What's on your workbench, January 2022?

[Keith Hayes]

Happy New Year from Leadville!

Years ago I built a Banta Silverton Depot as a stand-in for the D&RGW Depot in Leadville. I used the shingles in the kit but was not happy with the look. Today the crew removed all the old shingles and are installing new ones from Wild West to match other structures in the area. What have you all been working on over the holidays?

[South Park]

  This looks more like laydown than tearoff, which leads
me to say that anyone putting shingles down that janky on
my job is going to find themselves fired AND paying for
the tearoff and proper replacement of them !  God gave us
chalk lines for a reason !  

[Keith Hayes]

Espee, Bill thoughtfully lasered in guidelines, but the new shingles didn't exactly match, and my roofer may have been distracted by the view from the roof.

The roof is complete now and I pleased with results. I use Pan Pastels to unify the roof and take the edge off the line work printed on the shingles.

I see the D&RGW sent 375 up the hill today. It must be a break-in run after a trip through the shop in Salida.

[Fred 52]

keith:

I am always amazed by your craftsmanship and your ability to show it with your small employees hard   at work,
or maybe loafing taking in the sights around them,

.Fred C.
Somewhere up Ohio creek.

[Keith Hayes]

Thanks Fred.

I visited the layout yesterday and noted how much better the roof seems to look than the old one--no offense to Bill Banta. I really like the Wild West Shingles and the Pan Pastels give them a nice weathered look. The laser cut paper shingles that came with the kit seemed too fine in retrospect. And in spite of me painting them randomly, they had too consistent a color. Anyway, this project was an improvement to my eye.

So...what is everyone else working on? Or are you all laying low seeing how 2022 will turn out?

Stay healthy!

[Chris Walker]

Here you go Keith.... almost completed today, needs a little tweeking.

[Fred 52]

Hl Everyone;

Now on my work bench/hospital table iiis what I call my "problem child", my old Bachmann  C&S Combine. It's had a hard life. Moving from Missouri to Alabama and back. Now It's become my newest Project. I need to find a baggage door, and also the end beam and railing.
The windows had become dislodged and jammed between the wall and seats. I finally was able to remove the body and extracted the window panes,

Moving ahead, on I looked at the paint. I was thinking that I would need to do a bit of touch up. But then in  the era I am modeling n1929 to 1935 it's faded paint looks just fine.

Fred C.
Somewhere up Ohio Creek.  

[SteveG]

Some 3D SLA printing experiments, in a couple of scales: some "early" Cooke tender shells, ASF bolsters, and 1902 coal and flat frames with the ASF bolsters:



Steve Guty,
Lakeway, Texas

[Fred 52]

SteveG wrote

Some 3D SLA printing experiments, in a couple of scales: some "early" Cooke tender shells, ASF bolsters, and 1902 coal and flat frames with the ASF bolsters:



Steve Guty,
Lakeway, Texas

Steve,
Many thanks for your gift. It has been mounted on the B-mann tender frame. It really makes a big difference and changes that stock B-mann Mogul really needs. Mind you my mogul woulf never pass a 'rivet counters' inspection', But i'm happy with it.
Fred C.

[SteveG]

Glad to help! Scaling the 3D model up to O scale gave me some better insights on the HO versions I'm making for myself.