Thanks Pete. The stripes are just a random width of the Tamiya tape I had on hand. Looks good, and I did a fancy angle at the side of the hood.
I struggle with wanting my kids to learn how to build/use tools vs my desire for quiet modeling time.
The struggle is real! Our house is pretty small, and we are lucky to have a yard. For now, my only alone times come with an 80 liter tank on my back and 30-45 feet of tropical seas over my head!
Eric
Nice looking rear end, eh? Mudflaps, ladder need final coat of paint but all the fiddly bits are done now.
Great details Craig. When will we see it all together?
Todd Haskins said:
Great details Craig. When will we see it all together?
Hopefully soon. Here’s a teaser photo with the cab just placed on top. About the only details left at this point is the wind deflector and the running lights. I prepped the brass sheet yesterday with bluing fluid that I’m going to use to make the wind deflector.
Here’s the other truck. This one just needs the exhaust stack added and a few other small details, like the airlines. I was looking at my stash of parts and found my O scale glad hands I have saved for my GP30 project and was thinking of stealing those for now to make the airlines for the truck and trailer.
Both trucks need some more weathering and final touch ups. Next week is spring break, so I want to get these trucks off the bench before break so they I can build the layout over the break, hopefully…
What have I built myself now?
Bobby pin?
Eric Mueller said:
Bobby pin?
It does kind of look like that. No, it’s my attempt at a leaf spring.
Wow Craig you have done a Job only a few could do, GREAT Job
Dennis
Dennis Rayon said:
Wow Craig you have done a Job only a few could do, GREAT Job
Dennis
It’s not that hard to scratch build. Just take you time. I’ve never shared the piles and piles of scrap pieces after making mistakes. One of the goals to keep in the MIK spirit was to use up some of these scrap pieces, which I have slowly been doing. But this project already has lead me to some workshop redesign/organization needs to sort styrene scrap. I’ve been meaning to do something for a while, but this project is showing me it needs to be done sooner than later. Maybe this summer?
Craig,
If I may suggest, get some containers for scraps you don’t intend to use, sort them by material type, and make them available to your kids. I’ve found that these “gemuckabuckets” as we call them in faux German never quite empty but never remain full, either, as the contents become parts of various projects.
Eric
Eric,
What I was thinking about was taking some foam core and building a few different stackable trays to sort the styrene into various thicknesses. That way it becomes a little more manageable when looking for scrap styrene. I’m also forcing myself to replace strip styrene back into the package after I cut a piece off. I have so much scrap styrene. Shop infrastructure projects in my mind are just as important as regular projects.
Here’s my tub 1 of 2 of scrap stryene. This is mostly big sheets, and strips. The other tub is a little smaller and is mostly 1"-3" sized pieces. Both are handy to have but I have a drawer full of other crap that also needs organization. I’ve seen some guys make drawers out of styrene but I’m too cheaper to waste good styrene on drawers, so foam core it is, and with some hot glue foam core is super easy to build with and fast.
Okay, so I lied… Round 1 of stryene storage had started. $20 worth of foam core and some hot glue plus 45 minutes. Gave me a .015, .020, .030, .040, .060, and .080 strip storage. This is for pieces longer than width. I couldn’t handle thinking about this any longer. I’m going to let this sit for a while and see how I like it before making more storage. And it’s really boring measuring each piece of scrap to make sure it goes in the right section.
Don’t worry, I’m still working on the trailer and trucks. This was just a one night project.
Bumping this back up to the top as I’m trying to cross this off my unfinished project list.
One of the parts that was holding me back was the trailer axles. Dan aka Manimal has 3d design of a container chassis available so before I broke my printer, I printed a axle and jack parts.
The rest of the build so far is coming back out of the junk box. I figure I have maybe another evening or two and it will be ready for some primer and paint.
Here’s some bits and pieces.
This model is nowhere near my ‘normal’ standard of exact details, but rather a simple what could be. I really don’t have much information on these trucks, but I did recently find a couple more trucks that I will eventually build and then rotate on/off the layout.
Ed Weiss photos. So I’m pretty sure the trailer in this photo is an open top style. Not sure if it was used to transport feed to the farms. My other theory is that it was used to transport cotton seed from Woodinville to Redmond. The feedmill in Woodinville was co-owned by DeYoung as well, and they got boxcar loads of cottonseed for feed. I’ve yet to find evidence of cotton seed being delivered to Redmond via rail, but sending it via truck makes sense when they are only 20-30 minute drive away from each other. The other box truck I’m not sure it’s function, but maybe some type of mobile mechanic?
And then we have this truck. This should be a straight forward build of a 1/24 kit that just needs an extension on the back.
I’m way off on my color scheme for the original truck. Oh well. I’ll probably keep the same wrong color green just so they look similar. But that’s what happens when you try and color match black and white photos!
Craig, the truck in the first picture looks more like a dry van than a open top, as there is no rollover tarp , which would be on passenger side when loading, plus not a lot of that type of open top that has the smooth sides
Could there be a dock back inside there for sack loads and for trucks to deliver pallets and pallets if empty new paper bags? Just my thoughts
Could be right? I have another photo of a slightly different angle. I saw I saw one photo ( but now I can’t find it) shot above looking into the interior of the trailer.
I have no idea if there was a dock on that side. It’s about 12’ wide between the building and the silo. The only photo I have of that angle of the building doesn’t show a dock/door but that could have been added later.
Pete,
I think you’re right on the trailer. I double checked my photos and couldn’t find the one I was thinking of, but I did find one that has a early style Sealand container on a chassis backed up to a loading dock in that area. Low and behold, looked at the foundation blueprints and it’s marked out as a loading dock.
Well that answers one question.
And my earlier comment about cotton seed, I’m sure it could be loaded in a box trailer right? I’m pretty sure it was baled coming out of the boxcars.