I think I've gone a little over-board in my retaining wall plan. I started off to make just ten castings. Well, I decided what's the harm with doing just one more? Now I have nineteen castings with number twenty in the mold!
Since I haven't had much time the last couple of weeks and I have had even less money, I have been putting together some Jordan Models vehicles that have been setting on the shelf in unopened boxes. Man are they tedious little things. I got to practice using some very bad language. This week's work was a Mack Chain Drive Dump truck. I took several photos both to put up here, and to see all those little areas that need to be touched up (like the wheels.....). This model is not quite up to my standards yet but is getting there.
While assembling the truck, I was putting on the headlights, with my Magnifyer on so I could actually see the durned thing when "ping" it shot out of the tweezers like a speeding bullet. Spent about 2 hours looking for it...... Someday when I am gone and the layout is being demolished someone with good eyesight will see this little tiny 1920's headlight hanging in an HO tree somewhere close by and say, "hmmm"???
Here's some eye candy for the steam lovers out there. It's an Athearn Genesis 4-6-2 light pacific. It never has run without breaking something. First it was the main drive gear. I replaced that after waiting almost a year for the part. The next thing that broke was one of the drive wheel bearing seats. That can't be fixed without replacing the frame and that ain't happening. It's destined to become a static display in a park on my layout. Too bad it's such a piece of junk. It looks beautiful.
Jeffrey, I think I saw a rather large table filled with those Pacific models in David Harrison's photos of the Athearn Yard Sale over on the Atlas Forum. They were being sold "for parts only" - not guaranteed to run.
Right you are. I've heard nothing but bad things about this particular model and the compant that made it. I don't remember their name right now, but it starts with an S.