DanielG

I run my own shop so I have my own stuff and pictures of other peoples stuff all over the place!

I am between cars. My daughter likes red. My wife drives blue when she is not driving red and white (with red and white lights!).

Nothing special, I just think it turned out to be a nice combination.

As above, there are many avenues of approach to get to the desired result. I am usually building some thing that never existed but I think would have been cool if it did or something that existed but no one manufactures as yet. Here is hopefully a link to one of my builds to give you an idea of some working methods.

TS-13 can provide some very 'interesting' results. The most common mistake is to spray it on too soon, even over Tamiya lacquers. Even if it does not attack the base material it can crack, showing up days later. Very annoying!

I built that model when I was in my teens. Back when the instructions were in English and every part was named and you actually learned something when you built a model. I knew the name of every halyard and sheet and stay by the time I was done. A cathead got broken and I could never properly fix it so it ended up being junked. Better luck with yours.

Paint it blue and it looks exactly like the ones around here. Good job!

Well, after 20 years on one of those trucks I can tell you that looks exactly like a working garbage truck, after being on the job for only about a week. Also, you missed the smell entirely! Great job!

Very nice work, Dave. I try to do scale for other people but I do gauge for myself. A little fudged to fit with my Lionel stuff.

I built this transfer caboose for a friend's railway. Scratch built to 1/48 scale out of styrene with metal grab-irons etc. and a wooden deck. It covers a heavy brass cleaning component, trucks are Atlas (I think!).

Very interesting project. I thought that these brutes were all to a larger scale. I know some guys are taking them stock and displaying them.

At first I thought that you were going to make do with the shorter body but I see the saw has come out! Good job.

Hello. I have not done much with die-cast cars (I assume you are talking cars) lately but I seem to recall that Testors and Bhurago did some simple kits. The bodies were die-cast and the detail parts mostly plastic. You don't need anything special to assemble them. If you start to disassemble built models to modify them then I would suggest a good fine-tooth saw (Zona) and an assortment of small and not so small files, sanding supplies and fillers for metal. Checking out the various builds posted on this site (not just die-cast) will help point you in the right direction.

The most effective thing that he did in this dio is to put the vehicle IN the dio not on it! Everything follows from that.

Classic, great job!

Great job as always, Randy! It is almost enough to get me inspired to start on my F88 project, almost, and in a bigger scale and not any where near as elaborate, should I actually get motivated.

Thank you. It keeps me from going squirrely!

A nice look overall, and I too like the whites.

Don't you just hate when guys photoshop their 1:1 into the thread? Great work!

Looking good so far!

http://modeltrainforum.com/showthread.php?t=24066 Thank you. Hopefully this link will work. The thread will give you some idea of the process. The tender is mostly styrene with a bit of brass for strength.

Great job.

You will get lots of opinions on the 'correct colours'. Try and find colour photos or video and use them as your 'best guess'. I harken back to a pic of a B-17 fresh off the assembly line with three shades of Olive Drab, depending on whether it was a dope or paint or laquer.

A couple of pics of a heavily modified pre-war Lionel 225E 2-6-2 into a Pacific 4-6-2 based on the Canadian Pacific #2317. The tender is scratch built with modified Lionel trucks.

A few more bits of eye-candy.