04-12-2024, 06:53 PM
A little more to report.
I've received all of my detail parts. I had an issue with the 3-chime horn I bought - the two long horns were bent at about 60 degrees from horizontal. I could try to re-bend them, but I'm thinking they're gonna either snap or have at least two bends in them before I get done. Bowser's going to send me a replacement that should be here early next week.
One of the easy taskings was to insert a third air tank (a single one of the left side of the locomotive). The one I received was gray, so I painted it flat black, and while I was at it, hit the trucks, tanks and fuel tank with matte acrylic.
Flattened the 0.010" wire (just like I did with the larger checkout piece I did last week), and made up two rain gutters and then hit them with a base coat of green with a brush. I'm not happy with the overall length and the base coat of paint, so I'm going to make two more and paint them up (spray paint this time for a base). I tried scribing a placement notch in a extra sacrificial cab I had, but I hasn't happy with how it worked out - so the plan is to put just a smidge of super glue on the back side of it and tack it in place with a bit of tape until the glue sets up.
I also experimented with a bracket for the horn, and I think I now have something that works. I sectioned a plastic wire keeper (see first photo below) by cutting it on a diagonal and it's pretty close to the prototype I showed in the picture. There's also a ledge on my model near the area where I need to mount the horn bracket, so I think I'll take advantage of that to mount the bracket (second photo).
Looks like a nice weekend, so I'm guessing there won't be much progress until we get some rain again.
I've received all of my detail parts. I had an issue with the 3-chime horn I bought - the two long horns were bent at about 60 degrees from horizontal. I could try to re-bend them, but I'm thinking they're gonna either snap or have at least two bends in them before I get done. Bowser's going to send me a replacement that should be here early next week.
One of the easy taskings was to insert a third air tank (a single one of the left side of the locomotive). The one I received was gray, so I painted it flat black, and while I was at it, hit the trucks, tanks and fuel tank with matte acrylic.
Flattened the 0.010" wire (just like I did with the larger checkout piece I did last week), and made up two rain gutters and then hit them with a base coat of green with a brush. I'm not happy with the overall length and the base coat of paint, so I'm going to make two more and paint them up (spray paint this time for a base). I tried scribing a placement notch in a extra sacrificial cab I had, but I hasn't happy with how it worked out - so the plan is to put just a smidge of super glue on the back side of it and tack it in place with a bit of tape until the glue sets up.
I also experimented with a bracket for the horn, and I think I now have something that works. I sectioned a plastic wire keeper (see first photo below) by cutting it on a diagonal and it's pretty close to the prototype I showed in the picture. There's also a ledge on my model near the area where I need to mount the horn bracket, so I think I'll take advantage of that to mount the bracket (second photo).
Looks like a nice weekend, so I'm guessing there won't be much progress until we get some rain again.
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