01-15-2010, 03:01 PM
From one Ralph to another, thanks! They are pretty nice, but the one that was scratchbuilt up at the NMRA Hartford convention this past summer was REALLY intricate! All the correct truss rods and nut and bolt castings, hardware, ect. A true work of art, mine are mere (but nice) stand ins. Wait till I give it a dose of stain, rails and other basic hardware, and THEN it'll be 1/4 as intricate as Tom Griffith's contest model. His was built to be admired, mine is meant to played with!
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