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.
Never heard of the guy myself Korm.
hmmm, yes, i forgot the cultural differences.
for humans and felines Schrödinger is something similar,
as in your society the question, that puts doubt into every hen’s heart:
is Colonel Sanders the name of an eagle or a fox?
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Not sure, but perhaps just as much as:
I get it about the copper. I went to buy some Romex at HD a month ago, and wow all the wire was locked up!
In an effort towards un-jacking your thread… how’re these coming? And what the hell are they?
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'Impressive architectural model" they said… sounds like you had quite the appreciative audience at the HARB panel.
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What they didn’t add was just before the minutes officially started. I asked since you have scene my plans can we get this ball rolling cause I’m hungry and want to go to my 1;1 home.
Cliff,
I have absolutely no idea what they are nor do I care. What I do care about is the 10’ rule and how cool they will look in a consist. Remember, I’m building junk outta junk cause I somehow became the “cut off king” …thou shall save thine cut offs from damnation!
SO once again most of (pretty much all) of the material I’m using is
“MAKING JUNK OUTTA JUNK”
I am suffering from that at the moment. I have a big box of 2x4 drops in the attic. I think they may end up in the fire pit.
Good plan Jon.
I have wood scraps I have saved over a 40 year period and am now giving them to the neighbors to use as kindling in their wood burning stove. 
offcuts - the game one can’t win.
there are just two possible outcomes.
- one guards them.
if a piece is needed, the guarded offcuts are wrong in length, angle, curve, thickness, or whatever by at least 15%.
so you have to use two offcuts and saw them to measurement.
- one decides to saw and fit a new piece of material - leaving new offcuts for guarding.
- one throws offcuts away.
this option is easy. only new material occupies space.
option “2” comes with the absolute guarantee, that any thrown away piece would be a “perfect fit” somewhere within less than a month.
offcuts create the perfect lose - lose situation.
( ps: cleaning out my hobby room for the next layout, i am working on the second pick-up-truck-load of offcuts and “maybe somewhere, somehow usables” - knowing, that throwing half of them will cost me buying new replacements - but i don’t know, which half)
Now that I have a bandsaw and thicknesseser I too am making very fine pieces for modelling kindling.
…and did I mention saw dust? (Lots of that!)
vott’s dätt?
one to twenty for the system
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Planer-Thicknesser: A combination machine that provides both surfacing (jointing) and thicknessing functions.
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Technically I think it should be called a thinneser
ah!
now i understand.
ein Hobel.
i have one too. the ecology-economy optimized type.
fixed blade (so no rotary sound molestation)
elbow-drive (low energy footprint)
protein controlled speed
I believe it was you when I announce our move that advised to ‘pack everything and sort it at the other end’. I pretty much heeded that advice except I brought very little wood. When we started moving in and I needed to make/repair things I missed the well stocked wood rack in CT. And now, my local lumber supply has closed 
I pretty much pitched or burned all my “wood cutoffs” when I would get them. Now I do save the hardwood or unique wood though. My scrap pile mainly consists of PVC, acrylic or composite.
I’m not 100% happy with the junk but this is the test car and I see changes. The Mik build actually helped with this car as it made me take kinda glamor pics I wouldn’t have taken otherwise. I am really gonna miss them critique phone calls once the “old man” analyzed BOTH sides!
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Whatever they are, they look great. After looking at Car Builder’s Dictionary though, I think they’re called “hangy-downies.”