Thanks Devon. Not too bad for the “King Butt Modeler”? (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
I, for one, never thought of you as a butt modeler. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Thanks Joe.
Someone, who has an 18 page build thread with no railroad building in it, had labeled me a butt modeler, and then crowned me king butt modeler.
Lol yeah I guess I am choking a bit on my words aren’t I. While busy I have done almost no actual RR building. And here the KING is plowing away.
Ah well I don’t mind eating those words. Looking good my friend.
PS I still stand by the fact that the only reason my build thread is 18 pages is because of all the poop you and Sean shovel into it.
Double post
Devon Sinsley said:
Lol yeah I guess I am choking a bit on my words aren’t I. While busy I have done almost no actual RR building. And here the KING is plowing away. Ah well I don’t mind eating those words. Looking good my friend. PS I still stand by the fact that the only reason my build thread is 18 pages is because of all the poop you and Sean shovel into it.
I think the correct term would be plodding away. I am not moving very fast, but I am moving, and that makes me happy.
As for the fluff in your thread, and eating your words, its all meant to be in the spirit of fun. Even if it aggravates a certain feathered member of our group.
Today I am trimming the semi-scale trees and weeding. More of the stuff that isn’t post-worthy, but also isn’t butt sitting.
Since I spent a good part of Sunday weeding and top dressing my ballast, and since I fixed the track in 2 places, I decided to run my dinner train tonight. If it runs, then just about anything else I have will run. It didn’t run, and I discovered why. One of the coach trucks had broken. A common issue with them Aristocraft trucks from what I understand. Now I have another thing to add to the growing list of stuff I will be ordering from GLX. So I borrowed a truck from a car in storage and then ran my dinner train for almost an hour.
My darn smartphone doesn’t like to take good pictures in low light. That what it is with something that can do so many thing, it tends to not do them all well. But I had to post the pictures, because “without pictures it didn’t happen”.
I finally got off my butt, and ordered a bunch of spare parts from GLX. Next I need to put together a list for TrainLi.
If you want to keep your railroad running, keep running your railroad. In my last installment, I mentioned how the truck had failed on my Aristo passenger car.
On Sunday I ran my RS3 with her coal drag, and the darn caboose derailed. I thought it was odd, and I put the caboose on the track and kept running. As the train passed through the station, I noticed the caboose was wobbling quite a bit. This time the plastic center spacer/holder on the axle broke. So the one set of wheels was not in gauge, or even vertical to the rails.
So I swapped that axle out with a Bachmann set. A few laps later the caboose was wobbling again. Here the other axle on that same truck was starting to fail, so I swapped it out too.
These are both little problems, and dealing with them one at a time is almost a non issue. But if I went to run trains after a long hiatus, and kept finding problems like this, I might end up taking up another hobby.
http://largescalecentral.com/forums/topic/25828/-/view/post_id/317627
Today I fixed the broken truck with a new part from GLX. I also putzed with a project I am working on, and I was over at Randy’s and helped him fix a small issue with his upper reverse loop.
The King Butt Modeler keeps plodding forward.
Today I repainted and relocated my windmill.
When my neighbor had the chain link fence taken down, and the great white wall put up, the contractors just cut off the one fence post/pipe. This left about an inch of rusting metal pipe sticking out of the ground. The great white wall was erected a few feet over on her property, leaving me more room, and a dangerous rusty piece of metal sticking up in my yard. Since I walk around my backyard in my bare feet most of the time, I wanted something to protect me from that pipe. Initially I placed a brick on the pipe, but I wanted something more permanent. Since the windmill had weathered to almost all rust, with just a few patches of gray, and since it wasn’t in an ascetically pleasing location, I decided to take it down, repaint it, re-grease the bearings, and put it back up over the exposed pipe end.
Not too bad for an afternoon’s worth of work, and a few rattle cans of Krylon paint.
Today while I was working on some projects, I set my LGB mogul, the one with analogue sound, on the track and tacked a train to her. After about 3 hours of running, I parked her for my dinner break. When I came back, she was dead. The headlight comes on, the sound board starts, and the smoke unit is working, but she will not go. I reseated the tender connection, and flipped the 3 position switch to each position several times. The motor does not seam to be running. Some rainy day, I will have to open her up and see if the board went south, or if the motor went south.
So, I finally killed another locomotive.
No, I am not proud of myself.
well that really stinks! hope it is something minor
Pete, I need to sit down…ha ha, yea, a butt modeler needing to sit down, I need to sit down and make a list of LGB parts and place an order. I have another Mogul that is slowly eating a gear. Plus, there are a few other parts I want to order.
I have never hear of a butt modeler! The image that brings up is to awful to contemplate.
Ron, Devon crowned me King Butt Modeler, because in his mind, I just sit on my butt and tell others how to do things.
But yea, the images it congers up could be a bit…freaky.
i think, if butt-modelling is freaky, depends on the prototype(s)
Ron Hill said:
I have never hear of a butt modeler! The image that brings up is to awful to contemplate.
I was almost in tears reading this. Could I have ever imagined where a little poke in the ribs would go? i should have expected this.
Page 7?
Nope