Well done wooden planking is attractive. I’d paint the blade silver to contrast with both white snow, which it will appear darker than, and the background of buildings and tree trunks, which it will often appear lighter than.
I think your right about the blade color, right now I am thinking silver on the blade, dark gray for the roof areas and box car red for the sides.
The roof on this car is tongue and groove 1X material painted except for metal on the cab roof.
Rick Marty said:
I think your right about the blade color, right now I am thinking silver on the blade, dark gray for the roof areas and box car red for the sides.
The roof on this car is tongue and groove 1X material painted except for metal on the cab roof.
Hey,
What you do behind closed doors is you’re business. Next thing you know you will be buying scale traffic cones !
Rooster ’ said:
Rick Marty said:
I think your right about the blade color, right now I am thinking silver on the blade, dark gray for the roof areas and box car red for the sides.
The roof on this car is tongue and groove 1X material painted except for metal on the cab roof.
Hey,
What you do behind closed doors is you’re business. Next thing you know you will be buying scale traffic cones !
No Rooster, I didn’t buy them I sold them. Hold on to your seat belt(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Thanks for the interest guys, a little more progress yesterday.
The 4 main sub assemblies stuck together. You can see here how the 7/16 OSB sides of the blade assembly were sawn out to create the outbuild of the blade and wing area.
The main beam up the blade angle and the beam along the bottom edge of the plow are in place as well as the furring to mount the siding on the upper structure of the car body.
Try to get some more done next week.
Thanks.
Rick
If I didn’t know better, I would think a professional was at work here (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)Ya doin’ good, Rick, keep the progress updates coming.
Well this is an interesting turn of events, I think I said in the first post that the Shasta Pacific RR had gotten by for 20 years without a snow plow so there was no big hurry to aquire one. Now it seems we have two plows.
At about 3/4 of the way through building the new plow another plow showed up on the property.
This plow along with several other unique pieces of rolling stock were aquired from a friend that is having to sell of all his train stuff. So I bought all the pieces I did because they were scratch built by him and as I said one of a kind. The pieces are now all on a display shelf in the train room.
It was tempting to dump my plow and just go with this one but it is 1:22 gauge and way to light weight to be effective in plowing. Adding enough weight would be a big job and it is still 1:22 and looks small along side the 1:20 stuff. However I can still run it in a train of the other cars from him ( all 1:22 scale) and maybe pull it with a Climax.
Removable roof to admire the interior detailing.
A shot of the 1:22 plow next to the in progress 1:20 plow.
Life can sure take some interesting turns.
Back to the build.
Just add this new plow to the end of the plow train. Often plow trains had plows on both ends. Being a smaller plow, you can claim it is an outdated model that was replaced by a bigger, stronger model.
Rick Marty said:
Well this is an interesting turn of events, I think I said in the first post that the Shasta Pacific RR had gotten by for 20 years without a snow plow so there was no big hurry to aquire one. Now it seems we have two plows.
So basically you are saying in a round about that you lied to us ?
This post has been edited by ROOSTER: Hell awaits!
Your going to have to change the name from “Big Bertha” to “Little Bertha”…(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Rick Marty said:
It was tempting to dump my plow and just go with this one but it is 1:22 gauge and way to light weight to be effective in plowing. Adding enough weight would be a big job and it is still 1:22 and looks small along side the 1:20 stuff. However I can still run it in a train of the other cars from him ( all 1:22 scale) and maybe pull it with a Climax.
Life can sure take some interesting turns.
Back to the build.
You could install some weight from underneath between the frame rails …
Thanks,
All good suggestions for the newly aquired plow but I think for now it will go on the display shelf with the rest of his 1:22 scratch built cars and I will continue with my build.
Speaking of that here is the latest progress.
The wood body parts are all built, sanded, sprayed with gray primer and finished sanded. I sanded through the primer to expose bare wood so that when I spray on the red primer finish and wipe it with thinner I will get a combination of bare wood and some gray peeking through the red. It worked pretty good on a test piece, hopefully it will on the model.
Can’t do anymore painting until this latest rain storm blows through, supposed to last a few days(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cry.gif). Oh well I can start on the Styrene and metal pieces(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Hopefully something to share next week.
Rick
Starting to get some paint work done on the wood sections and moving along slowly on the Styrene detail pieces. Now that most of the Holiday distractions are behind us maybe I can start getting this together.
My original thought was to paint the blade area silver but I really kind of like the light gray/bare wood look with the red and dark gray roof areas.
So I taped over one side and sprayed it silver just to get a color check, not real accurate because of the totally different surface texture but it at least shows what the silver looks like with the red.
Here is the gray with the red, of course the gray or silver will have a clear matte over coating to kill the sheen. The red is not really as dark as it appears in the first picture nor as light as it appears in the second one, kinda half way in between. I don’t know if the silver makes the red look darker or, my guess, it is just poor photo lighting(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-embarassed.gif)
Anyway, any opinions out there which color I should use for the blade?
Thanks for any input.
The plow is looking good, Rick. Since you asked, I like the gray/bare wood color. The silver just doesn’t look natural to me.
My $.02 is whatever shows the grain on the craft sticks. Hard to tell from those pics for me. I guess the gray but I really like the stained wood (despite it being completely wrong).
Cool projects there Rick! The “flanger” is great the plow looks like it will be too! I love snow plows and plowing.
You can get out all your building blocks and make a plow but Ken and the rest of us would like to see it in use while Ken sits by the wood stove!
The silver makes the blades ass look fat!
Rooster ’ said:
You can get out all your building blocks and make a plow but Ken and the rest of us would like to see it in use while Ken sits by the wood stove!
Rooster,
You are missing the whole point of this build. By investing a lot of time and effort to produce a snow plow it pretty much guarntees that it won’t snow, and that is my main objective(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)