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I've been working on the Cat Genset over the holidays. Its now glued to the base. Ive added some fire sprinklers, a fuel supply line and exhaust stacks. Here are a few pics Thanksd Carl

I made up a set of chains for my 1/25th scale Massey tractor. Tractor tires are a little easier to work with because of the added size. However the technique should be the same. The chains are basicly layed out like a ladder. The trick is in the sizing. The rungs should be twist links, while the rails are straight links. I drew the patern out on a pine board then pinned the rail chains in place and attached the rung chains. When the chains are installed the rail chain is about the center line of the side wall. Measure this radius, find the circumfrence and that is the length of the rail. the rung length is the distance from the rail chain up to the tread face + the tread face + the distance down to the other chain. All the chian links should be about 1.5 mm to be in scale. I hope this explanation make sense to you folks Thanks Carl

Just a quick update. Spent a lot of time today making fiddely bits. I was starting to go crosseyed so I'm taking a break. I've put togeather the control box for the cooling tower. The guages are from the parts box, the handswitches and indicator lights are made from chunks of evergreen rod painted with Tamyia clear red, green or amber. The battery banks for starting the Cat engine came out of both my Western Star truck models. Each one has four 12 volt batteries (I'll have to glue the baterybox covers down tight on them now :ermm: I started to install cables to wire them up for 24 volt output but its not quite done yet. They will sit on the battery stand that I have still to paint. Each battery will supply one of the starter motors Thanks Carl

INVERHURON DIESEL GENERATING STATION Some time ago I acquired this model The bonus item is the V10 Genset load in the trailer. I also acquired the Norscot 1/25th scale diecast model of the Cat 3516B Genset. To me it was a natural to build a Diesel Generating Station diorama using these two models as the key elements.I have worked in a nuke power plant for 30 odd years and I figured it was time I had my own little generating station. It will be known as Inverhuron GS. I came up with an old record turntable cabinet to form the dio base. This fixed the dimensions of the dio and the number of elements that could be included in the dio. The Cat model is a self contained skid mounted genset. It only requires some detail painting and it could be dropped into the dio. The Revell V-10 on the other hand is a very basic engine. It will need numerous bits of auxiliary equipment to get it to a replica of a running machine. After much searching around the Internet I believe that Revell modeled this engine from a V12 Sultzer Genset. For some reason they lobed off a couple cylinders. Probably so it would all fit in the box. By the time I had tracked down this information I had already painted my engine cobalt blue instead of their alpine greenish colour and will leave it that colour. This is the basic layout that I came up with The floor is a suspended ceiling tile on a particle board base. The notch in the right corner is the outside area. The Cat rad will sit in the wall. A cooling tower for the big engine will also sit in this area. The auxiliaries for the V-10 will sit along the left side of the engine. The walls will be cutaway to indicate that there is more beyond the boundaries of the diorama. This also means that I don't have to model a roof and all the widgets that would be hung from it. A mock up of the walls and cooling tower The gravel lawn has been planted and the concrete piers for the cooling tower are installed. The walls are glued in place and details are being added. The cutaway edges are painted in flat red to highlight the fact that they are cut away Looking out through the opening for the Cat's rad. I've added a controller for the louvers and started to install the electrical outlets. The ladder and catwalk is for maintenance access to the cooling tower via the roll-up door. That's all the progress I've made so far. The build will continue counterclockwise from the cooling tower, to the Cat, To the Sultzer, to the auxiliaries and back to the front left corner. Thanks for looking Carl

Hi Phil This is a very well designed and executed diorama. The story is there, the workmanship is there and the compsition is excellent. One thing did catch my attention though. To me your garden hose looks more like a fire hose. It looks to be out of scale. I think it should be about 1mm in diameter to be in scale. Thanks Carl

I have to agree with Harold. You need good snowtires and an educated right foot. I had a 68 cuda ffastback 383 4gear and a 70 Challengers 440 sixpack and both cars were excellent in snow. Both had posi which helped conciderably. The Wife's Grand Cherekees are good snow goers but my pickup trucks have all been 2 wheel drives with posi and snows (my preference is Blizzacks). They will get me through any snow that I should be out and about in. The best vehicle I have ever seen in snow was an old 53 Dodge Power Wagon with a big old welder in the bed. It would wallow through anything with or without roads. Carl

Thanks Guys I'm not a big fan of diecast, but sometimes its the only game in town and you have to use whats available. This model is a decent 3' model but any closer and the flaws become evident. It was a fun build but I glad to get back to more workable plastic. Ed, this car probably hung out at a Supertest or White Rose station in its younger days. Thanks Carl

Hi Mark These Bantam diecasts represent early 50's vintage models. The salvage crane comes with a magnet, orange peel clam and a salvage clam here is a link to some pics of it http://www.constructionscalemodels.com/pro...?recid=%2010412 One of these would work in well in a scrap yard dio from any time post war. Carl

SpeCast made a series of diecast Bantam crawler cranes and shovels. There is a front shovel a cable hoe a dragline and a salvage crane. They are all 1/25th scale and quite well detailed. They are all powered by Chrysler industrial flat head 6's This is my version of the cable hoe with some weathering and an operator and the front shovel, also with some weatheriong and an operator Thanks Carl

A Friend of mine has a pair of matching 55 Desoto hardtops. He has been looking for a model of his cars since forever with no luck. A couple months back I found a Motormax 55 Chrysler 300C diecast model. I stripped this model and converted it to a 55 Desoto. Here are some pics of the finished model. I builld the presentatioon base for the car. The Giesz Motors plaque is a new dealer car sticker from the 50's. My buddy used to work for this dealership in the '60's. Thanks Carl

Excellent scratch buld Ed. Your tank looks just like the oil trucks that I see around here. I assume that the 1993 placard is because it was used to all miscellaneous dregs from tanks that could have been anything petroleum based. A sharp looking working truck Carl

Thanks Bob. Its all back the way it should be again. Carl

View new posts os the way I always check this forum. Carl

Maybe I missed something along the way, but... With the new format of only showing the first line of replys, How do I expand the string so that I can read everything without having to back track back every time ,then backing all the way out toget to the index of new posts again?. I must be doing something wrong because this seems like a step backwards Thanks Carl

To bad I missed this post when it originally appeared. I just became the proud owner of on of these wrongly labled kits today. Being the scale biget that I am I guess it will end up as a parts kit. It may serve as a pattern for a 1/25th scale scratch built at some future date. After reading your post I won't bother sending the scathing e-mail I was planning to send to Lindberg. buyer beware and all that Carl

Nice weathering job on the skid stear, Chuck. I did something similar with a 1/25th scale bobcat diecast loader. It sure makes the model look more accurate. It also draws attention away from the things that make it look like a diecast Great work Carl

Your gas station is coming along great, Ed. Very nice work Carl

Hi Nicholas I think there is a G scale dealer out in the Coburg/Port Hope area. I've never been there so I can't help you there. Other than the usual collection of train places in Toronto the best G scale spots are in Guelph and Aliston. Both are a bit on a road trip for you though. Carl

Hi Nicholas, what part of Ontario are you from? I might know of a Garden railroad dealer near you. As or accessories you could check out "Larry's G scale " http://www.larrygscale.com/servlet/StoreFront. He has a ton of stuff that might be what you are looking for. Thanks Carl

Hi Nicholas. The train scale you are looking for is "G" scale. However there are about 4 different scales that all use the same gauge of track. G scale track is 45mm between the rails. This gives a standard North American rail scale of 1/29th scale. Aristocraft and USATrains use this scale. European trains of this guage are 1/22nd scale. All LGB trains are this scale. Narrow 3' gauge trains are 1/20.3 scale. Most Bachman models are this scale. Take your pick. I think the building kit makers are mostly 1/24th scale. and some 1/32nd scale trains use the same track I hope this helps more than it confuses. Carl

I just completed This diorama. The story line is about a gravel truck that was once owned by my uncle. The '53 ford was once a diecast wrecker. I took ths picture after I had it torn down. I changed the front and back suspention, added recaps to the tires, modified the running boards and scratch built the saddle tanks . The trailer is entirely scratch built. The original 1:1 was shop built by my uncle back in the '50's. This model is based on my imperfect memory of his truck. The base is an oak flooring box surounding a blue Styrofoam board road. It is one of thos narrow lane and a half rural roads. The surface is a mix of sand, rail ballast andscreened stone dust. The fresh gravel is maily sand and ballast. Everything has been lightly weathered. I have tried to depict the truck spreading a load of fresh gravel. Thr driver has pulled the trip rope which opened the gate on the bottom of the hopper to allow the load to slide out. The trip mechanism does work. Thanks for looking Carl

Good looking rig. I realy like your paint scheme. The load straps are a nice touch also. Carl

If you can find the kits, the Blazin Bison pull tractor has a colman cooler and a wagon. The Revell Garbage truck kit has 2 surf boards and scuba tanks. Thanks Carl

Thanks Everyone for the compliments . I to am a big fan of scratch building. Since there is not a lot of choice available for trucks and especially trailers, scratch building is about the only option to get some models. Once I got my head around the fact that any project is just a series of small projects building these scratch jobs became a lot less intimidating. I have one more model to build for my gravel pit diorama. That would be a surge bin that holds the gravel from the crusher and dumps it into the trucks. The surge bin will go at the end of this conveyor belt off my Sandy crusher Somewhere else in this forum is the story on the crusher but I haven't found it yet to post a link. edit note: I tracked down the tread on my crusher build. If your interested it is here http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.p...rusher&st=0 Thanks Carl