Ez's 2014 summer kit build challenge

[Sumpter250]

Just in case someone thinks I'm kidding, or that I gotta man up to working with small parts, here's a picture of some that I still have to assemble. [ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]

Those parts are just "a wee bit bigger" than the shackles and shackle pins I made, for the rigging on the 1/96 scale Pilot Schooner.

5X Optivisor, a self constructed bending jig, a couple of 4" needle nose pliers, and a pair of tweezers with, virtually, needle point tips. :o

Oh I forgot the most important tool - - - - an extensive vocabulary of "swear words", expressed loudly!
It doesn't do a thing for "model work", but it does help relieve the stress.

[ezdays]

Just in case someone thinks I'm kidding, or that I gotta man up to working with small parts, here's a picture of some that I still have to assemble. [ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]

Those parts are just "a wee bit bigger" than the shackles and shackle pins I made, for the rigging on the 1/96 scale Pilot Schooner.

5X Optivisor, a self constructed bending jig, a couple of 4" needle nose pliers, and a pair of tweezers with, virtually, needle point tips. :o

Oh I forgot the most important tool - - - - an extensive vocabulary of "swear words", expressed loudly!
It doesn't do a thing for "model work", but it does help relieve the stress.

I would think that they should at least make these parts so that when they go flying off of your tweezers, you at least know which direction they went in. :o The thing is, that if you make the parts from scratch, you can at least make new ones, but when they give you four parts and you need every one of them, you're screwed when you lose or break one one.

[ezdays]

Next step is to add the pilasters.

   

After that comes the roof supports and fascia...

   

Note that I DID NOT use any of those microscopic parts to hold the roof supports up. The one piece that went to neverland, came home, but it was too late, and I figured I'd just lose it again if I tried to use it :? . I just added some spacers where those parts went, they're going to be hidden by the roof overhang anyway, so I still have to wonder, why????? I guess in Denmark, they like their challenges a bit more difficult than I do, plus, they must have steadier hands and much better eyesight than most people. That's not a bad thing, what is though is when you get to my age, you're lucky you can see the part on the sprue to cut if off, never mind find where it went when you do cut it.

[Tyson Rayles]

Hang in there Don, it's almost done!

[eightyeightfan1]

Nice start.

Looks like its missing a couple of small detail parts though.

[Steamtrains]

"when you get to my age, you're lucky you can see the part on the sprue to cut if off, never mind find where it went when you do cut it."

Don (ezdays) Day

Been there...Done that...
Now I place a strip of masking tape across the pieces to be cut off to keep them from flying into unknown dimensions...

[ezdays]

Been there...Done that...
Now I place a strip of masking tape across the pieces to be cut off to keep them from flying into unknown dimensions...

My biggest problem is that they somehow sprout wings when they get picked up with tweezers...SPROINGGGGGG.... away they go. Somewhere behind my bench should be a pile of small plastic parts and springs about a foot deep.

[ezdays]

Giant step, got the freight depot walls in place, no teeny-tiny parts to deal with...

   

I also have lighting panels for each section. I used incandescent rather than LED since I want to be able to dim them, and the LED's I have don't dim too well.

   

[Sumpter250]

I would think that they should at least make these parts so that when they go flying off of your tweezers, you at least know which direction they went in. :o

Ahhhhhhh, that tiny CLICK !!!! that signals the, spitting out, of a tiny part from the "beak" of a pair of tweezers. AKA, "The model builder's nightmare"

I know that feeling all too well.....of the thousands lost in the carpet, you would think at least one would be found. not yet, anyway. Probably will find them all on the day I no longer need any.

[ezdays]

Ahhhhhhh, that tiny CLICK !!!! that signals the, spitting out, of a tiny part from the "beak" of a pair of tweezers. AKA, "The model builder's nightmare"

I know that feeling all too well.....of the thousands lost in the carpet, you would think at least one would be found. not yet, anyway. Probably will find them all on the day I no longer need any.

GPS, yes, that's the answer. Each part should be imbedded with a coded GPS chip and a signal locator should be part of every kit that is programmed for those particular parts. I'd hate to use the GPS locator from one kit only to find parts that I lost from another kit months ago.. . Either that, or they design each part so that it can be held firmly with tweezers without going.... TWANGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. These innovations should not add any cost to the kit either...

[AF350]

Coupler springs are the worst on kadee couplers as far as locating those that spring lose.

[Steamtrains]

Coupler springs are the worst on kadee couplers as far as locating those that spring lose.

I don't even try looking for them...They sell packages of springs just for that purpose...

[ezdays]

A bit more progress. Lighting panels are installed, and the roofs and rain spouts are now in place. There is still a lot of touchup and cleanup to do, as well as some detailing, but I think just about everything included in the kit is now in place. (Well, except for those eansie, winsie, tynsie roof support brackets, and I can add them later if I ever find all the parts )

Lighting panels in place:

   

Roof details front and back:

   
   

[Tyson Rayles]

[Ralph]

NIIIIIICE!!!!!!!! looks great! I'm impressed that you lighted it too.