They look fine to me, insert your favorite googley eyed meme here!
Bruce Chandler said:
Devon Sinsley said:
What can I say Dan. The riveters were at Jim’s late last night and weren’t walking to straight this morning.
Actually when you have the weirdness that is my vision they look straight.
The clear answer is you NEED MORE BOURBON!
Bruce, I agree 100% with that statement (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Dan Hilyer said:
Bruce Chandler said:
Devon Sinsley said:
What can I say Dan. The riveters were at Jim’s late last night and weren’t walking to straight this morning.
Actually when you have the weirdness that is my vision they look straight.
The clear answer is you NEED MORE BOURBON!
Bruce, I agree 100% with that statement (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Me too!!!
Devon Sinsley said:
Dan Hilyer said:
Bruce Chandler said:
Devon Sinsley said:
What can I say Dan. The riveters were at Jim’s late last night and weren’t walking to straight this morning.
Actually when you have the weirdness that is my vision they look straight.
The clear answer is you NEED MORE BOURBON!
Bruce, I agree 100% with that statement (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Me too!!!
Me did!!! CHEERS (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Well I’m jealous. Here you are drinking top shelf and I am drinking Old Crow. Glad I didn’t make the comment I was gonna make about people from Alabama not knowing what good bourbon is.
Well, most red necks from down here don’t know or are too cheap to drink good bourbon. But I like it … a lot … so I don’t drink it often. Nothing wrong with Old Crow, it has a good flavor, just not as smooth as WR.
Got the cab built. Starting to look like a locomotive
Well it looks like your little friend has come down with a bad case of well organized pox-idis… rare to be that organized, but not unknown in certain circles
Dave T.
What do the controls on this thing look like … more air, less air, reversing valve …?
I would bet that the throttle and reverser could be identical to a standard steam locomotive. Looking good!
Dan and Eric,
I have been pouring over pictures of several compressed air locos and the answer is yes and no. They are mostly like a steam loco but not entirely. The forward and8 reverse is identical to a steamer in that they use a Johnson bar to reverse the flow of air in the “steam chests”. But the throttle is a bit different. From what I see the compressed air leaves the back of the tank and heads onto a reheater which is a large pipe on the side. I am not got to pretend I understand that part. But then it goes into a valve at the front of the loco just before it branches to the air chests. I assume its a butterfly valve that has linkage that runs back to the cab to I assume again a throttle handle. Speed is just a matter of opening and closing the valve. Steam does do the same thing but in a bit different way. This is just extremely basic. You will see more when I model it. There are some pictures of the valve and plumbing which I am just now starting to tackle.
Devon Sinsley said:
Got the cab built. Starting to look like a locomotive
Love that cab, could we get a few more angles of it? Also any plans on how to gray the wood? Or are you staining/painting it?
Yeah I can get a few angles if the cab. As to finish i like the stained wood of the prototype. But I think for a mining tram it should be painted black. That what I’m gonna do. As for graying wood I like to score it to give it a deep grain. Paint it white then a light grey. Then sanding lightly to expose a bit of the white. Then a wash of black alcohol or india ink.
So as promised here is the details around the throttle. Sorry for the blurry picture but by the time I zoomed in it was the best I could do. But in the close up you see a control lever attached to some sort of valve. I am guessing butterfly but don’t really know. This is connected to a rod that extends back into the cab. So I assume its just a matter of opening and closing (throttling) the valve to control air flow. The valve is right above where the air splits to the two air chests (what do you call them when there is no steam and thereby they are not steam chests?).
Might not a mining loco have been in a high visibility color like yellow? Just curious. Thanks in advance! Also, the cab is great! Lots of ideas for the post-Mik Rehabilitation of the Missile Sponges to steal from your project, Devon!
Eric
Eric,
Thats a thought I have yet to have. Since the prototype was NOT a mine tram thats probably why its not yellow. But a lot of the compressed air locos are yellow. And I have a lot of black locos. Maybe yellow would be cool. And then a stained cab.
So I started on the details. The sand lines, reheater pipe, link and pin couplers, the little bar that locks the hatch on the front. And some angles of the cab.
The details are really starting to make it look like a legitimate engine. What are the pieces in the last photo?
The beginnings of the cylinders. One thing I noticed on the pictures is that the valve gear boxes (cant call them steam chests) are small. I am resisting the urge to hyper detail this. Its gonna be a regular runner I hope so I am leaning on the ten foot rule. Thats hard to do.
So got some detail work done. Got the cylinders put on and started the plumbing.
