboard box so I can make them available to a collector.

 

[hartleymartin]

I acquired a BLI C-16. And I have decided to back-date it to resemble a Queensland Railways C15 Class from the 1880s. First two items was to replace the original pilot with one that has a working coupler and a smaller tender more in keeping with the era. Both come from Bachmann and are for their On30 Mogul. I used an online article from the On30 Annual website as a guide for the pilot upgrade: https://on30annual.com/ditching-the-dummy/

 

I have written a more detailed account of process for "7th Heaven" which is the journal of the Aus7 Modeller's Group and it is due to be published in June. In the process, I did some research and edited the wikipedia articles to include historic images of the locomotives.

https://aus7.org/

 

Edited March 26, 2023 by hartleymartin

[hartleymartin]

I recently acquired a set of 1970s-era Atlas O gauge track. The type with 24" radius curves and points. I set it up with a Bachmann Controller on the floorboards and had the first ever opportunity to give a few locomotives a continuous run, including Planot No.5 ex Coney-Hill. Not photographed (yet) are a Lima O gauge 0-4-0 Diesel Shunter, Atlas 0-6-0 Plymouth Shunters (I now own 6 of them - how did that happen?) and my prized Manning Wardle H Class, NSWGR No.1021. Photos will follow in due course.

 

Planot No.5 in my posession gained some large sprung buffers, brass door handles for the side panels, and a couple of extra hand-rails. A little bit of extra weight was added under the nose to rectify a slight tendency to perform wheelies.

 

For a steam-lover, I have an inordinately large collection of small diesel shunters.

 

[34006]

Cheeky little thing!

[hartleymartin]

Had an impulse purchase of a 1970s-era Atlas F9, some 40' Reefers, 40' Stock Cars and a couple of cabeese. One of each all shown here: