I got these 1:300 figures for like $5 on Ebay. I’m including the bigger dudes to keep this thread G-rated.
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And we’ll want to see them properly painted for the period 
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Haha! Sure David! 
But with my painting skills they’ll come out looking like vertical mouse droppings. 
I apologize for not making much headway recently. My employers are sending me to Japan for most of March, and I’ve been preparing for that trip.
Said preparations including setting up material for a research subject related to the Sutro Tunnel: the DS&CVRR, upon which the Joe Douglass loco (which I made a model of a year ago) ran.
Long story, but I’ll probably be posting a bunch of stuff on this, starting in a 1.5 weeks, since that’s the only RR thing I can work on there.
However, I do plan on visiting the RR museum on Kyoto if I can… And maybe riding a bullet train. We’ll see.
Cheers,
Cliff
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Send me a handful of them and I’ll see if the SpeedPaints work on something that small.
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Painting those guys seems like the perfect hotel project… Just need a few colors of paint and lots and lots of time. 
Oh and a microscope!
Well Cliff, one thing about it, won’t take much paint.
Don’t only ride it rail fan it if you can !!!
Oh look your G scale friends like to play with dolls.
About those fittings for the cover, Rooster did a FANTASTIC job blasting the chrome off. I sent them to a local powder coater, and just got them back yesterday.
They look great, and the finish is tough as nails.
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Those look great. Roo sand blasted them?
I wonder if the screws will go right back in, or if you’ll need to run a tap through them to clean out the threads.
Sure did. Well, beads (vs sand) I think.
About the threads, I was hoping the coat would be thicker for a better grab on the plastic screws, which are a bit loose. This powder coat is like an anodize or chrome in thickness though, almost not there. Very true to the surface.
Put a couple dabs of clear silicone on the plastic screws.
@ Jon …glass beaded
Nice job rooster and cliff. I am happy you found a solution to make it perfect. It would be a shame to compromise there when everything else is so outstanding
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Great teamwork, Cliff and Rooster. Those look fantastic.
Usually when things get powder coated they protect any holes to not have buildup which may chip off if needing to be clearanced… usually.
In response to Rooster’s comment earlier… this is all the rail-fanning I’ve been able to do this week:
This was taken when the car was half empty. I wouldn’t have been able to raise my phone to take the shot if it were really full.
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BTW, I’m playing the tiniest part in a so totally amazing production.
My part is insignificant, but I’m glad to be associated with this amazing daytime theatrical work. The dancers have to remain intensely energetic for the many repeats of the show as it travels.
I’ve been working only on the mechanical side of the floats. So I was blown way in experiencing the show, on the street, as the floats ran by as performance progresses. Universal Studios Japan has clearly created new things that other theme parks should pay attention to, IMO.
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Some may have thought I was kidding about full trains, so check this video taken in Tokyo.
At long last, I’m getting back to the Sutro Tunnel site model, specifically the buildings.
The base coats went on everything a couple weeks ago.
It took quite a while to CAD up the doors and windows for each building…
…and to figure out how to use the Cricut to cut their stickers out. I’m relieved that it worked, I sure didn’t want to knife all these tiny perimeters.
I assembled and stickered a couple buildings just now, and I guess I’m ok with how it looks. Could be lots better but I’m really needing to get through this and to the other phases of the project.
After all the buildings get this far, I need to weather and seal-coat them.
In the mean time, to steer this thread towards being more G-Rated,
Cheers,
Cliff
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