Re: C&S RPO 11: Linn Moedinger’s Shapeways Print in Sn3 and Hon3
Posted by Jim Courtney on Sep 29, 2018; 5:05am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-RPO-11-Linn-Moedinger-s-Shapeways-Print-in-Sn3-and-Hon3-tp12427p12428.html
My wife and I are seriously considering moving back to Central Texas in a couple of years, to be closer to family in our dotage. If so, it will likely be a small house or condo, perhaps in a retirement community with other old fossils. I doubt that I will ever have room for a Sn3 layout. Jeff's work has inspired me to take another look at HOn3 as an alternative.
A few months back I noticed on Shapeways Linn's HOn3 print of C&S RPO 11 (the offset baggage door, toward the baggage end of the car makes the print have to be number 11 -- Ken Martin taught us that the baggage doors of RPOs 10 and 12 were centered on the car side).
Linn's Shapeway' shop is located here: https://www.shapeways.com/shops/narrow-gage-unlimited
Out of curiosity I ordered both the RPO and the Business Car 911 in HOn3. Both are exquisite prints of unique C&S cars that will never show up as brass imports or injection molded kits. Keith somehow convinced Linn to scale the RPO print up to S scale so he could add this unique C&S head end car to this Leadville roster.
Neither car body comes with a floor, tho' Linn has promised those in the future.
I finally found a source for Bestine so that I can safely soak the cars to remove the printing wax residue and then prime them. I had a bad experience using acetone on Keith's Shapeways window parts, with distortion of the parts, kinda like something in Edvard Munch's The Scream.
Photos of the HOn3 body to follow, soon I hope.
In the mean time, Keith and I could use all the photos of RPO 11 that we can find (photos of 10 and 12 will be helpful, too).
Here is what I've got:
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/42462/rv/singleitem/rec/17
In Grandt's Narrow Gauge Pictorial Note off set baggage door.
Lad Arend photo in Dorman Collection. Note centered baggage door.
We could use all the photos for details we can get. Chris, can you help us here??
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-RPO-11-Linn-Moedinger-s-Shapeways-Print-in-Sn3-and-Hon3-tp12427p12428.html
My wife and I are seriously considering moving back to Central Texas in a couple of years, to be closer to family in our dotage. If so, it will likely be a small house or condo, perhaps in a retirement community with other old fossils. I doubt that I will ever have room for a Sn3 layout. Jeff's work has inspired me to take another look at HOn3 as an alternative.
A few months back I noticed on Shapeways Linn's HOn3 print of C&S RPO 11 (the offset baggage door, toward the baggage end of the car makes the print have to be number 11 -- Ken Martin taught us that the baggage doors of RPOs 10 and 12 were centered on the car side).
Linn's Shapeway' shop is located here: https://www.shapeways.com/shops/narrow-gage-unlimited
Out of curiosity I ordered both the RPO and the Business Car 911 in HOn3. Both are exquisite prints of unique C&S cars that will never show up as brass imports or injection molded kits. Keith somehow convinced Linn to scale the RPO print up to S scale so he could add this unique C&S head end car to this Leadville roster.
Neither car body comes with a floor, tho' Linn has promised those in the future.
I finally found a source for Bestine so that I can safely soak the cars to remove the printing wax residue and then prime them. I had a bad experience using acetone on Keith's Shapeways window parts, with distortion of the parts, kinda like something in Edvard Munch's The Scream.
Photos of the HOn3 body to follow, soon I hope.
In the mean time, Keith and I could use all the photos of RPO 11 that we can find (photos of 10 and 12 will be helpful, too).
Here is what I've got:
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/42462/rv/singleitem/rec/17
In Grandt's Narrow Gauge Pictorial Note off set baggage door.
Lad Arend photo in Dorman Collection. Note centered baggage door.
We could use all the photos for details we can get. Chris, can you help us here??
Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA
Poulsbo, WA
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