It is a fantastic model for sure, how about a side by side with the prototype? Are you going to build out the interior, perhaps in the same era as your art deco lounge car?
The flooring in those cars is super cool as well as the furnishings. I’d drink a g’n’t in there and watch the miles roll by.
I love this forum! There’s always an expert on some related or semi-related topic. 
Jim, Wait till you see Rooster’s baggage car!
Neil, Korm, just nod your heads knowingly here.
Rumours are circulating widely through the southern hemisphere regions of LargeScale Centralia that Rooster is quietly installing a camera and adding a “sounds-of-the-CVRR”sound card including:
Just so you know Jim, it’s a (fantastic) model of Rooster’s house. He did a side-by-side when he made the model, maybe someone could find the link to that build thread…?
Pilots for both ends are finished with a coat of paint/buildup and curing inside. The accessories will be added later when dry.
Mounted couplers on both ends and started working on the junk underneath with the junk I have. A chunk of composite board with a piece of 1/2" stop molding along with some pieces of Evergreen styrene.
Thanks, I’ll look around for it. I have seen some great shots of the interior of the 1:1 house but not the exterior.
That is incredible! Thanks for the side by sides, really impressive and inspiring. I live in a circa 1915 cottage and hope to model it soon. But it’s plane jane next to this!
Got 4 HVAC units ready for primer and paint. Figured I might as well make up a batch, that way the next 3 cars go quicker and besides I was already “tooled” up and rolling. I’m still short 3 units however I was kinda getting bored and 4 was enough. Besides then I can change up the next 3 a bit differently if I want.
While the primer dried I added the HEP cabling and painted the MU ports on the pilots. I made a mistake one one of the pilots and tried to correct it but in turn from the mistake I learned something.
Moved on to making more junk outta junk and this is where I quit for the day as my play time is over and back to the old salt mine tomorrow.
BTW…thanks again for those Glenn Miller CDs you let me burn I mean borrow years ago. I feel that sometimes the music from those same eras help me think while I research. If not they at least tend to keep me focused as to what the hell I was looking up to start with.
I have found that listening to Metallica, Pantera and especially Tool while looking at period furniture and passenger rail car decor causes you to go “WHOA” now that is a badass settee that I need to make!
Making Junk from Junk truck main frame and side frame cut offs from another build (or many) along with some composite board scraps.
Now a peek into my top secret spray booth. I get the shop nice and toasty then open the door, turn on a box fan and spray. Then when done I shut down for the day and let it dry.
In case you are wondering…YES…I have done the head cut out just not on that particular box above cause it was the boys and he had his Dick Hands (a guy I know) all over it so it’s a paint booth.
The box is awesome, but is the pizza any good? Pizza in town here really sucks. Frozen baked in the toaster oven is better than local!
The box is just a bonus as the pizza is excellent. That shop has been a staple in town since I was a kid.
Is the red end of the HEP cables just a piece of shrink wrap?what gauge/ size is the cables?
Pete,
They have been covered many times before on LSC along with being told you cannot do this and you cannot do that by experts so I just do what I can do.
It’s kinda like going “AROUND and AROUND and AROUND and AROUND and AROUND and AROUND and AROUND”
Round and Round by 
Sitting here at 9:30 pm watching a train go roundy roundy round , just like prototype trains do when running long distances , also being followed about a scale 15 minutes later by another train running same consist , and being followed by another scale 25 minutes by another. Exact definition of ops is to operate, long distance not local peddler trains!!!
Back working on the junk outta junk. The material is plastic truck frames and some composite board scraps. Totally neglected to take other pics cause I was just doing my thing. But you get the idea or hopefully.
Dude, I think we’ve given it enough time for you to bring it up, but I guess I have to. Sometime this spring, you really need to go out and paint your downspouts copper to match the model.
Sure …and do you wanna laser cut me a sign that says “Come Steal These” only to find out it’s not real, however I still have to replace my downspouts. Hence the “weathered copper” look.
If the trim was a different color the gutters would stand out.
Now the roof is a different story! If they wanna climb up there and steal it “God Bles’em”.
Since I’m in the historic district I require HARB approval. So instead of telling them what I was gonna do I showed them. However there was one bone head on the committee that wanted to be a metal roof salesman.
They have no requirements on ornamentation so I played with copper there as well.
BTW …What does this have to do with CVRR OCS ?
BTW…I have been steadily repairing the old photobucket links if anyone even cares.
IF anyone cares, you have repaired pics??
and if nobody cares, you haven’t?
sounds like a Schrödinger’s rooster to me.
