poor Rooster - always missunderstood.
i’m sure that he put cookie crumbs on the table.
Well technically it is junk to most however I will rephrase that into “repurposed” materials. I did purchase the sheets of shingles though. As for the house, the 1:1 prototype does not have a weathervane just a finial on the witches cap like the model.
Korm is correct Pete, I don’t think Cookie will get nose bleeds from sugar? Now if you thought it was salt then I suspect that is a different story.
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:
- Pre-departure: a confident cluck-cluck-whirr as the doors latch, followed by an unnecessary but reassuring crow—as if the car is clearing its throat before service.
- Under way: a steady rumble-thrum-thrum from the trucks, overlaid with a faint chook-chook-chook resonance from the floor framing, purely coincidental and absolutely not acknowledged by the designer.
- Dynamic braking: a melodramatic whoooo-AAARK that starts like a turbine spool-up and ends like a rooster objecting to the concept of deceleration.
- Load shift: a dignified shff-thud-settle of trunks and mail sacks, immediately followed by a spring complaining with a sharp bok! from somewhere you can never quite locate and disembodied a voice yelling “help I’m stuck” and “it’s all Bill’s fault!”
- Track irregularities: over joints and diamonds, a rapid clackity-clack-clack punctuated by a proud metallic KERR-DOK, as though the car is pleased it survived another structural challenge.
- At rest: as the train stops, a final ssss-clonk of air and couplers, then a long, satisfied creeeak as the frame relaxes—ending with a solitary cluck that suggests a loose chook in the car found Rooster’s multigrain sandwich.
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!!!