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    HOn30 Myner Models

    VERY NICE ! great job !!! Here are 2 of mine, one HOn30 build on the TRIX switcher .The cab is a seriously butchered cab from a Swiss electric.... The big Diesel I kind of cheated...it is an Austrian Narrow Gauge Diesel...with US paint/weathering and language skills...in other words she got a...
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    HOn30 Myner Models

    Thanks for the info ! It is too bad that most of the stuff on line is either fro very small engines or British prototype... 3dptrain has some interesting stuff. Some of us have been writing to them trying to find out if they would scale up the SP narrow gauge engine they have....keeping the...
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    HOn30 Myner Models

    Hi guys, Myner Models used to be on SHAPEWAYS and made some GREAT conversion kits for HOn30 based on N scale drives...Unfortunately I can not find them anywhere. so if anyone has one of their Kits, parts etc..like Stacks, Domes, Pilots ,Cabs and would like to part with them..PLEASE let me know...
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    Logging Equipment and Trucks....

    Some asked me to post pictures of the build...so here is the beginning of the boom. On the right side are the parts as I got them from Clever Creek , The Hinge boom and the Tower..... On the left is the modified boom, turned in to a heel boom and the modified tower adapted for the heel boom with...
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    Logging Equipment and Trucks....

    there is some really interesting an crazy stuff out there. that is why I love it......
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    Logging Equipment and Trucks....

    A new Line Loader in the works....this one with a 30 scale ft snorkel.... Have not decided yet if it will be on Tracks, Wheel Chassis or on a Truck Crane Chassis... The upper again a HINZE 57 mix....ESPEWE UB 80 as a base ...cut up ...seriously modified Hinge boom from Clever Creek Build...
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    Logging Equipment and Trucks....

    Just in case someone is interested in the true size of the Super Snorkels....
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    Logging Equipment and Trucks....

    Hi, thanks for your interest and kind words....Here is a line loader with super snorkel...or at least close in length to one....It is one of the first Logging models I build. The grapple is not yet attached since I have not yet decided where exactly the machine will be placed... for reference...
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    Logging Equipment and Trucks....

    Hi, started a small Logging Layout in HOn30 and got a bit sidetracked. I fell in love withg log Loaders, line Loaders Yarders and log Trucks... so I started building away...What I love most, the majority of equipment used is in some way field modified or even shop build...plus the fact that this...
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    3’x4’ or 3 11”x 4’ , what would you do?

    Hi, the second Trackplan on my response is one for a table Top layout in an IKEA Liatorp table.BUT for my use in HOn30 the hight of the boards need to be changed....a bit more work than initially anticipated....
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    3’x4’ or 3 11”x 4’ , what would you do?

    Hi, here are 2 versions of N scale /HOn30 Layouts that may work for you...easily modified to fit your needs: 2X3 ft and the 3X3 ft one..used by me for HOn30 but based on an N scale track plan.
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    What are you buying this Month?

    What a question....love it... to be honest, I started with a bunch of sorting boxes to get my bits and pieces , detail parts organized. Then of course detail parts. anything from Grab Iron to stacks...also a new engine body from Shapeways...Balsa wood dowels for trees....12 mm static...
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    What are you buying this Month?

    What a question....love it... to be honest, I started with a bunch of sorting boxes to get my bits and pieces , detail parts organized. Then of course detail parts. anything from Grab Iron to stacks...also a new engine body from Shapeways...Balsa wood dowels for trees....12 mm static...
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    What advice to make a layout dateless.

    Well...having an Asian Layout section opens the world to you...considerin quite a few Europen and American Prototypes wher sold and used in Asian countries....especially the interesting color schemes....if you look around on Shapeways , there are a few interesting Locomotive bodies available...
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    What advice to make a layout dateless.

    Hi, one solution would be an all nature based layout...no buildings...just very generic countryside.... just a thought best of luck Chris
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    Talk about Shipping Service ...

    looks like it...well...at least they followed instructions...
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    Talk about Shipping Service ...

    Try HERMOSA BEACH to REDONDO....next to each other on the Cali beach...actually one can not see where one ends the other begins.... letters go to Simi Valley to a sorting center and the back to the respective post office....go figure...packages may end up in San Bernardion..... I gave up...
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    Talk about Shipping Service ...

    Join the club...I bought an item on E Bay from a US shop in the North West....shipped through the E bay system.....after an extensive tour of the Western US, the item landed finally in Los Angeles...and one would assume that it will go on a plane to Germany from there...but NO...it went to New...
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    N Scale - Micro-Trains -or similar-, EMD SW1500

    Hi guys... well i got lucky. I found an old con cor center cab.. A Japanese prototype....but with Santa Fe Markings...but perfect in length and Truck spacing. Now off to the " shops"..... Thanks again for all your help and support. Chris
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    N Scale - Micro-Trains -or similar-, EMD SW1500

    Thanks, that helps quite a bit !




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