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    John's Loco Workbench - More Projects Begin...

    The cabsides have been treated to filler and sanded flat plus some added details. The sunshades are useful as the help hide some damage to the top edge of the window opening. A coat of primer later should show up any further areas needing attention but then again, real GP7's are now 70 plus...
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    John's Loco Workbench - More Projects Begin...

    The SD30 is now set aside until I can find my hacksaw to modify the chassis, it's probably in the same place as the steam loco I was working on a few weeks ago which I put safely aside and now can't find it... So, time to tackle that demic Atlas GP7... Managed to get it apart, the bodyshell...
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    John's Loco Workbench - More Projects Begin...

    I have an Atlas SD35 chassis which will fit with a little modification. I should have an SD9 frame/chassis somewhere in my spares boxes if that doesn't work however.
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    John's Loco Workbench - More Projects Begin...

    Now have a frame... ...and a lot of sawdust!
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    Model Railroader subscribers?

    Direclown have now ditched the Great Model Railroads and Model Railroad Planning annual issues as well, these were worth picking up as they were far more interesting than the Model Railroader phamplet. Their content is now being incorporated into the main MR magazine but we shall see how long...
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    John's Loco Workbench - More Projects Begin...

    It's not going to win any awards but the SD30 body is together: Now I have to stitch together the frame to match: It does now have a number though:
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    Human Verification

    Update on the Android access. Cloudflare goes into an eternal loop when in desktop mode, change it to mobile site mode and it does let you in, once in, you can switch back to desktop mode if you wish.
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    Human Verification

    The Cloudflare issue on Android mobile seems to have been fixed this morning. No more eternal loops!
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    Human Verification

    Working well on my workbench PC (Windows 11 and Google Chrome with all the interactive AI crap turned off and excorcised!!!) but trying to access the forum on my Android mobile just now, Cloudflare got stuck in a loop and would not let me in.
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    John's Loco Workbench - More Projects Begin...

    Coats of many colours.... (The front half and back half are not actually attached yet which is why it appears a little wonky...)
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    John's Loco Workbench - More Projects Begin...

    My workbench is looking a bit like the results of a tornado through Harry's Truck & Electric right now... The job lot of loco parts I picked up a few weeks ago yielded two Proto 2000 GP30 shells and the long held ambition to build the SD30 has begun: The Rio Grande shell did not die in vain...
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    John's Loco Workbench - More Projects Begin...

    I found a nice free online graphic for the Eagle: Still need to add car detail decals but all the ones I have are white so will have to wait. I have rescued another victim of bad paint jobs though: Atlas GP7 somewhere underneath the half dozen layers of caked on poster paint. It's a good...
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    John's Loco Workbench - More Projects Begin...

    It's been a rolling stock weekend with a strong Gondola theme, after all, what's the point in restoring, rebuilding and repainting all these locos if they have nothing to haul... First up, three ebay acquisitions, purchased cheaply as seen, all with custom weathering jobs to a very good...
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    Model Railroader subscribers?

    Overseas subscriptions issues basically. Here in the UK we started wondering where our Winter 2025 issue was (at the same time, MR and Trains subscribers were asking the same question) as the paper copies were on what few newsstands that stocked them but nothing on our door mats. Of course we...
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    John's Loco Workbench - More Projects Begin...

    Time is something I don't have at the moment, progress on the Atlas SD40 has at least reached the paint stage though: So I am using what small snippets of time I can find on little projects, such as this boxcar: Some fifteen or twenty years ago I acquired cheaply a big job lot of HO near...
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