Looks like Smitty is explaining to Bossman that it would be better if they just raised the bottom of the door to clear the dirt. (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
David Marconi, FOGCH said:
Looks like Smitty is explaining to Bossman that it would be better if they just raised the bottom of the door to clear the dirt. (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Ahhh yes,but you know how bosses are.
Doc Tom
Well, last week Smitty was assigned to dig some dirt so the engine house doors could be hung. Unfortunately, Mr. Smitty went wild with his new “DREMELLO”tool and cut into the electrical wiring in the foam he had forgotten about from last years work. Big Boss Man had to put four guys on the job to dig up the wiring, repair the wiring, replace the dirt and finally hang the engine house doors.
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Well, today they saw their work was paid off as the engine house doors swung open revealing a real steam spittin’, fire breathing, Little Porter Lokie ready for a days work………….
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………. of moving big timber.
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Thanks for looking and hearing my…Errr Smitty’s confession(http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/images/angel_125.gif) about the cut wiring. Forgetful Doc Tom
Nice! Sorry about that buried wire that should have been located by the “locating service”. You did call them, right? Oh, never mind.
Ric Golding said:
Nice! Sorry about that buried wire that should have been located by the “locating service”. You did call them, right? Oh, never mind.
No idea what Smitty was thinking about on that important day of the BIG DIG.
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Doc Tom
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Ric Golding said:
Nice! Sorry about that buried wire that should have been located by the “locating service”. You did call them, right? Oh, never mind.
Way to go “Tattle Tale”… or as my boy would say …“That building looks totally dope but Ric Golding is a nark”!
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Call before, you dig? (Read that while wearing a goatee).
Doc, this “little” project just keeps getting better and better. When will you retire and devote yourself full time to modelling? That would be something.
John Passaro said:
Doc, this “little” project just keeps getting better and better. When will you retire and devote yourself full time to modelling? That would be something.
Thanks John. 4 years and 11 months to go until I become a part-time doc @ age 70. Hope to be full time modeler then!!! Doc Tom
It took a week but Big Boss Man got the boys to hang some windows on the backwoods engine house.
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I think these are Grandt line castings. They were distressed and weathered. There ws no material for the glazing. So Evergreen products to the rescue.
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I obtained their clear styrene sheet and carefully cut two windows to fit each frame. I toyed with leaving them “glassless” but since this is a mini layout set in winter missing window glass would be noticed.
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Thanks for looking. Doc Tom
Oh yea, out there in the Ozarks you need to have a bullet hole or two. Them hillbillys shoot at anything they think may be a Revenuer.
David Maynard said:
Oh yea, out there in the Ozarks you need to have a bullet hole or two. Them hillbillys shoot at anything they think may be a Revenuer.
HEY! That’s my family your talkin bout. We use shotguns and there better be more than 2 holes in any target, unless it is was a slug and there is one big hole.
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Lemon cough drop, the cheap ones from the dallah store. You put one of dem in the corn squeezins and the girls get giggly.
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Friday night means you put the new ax handle in the gun rack.
This weeks adventure on the mini logging layout was to build a simple wood burning stove for the engine house. Using an old metalcasting of a 55 gallon drum in “O” scale and bits and pieces of styrene from the scrap box I built up a backwoods stove. The stove pipe is from a piece of shrink tubing.
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The wood burning stove was positioned to avoid fouling the locomotives and kept a good distance from the wooden walls to avoid burning down the engine house.
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I purchased a package of micro LEDs wired to look like flickering fire and installed it into the stove. The LEDs provide a nice fire effect that will look good on future videos.
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One little trick I tried was to make the open firebox doors visible through one of the windows on the outside.
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To complete the scene there will be good ole boys sittin’ back in chairs keeping warm and feeding the fire.
Thank you for looking. Doc Tom
Ric Golding said:
David Maynard said:
Oh yea, out there in the Ozarks you need to have a bullet hole or two. Them hillbillys shoot at anything they think may be a Revenuer.
HEY! That’s my family your talkin bout. We use shotguns and there better be more than 2 holes in any target, unless it is was a slug and there is one big hole.
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Lemon cough drop, the cheap ones from the dallah store. You put one of dem in the corn squeezins and the girls get giggly.
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Friday night means you put the new ax handle in the gun rack.
Suh, I believe you meant The Company Store, that’s the only place that accepts the script, with which, you were paid!
Giggly is so much better than chatty!
Nice stove, I can see the locals warming themselves at the window!
Is Smoke for the stove planned ?(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Sean McGillicuddy said:
Is Smoke for the stove planned ?(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Hmmm. Have to think about that a bit.
Doc Tom
This week I put in some kerosene lanterns in the 1910 backwoods engine house. They are flickering LEDS mounted to a round bottom fuel bowl from the spare parts bin.
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I mounted them on shelving above the height of the engines. This gives overall illumination and allows for peaks inside the engine house.
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Thanks for L(http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/images/bigeyes2_125.gif)king.
Doc Tom
Took the day off from the clinic today. Placed some rafters on the engine house.
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Before sealing it up and putting on the roof I put a few details inside…including “Old Man of the Woods” warming himself by the fire.
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Thanks for looking. Doc Tom(http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/images/icon_smile_approve.gif)
Tom
Are you going to just rest the roof in place … incase you want to do more / add extra stuff inside?