IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
Good afternoon Shop Dwellers! 80*F, sunny & calm in my little Maryland town.
Thanks everybody for the "likes" and/or kind comments on my photo of the new Athearn C-26 cabeese -
Chet, Louis, Phil, Tom, Garry, Sherrell, Lee, Joe/Boris - plus anybody whose comment I might have failed to notice.
Hughie, condolences on the loss of another BIL!
Joe, that's quite a canopy of catenary wires over that Reading interurban in your photo, I wonder if anybody has ever modeled something like that - I can't comprehend maintaining such a mess, let alone building it!
I also ordered an undecorated car as well several months ago when their first run of B&O I-18's were all sold out, but that one is still in the box unassembled. I'll probably end up painting it in the newer solid Enchantment Blue scheme like the C-26's...
I'm in the middle of trying to install a so-called "rock plow" to the pilot of one of my GP40's. These were used on all of the B&O's and C&O's later-delivered EMD hood units and are used only by those roads. The only add-on detail version available is a Cal-Scale white metal casting, which is a major PITA because it has to be grinded-down to fit over the coupler pocket and [on the bottom] to clear the track. So that's where I'm headed back to now, hoping to get this thing done before suppertime. Toodles!
Thanks everybody for the "likes" and/or kind comments on my photo of the new Athearn C-26 cabeese -
Chet, Louis, Phil, Tom, Garry, Sherrell, Lee, Joe/Boris - plus anybody whose comment I might have failed to notice.
Hughie, condolences on the loss of another BIL!
Joe, that's quite a canopy of catenary wires over that Reading interurban in your photo, I wonder if anybody has ever modeled something like that - I can't comprehend maintaining such a mess, let alone building it!
Ok, here is the factory-painted one:Ken: Those two Genesis Cabins look great. Did you post a photo of the Tangents?
I also ordered an undecorated car as well several months ago when their first run of B&O I-18's were all sold out, but that one is still in the box unassembled. I'll probably end up painting it in the newer solid Enchantment Blue scheme like the C-26's...
I'm in the middle of trying to install a so-called "rock plow" to the pilot of one of my GP40's. These were used on all of the B&O's and C&O's later-delivered EMD hood units and are used only by those roads. The only add-on detail version available is a Cal-Scale white metal casting, which is a major PITA because it has to be grinded-down to fit over the coupler pocket and [on the bottom] to clear the track. So that's where I'm headed back to now, hoping to get this thing done before suppertime. Toodles!