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This is getting interesting! Can't wait to see the finished product.
Reminds me that I have to get around to building the A-B-A "Hustlers", and a string of "Pikers", and an "Oscar".
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This is coming along nicely. So the two cars will be permanently coupled together with a "draw bar" and the couplers on the trucks will stick out at each end?
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Gary S Wrote:This is coming along nicely. So the two cars will be permanently coupled together with a "draw bar" and the couplers on the trucks will stick out at each end?
Yeah - as long as the 'screws" hold hehehehe
but I'll have to put a swivel in the draw bar for my 48" curves
but yes - permanently coupled
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ngauger Wrote:They've RUSTED!!!! They're ALL Brown!!!!!
That's strange, I didn't know "wood planks"
rusted!!! :?: :?: :?:
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ngauger Wrote:the base coat is ON!!!!!!!
You fooled me! :oops:
A swivel in the drawbar :?: as short as those cars are, if a drawbar was the length of what couplers would be you shouldn't need a swivel.......especially on 48" radius.. I'm :? :?
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Whoa! what did you do to those trucks!?
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That's what I was jest wonderin' as well.
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it's "Stone" craft paint - makes it look like it's dirty "beat up" gray
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"Stone" craft paint.......I just have to remember that this is G scale.
One of the interesting, yet difficult things here is that there hasn't been a whole lot of "the usual" shown in G scale............a G scale grain of sand, is a Z scale mountain.
Weathering, and detailing is going to be very interesting, done in so large a scale. This may prove to be one of the most enlightening projects in the challenge.
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