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Thanks!I just saw that it isn't my ten wheeler, it is one of my Moguls... :-)

My Ten wheeler. HO scale.

Good evening all! I will revive this old thread by sharing a drawing I did tonight: Pencil drawing of a Swedish Sb class locomotive.

1:87 scale, kit built. Mixed media.

It works now on the Sony!

Installed the app on my Sony tablet, but it force closes instantly...

Minturn station on the M-K & E RR. What do you think?

Latest update on my layout: The Minturn station. Almost finished... Just some weathering left to do. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/638/entry-14948-part-41-the-minturn-stn/

At the local narrow gauge convention, I bought a Detail associates kit for the "Foothill station". The kit is sold out since many years, so I guess it could be hard to find another one.... It is a mixed media, but mostly wood, kit with plastic windows and doors. The building is made for two levels of terrain which I will use to serve two railroads. A standard gauge railroad on the upper level, and a HOn3 narrow gauge on the lower. A bit like John Allen did with Corsa on the G&D. So, here are some pics of the build: I made fake nail heads on the walls with a Trumpeter rivet wheel. The various posts were a bit fiddly to line up against each other..... The roofs shingled and test fitted: Next step was the windows and doors. And painting it. I used Humbrol enamels for all of the painting. The windows were glassed with slide covers as I find them much realistic. The almost finished kit as it stands now: the nailheads can just be seen here.... Just a bit more to do, as connecting the lights and lay the tracks in front of the station. some ground cover would be nice as well.. A "vintage" pic of the station: It will represent the station in my freelanced version of Minturn Colorado. And how it looks with foliage and sand etc:

This is a really good model of the bridge! The towers look spot on!

No no no... maximum grade is 3.5%. And that is on the bottom loop. The layout is 4.5 x 6.6 meters. So if you measure most elevations, they are 2%.

Yes, it is 10.5 mm.

I stay well clear of that part of the world.... An Aussie friend of mine who is an active RC aeroplane modeler, he says that if you place something by itself, it is "offered to the spiders".... Everytime he was preparing the planes, he had to get them out of the fuselage etc. first, as he didn't want any surprises... He started to put his planes in sealed plastic bags just to save time.

Need some more 1:87 1930's era cars! The postwar era is well covered by others, so I hope OD see the opportunity to fill this BIG gap!

Thanks! I hoped to give it some likeness. :-)

Ahh, but it isn't sea going! :-) It is going to be a river/lake port mostly for timber transport..... And the mountains will be on the bottom part, so you will look at the parts separately. And it is no worse than multiple layer layouts. ;-)

Thanks for the input. :-) The room is 650 x 450 centimeters. The minimum radius will be 65 centimeters and the minimum mainline radius 70 centimeters.

Hi all, I felt that it has become a lot of changes to my model world . So much so that it required a new layout thread . It all started with my Middletown, Kensington & Eastern RR that I built for the 2010 challenge. A layout that would depict a fictional New England in 1943. Thanks to a move to larger premises etc. I started to build on it, and add on to it a little, but felt that it did not really work ... : ( My good friend and museum owner Peter Haventon offered then to aquire the layout to have at his transportation museum! What also changed my focus is that I happened to buy a pair of D&RGW narrow gauge " Mudhens " in HOn3 . That " blunder " made me go back to my roots of inspiration; John Allen and Malcolm Furlow! My first real layout was a Colorado mining railroad built after Furlows style and mindset. It was trafficked with what was available at the time, a Rivarossi Heisler and a number of low side gondolas. My book about John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid RR ( Gory and defeated ) that I got when I turned 12 was totally worn out when I was 18, so I bought another one! Now I had an idea! Could I not move my fictional railroad halfway across the continent to Colorado? I have way too many locomotives and cars with custom company painting to decal and reapint to the new name ..... So if the MK & E could become the Minturn, Kings divide & eastern RR instead? Minturn is located within the D & RGW's narrow gauge network. So if my fictitious railroad connects to the narrow gauge in Minturn and then broke new ground to the north east via Kings Peak and then on to Idaho springs and Denver? Oh, yes! Then I can have narrow gauge, standard gauge and dual gauge. I will still use a bit more poetic license and do a port! But it will become a river port! So now I have the dilemma of taking down the framework I 've worked with..... But they are easy to modify to my new idea. The new track plan is basically a copy of the G & D! However with some modifications to suit the space given. What was given as well was that there will be mountains from floor to ceiling! What makes this a fun plan is that you have to run around all the loops to run one lap! And it will be easy to have overview from the middle of the room.

Hi all, I felt that it has become a lot of changes to my model world . So much so that it required a new layout thread . It all started with my Middletown, Kensington & Eastern RR that I built for the 2010 challenge. A layout that would depict a fictional New England in 1943. Thanks to a move to larger premises etc. I started to build on it, and add on to it a little, but felt that it did not really work ... : ( My good friend and museum owner Peter Haventon offered then to aquire the layout to have at his transportation museum! What also changed my focus is that I happened to buy a pair of D&RGW narrow gauge " Mudhens " in HOn3 . That " blunder " made me go back to my roots of inspiration; John Allen and Malcolm Furlow! My first real layout was a Colorado mining railroad built after Furlows style and mindset. It was trafficked with what was available at the time, a Rivarossi Heisler and a number of low side gondolas. My book about John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid RR ( Gory and defeated ) that I got when I turned 12 was totally worn out when I was 18, so I bought another one! Now I had an idea! Could I not move my fictional railroad halfway across the continent to Colorado? I have way too many locomotives and cars with custom company painting to decal and reapint to the new name ..... So if the MK & E could become the Minturn, Kings divide & eastern RR instead? Minturn is located within the D & RGW's narrow gauge network. So if my fictitious railroad connects to the narrow gauge in Minturn and then broke new ground to the north east via Kings Peak and then on to Idaho springs and Denver? Oh, yes! Then I can have narrow gauge, standard gauge and dual gauge. I will still use a bit more poetic license and do a port! But it will become a river port! So now I have the dilemma of taking down the framework I 've worked with..... But they are easy to modify to my new idea. The new track plan is basically a copy of the G & D! However with some modifications to suit the space given. What was given as well was that there will be mountains from floor to ceiling! What makes this a fun plan is that you have to run around all the loops to run one lap! And it will be easy to have overview from the middle of the room.

Here are some better pictures : It is fiddly with the small struts that holds the walkway.... The doors with fittings and brackets . The ladders are made of jig-bent nickel silver wires with Grandt Line nut-bolt-washers . Painted! Properly cleaned, primed with plastic prep for improved adhesion on plastic and then painted with Polly Scale D&RGW freight car red. The sides and ends are clear coated with Future Kleer to prepare it for the decals. The original: Now it's just the couplers left to add and the decals and some light weathering. It was a good test run before the construction of the rest of them. I intend to build 10 of them in the first round. Next build will be in mixed media with a wood body/chassie and brass/plastic parts.

I sat down last night and started building on the boxcar. I used Evergreen HO boxcar siding and strip stock. The trucks are brass from my drawer.... ;-) Here's what it looks like after two evenings job: You have to excuse the bad pictures, I'll need to take better ones tomorrow. :-) Now, there is just the grab irons, tie rods and some Nut-Bolt-Washers from Grandt line to add. It is always the first build that takes time. Very much looking at it and the drawings and pondering how best to get to it.

Hello! I 've had a Bachmann three truck 80 ton Shay in HO in quite a few years now. The original: The Shay has experienced quite a few revisions, among other things, the exchange of the cracked plastic gears with metal gears from NWSL . The largest revision was when I had gotten tired of the lousy tracking of the middle truck. That was when I rebuilt it to a two truck version: (see http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/638/entry-5254-part-6-shay-conversion/ ) Now I've always wanted a narrow gauge Shay. Luckily I found a conversion kit made by NWSL . They are really a big help for us tinkerers! The kit included new axles , bolsters , brake beams, shims and installation tools for the axels. I disassembled the original trucks in a flash, and in another flash the new parts were fitted. The hardest thing was to push the wheels on to the new axels. How it looks now : A small film from the first test drive : Throughout a fun conversion that gives a super Shay in HOn3!

Hello everyone! I have built a bridge that I've longed to build for many years! Namely the Central valley 150 foot Pratt truss bridge in HO! It may probably be one of the trickier bridge kits on the market .. I think it may have something to do with that it is built of loose beams that has to be cut to the right lengths and angles ..... But the end result more than outweigh the difficulties. I built it as a dual gauge bridge with both HO and HOn3 gauges. With a bit of painting and weathering it will probably be a jewel on my layout. To be continued. Continued: A comparing pic of the CV bridge and Vollmer's version.

Hi, I was thinking of having this thread to show my builds of Colorado narrow gauge stock, preferably from the D&RGW . There are certainly a lot of RTR in HOn3. Both locomotives and wagons, but there is a satisfaction in creating them yourself. In particular, the boxcars are very simply constructed, and they often differed a bit from each other because of revisions and general changes/repairs ..... What I do not intend to build myself are the couplers and trucks. As they are available quite cheaply, it hardly justifies building them from scratch. Same thing with the brake cylinders. I'm going to try to build the cars in different materials: Plasticard, wood and brass. Then I can see how the various materials of the models will end up compared to my wishes about how the result should be. Here are the plans for the first build: I was looking for drawings of the 3000 Series boxcar on the net, but what was there did not correspond entirely with the pictures I have of the originals .... Therefore, I drew my own drawings: You can also see the preliminary drawings of the DSP & P car ... Bogies and decals are acquired. Plasticard and Northeastern with the correct plank width and spacing is ordered. To be continued.