11-09-2010, 03:04 AM
Greetings to all the model railroaders and many thanks for your friendly and honouring comments.
First! Sorry, I did publish an incorrect picture on sixth position of my opening post. Please look for the replaced and correct photo now – showing the corners of side-/end-walls.
I say in discussions every time that HO-scale will be the best size for my model railroading and model building because I must build many times more exactly and I must add more details yet when I would build in O-scale ore larger and I must say that N-scale modeling is to small for me and really nobody will see this details when they are build in half size of that what I build now. I feel well with my modelling in HO-scale also when I must state that my materials (and also results?) have done a small step to finer and smaller yet in last years.
Ten years ago I was lucky to find a dealer who sells wire of 0.3 mm diameter or brass strips of .02 mm thickness (0.012” dia and 0.008” thick). Shortly I ordered wire of 0.010 and 0.008” diameter a first time and in my shelves are stored a few metal strips of 0.1 mm thickness (0.004”). I think that this will be a normal way that my standards in model quality will increase like the time is going. But it is very nice to read that you notice my modeling jobs and that you give me a very friendly feedback.
Wayne, I think also that I’m a fairly crazy old man with my 67 years that I’m building five of these cars instead of one or two. However I had planned to build three models in such an aged condition, two for my collection and one for a very good friend. He sells a very rare and very fine brass loco to me for a very, very friendly price and so he must get one of my models for his high quality collection. But he said that he will get one model in new condition fresh from the car builder – and so I added first one and later two new models to this modeling job and now I know that I will do never will build such a big lot of models. Building one is model is enjoy, absolutely. Building two models is doing without problems because the experiences of first model will carry to second one. The third model is than work not other. And the fourth and fifth – it is often changing to frustration. But now – First I can see the end already and second – another friend financed me my most wished brass loco in exchange to such a car model. I think that this is a good target. (The brass model is a VGN class AE 2-10-10-2 and is standing in my show case already.)
Reinhard, no, I do not own a layout also not a small one. Most models are standing in a show case and only time for time they will run on a short test track. Best are meetings of our friend’s group here in Dresden or visiting the FREMO-meetings in Unna (both large cities in Germany) where I can run such an old time train. But there is the next problem and I think that you know about; all US-modeling groups here in Germany use DCC-systems for their layouts. Unfortunately I own only one digitalized motor car and I do not own the correct DCC-ready engine models. This should be one of my next projects – but I prefer to build model train cars from wood strips many times more!
Sorry for my long explanations, next post will be written about my modeling again!
First! Sorry, I did publish an incorrect picture on sixth position of my opening post. Please look for the replaced and correct photo now – showing the corners of side-/end-walls.
I say in discussions every time that HO-scale will be the best size for my model railroading and model building because I must build many times more exactly and I must add more details yet when I would build in O-scale ore larger and I must say that N-scale modeling is to small for me and really nobody will see this details when they are build in half size of that what I build now. I feel well with my modelling in HO-scale also when I must state that my materials (and also results?) have done a small step to finer and smaller yet in last years.
Ten years ago I was lucky to find a dealer who sells wire of 0.3 mm diameter or brass strips of .02 mm thickness (0.012” dia and 0.008” thick). Shortly I ordered wire of 0.010 and 0.008” diameter a first time and in my shelves are stored a few metal strips of 0.1 mm thickness (0.004”). I think that this will be a normal way that my standards in model quality will increase like the time is going. But it is very nice to read that you notice my modeling jobs and that you give me a very friendly feedback.
Wayne, I think also that I’m a fairly crazy old man with my 67 years that I’m building five of these cars instead of one or two. However I had planned to build three models in such an aged condition, two for my collection and one for a very good friend. He sells a very rare and very fine brass loco to me for a very, very friendly price and so he must get one of my models for his high quality collection. But he said that he will get one model in new condition fresh from the car builder – and so I added first one and later two new models to this modeling job and now I know that I will do never will build such a big lot of models. Building one is model is enjoy, absolutely. Building two models is doing without problems because the experiences of first model will carry to second one. The third model is than work not other. And the fourth and fifth – it is often changing to frustration. But now – First I can see the end already and second – another friend financed me my most wished brass loco in exchange to such a car model. I think that this is a good target. (The brass model is a VGN class AE 2-10-10-2 and is standing in my show case already.)
Reinhard, no, I do not own a layout also not a small one. Most models are standing in a show case and only time for time they will run on a short test track. Best are meetings of our friend’s group here in Dresden or visiting the FREMO-meetings in Unna (both large cities in Germany) where I can run such an old time train. But there is the next problem and I think that you know about; all US-modeling groups here in Germany use DCC-systems for their layouts. Unfortunately I own only one digitalized motor car and I do not own the correct DCC-ready engine models. This should be one of my next projects – but I prefer to build model train cars from wood strips many times more!
Sorry for my long explanations, next post will be written about my modeling again!
Cheers, Bernd
Please visit also my website www.us-modelsof1900.de.
You can read some more about my model projects and interests in my chronicle of facebook.
Please visit also my website www.us-modelsof1900.de.
You can read some more about my model projects and interests in my chronicle of facebook.