Looking good, Cliff. You might want to invest in some more clamps (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Finally got all the wood subassemblies done, such as the boom frame.
Here’s the overall pile, ready for staining.
From top-bot, left to right:
car body
boom, stabilizer legs, toolbox
truck bolsters, brake beams, toolbox doors
So yay, all the wood parts done! 26 sizes, 266 pieces.
Thanks for viewing,
===Cliffy
Cliff, you do fine work. Its a joy to watch your projects come to life. I believe if I had taken the time to count the pieces I would have just given up (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)BTW: I said MORE clamps, not bigger (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Cliff it is always fun watching your builds, thanks for doing such a detailed sharing, please keep us posted
Dennis
Spectacular and fascinating as usual, Cliff. Always learn new techniques from you.
I noticed that he didn’t list how many rivets …
Sean McGillicuddy said:
I noticed that he didn’t list how many rivets …
Sean, I haven’t gotten to the metal part yet… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Looking good cliff. Carry on.
Thanks for all the kind comments guys, much appreciated!!
Oh yawn, just another beautiful museum quality build by The Cliff …(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
John Caughey said:
Oh yawn, just another beautiful museum quality build by The Cliff …(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
So, you don’t get out to many museums I take it? (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Thanks Brutha John!!
Man I kept thinking to myself: How do you keep it so clean and neat?
Then I wondered if it will be run outdoors?
Probably get smudged, if run out here!(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)
Smudges and staining are hopefully coming tomorrow, John. (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
I’ll blacken all the brass as well, eventually. Always kinda sad when that happens, I’m like a magpie that likes the bright shiny bits.
And I’ll have to run it outdoors, to be able to say I did. At least once, haha! (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Love the detail you are doing. I may have missed something but is this is standard gage right? I seen a photo with three rails and know it not a Lionel… lol Sorry …it got in the 90ths today.
Noel Wilson said:
Love the detail you are doing. I may have missed something but is this is standard gage right? I seen a photo with three rails and know it not a Lionel… lol Sorry …it got in the 90ths today.
Noel, haha! No, not Lionel!
I’m making the trucks in both narrow and standard gauge. NG is for my layout running, and SG version will just be for show (at the v&T conference next October). The V&T is standard gauge, btw.
I wanted the display to handle either sg or ng projects in the future.
Thanks for asking!
I just went over all the wood parts with a wash of diluted India ink, and am letting everything dry out now. Next step will be the tuscan red wash, diluted 1:3 (paint to water). I’ll do that sometime this next week and post pics of the result.
Cliff,
That should work out very well. I don’t recall if I was very precise with my dilution, but the effect seemed good to me…(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Cliff Jennings said:
Thanks for all the kind comments guys, much appreciated!!
It sucks and I see so many mistakes it’s not even funny (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)!
However it’s still good for the 10’ rule. You should consider doing a vignette for Gregs website .
Thanks Bruce, I hadn’t seen your or Rooster’s post till just now. I think maybe my “Send me notifications” gets switched off and I don’t notice it.
But that looks great Bruce, as always, and I’m glad you got to show off some of your interior framing skills! Neat pneumatic derrick, did I miss the story behind that?
Rooster, thanks, haha!
I’ve been focusing on a lot of house / yard fixits lately, so haven’t posted in a while on this project ('cause I haven’t done much with it).
But I did get the stain on last weekend, and thought I’d start today with finish the display. Here’s the parts, with spikes generously donated to the effort by Rooster:
The pieces in the foreground are gauges, and I was looking forward to using them. And I thought the darkening of the aluminum rails would be a piece of cake, but nope, the Jax didn’t take at all, nor did a couple other product I had on hand. So I ended up priming & painting the rails with a few shades of whatever, and the spiking will have to wait.
Maybe I should put in some tie plates? Hmmm… another rabbit to chase… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
While paint coats were drying, I started on the (transverse) sill tie rods. When I first saw pics of the sad debris pile that is now this derrick, I was struck by all the metal rods in the mess. Well, here they are in the model, seventeen altogether, about to be driven through the sills.
In railroading there’s names for everything, and I know / remember very few of them. For example, eight of these transverse rods, above where the bolsters will be, are “body-bolster truss rods”. I had to look that up just now, of course; my memory is ape-doodoo. But it’s been fun trying to get the parts sort of right.
So here’s the sill rods in place, with the main body truss rods & saddles being fitted up.
Final thing for today was installing the body bolsters. In the case of this car, they were of fabricated iron. In real life, big bolts went through the metal “thimbles” and through the sills; their heads were countersunk in the top side of the sills, with the deck planking covering them. In the model they’re just held on by #1 lag screws.
That’s it for now, thanks for viewing.
===>Cliffy
How many tie plates do you need? I recently made a mold of tie plates and haven’t had a chance to really give it a good test for casting.