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OK, I tried to avoid this...

This 3D Printed Banner Carrying Knight needs his banner.... but with magnets in the model's base to make storage and transport on the steel tray easier, he's very easy to bust off at the horse's ankles.

I've done so once already. To prevent a second, I cut a piece of sprue and glued both ends.

Now I need to find a tumbleweed, or burning bush, or whatever they had in the middle east desert, and use it to cover that sprue bit.

Otherwise, I'll have to listen to all the innuendo from my gaming friends...

PS: Work in Progress. still blocking in the main colors.
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BigGRacing said:
Alco, in your opinion, why is this one so expensive for a non DCC locomotive? Is it because it’s a custom paint job or something ?
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Tom, Chris and Gary.

The Utah Belt is a Model Railroader Magazine favorite free lance railroad. Eric has sort of become the mysterious guru of FreeLance railroads. His is the first well known freelance layout that reasonated with MR magazine readers. He is a quiet, non social media person but one of the nicest people if you get to meet him. He constantly updates his railroad and sells off the older equipment that won’t fit his current operating era. His items have become collector items and that is a portion of the reason for the high price.
 
Smudge617 said:
Bit expensive for a non DCC locomotive isn't it?

Thinking about it, it's expensive for a DCC one too, is this perhaps Musuem Quality or a Rivet Counter?
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Eric Brooman is a renown Model Railroader is published in many different publications like Model Railroader etc. He is to some one the best detailers and modelers. He was an Art teacher by trade and I believe he has retired . Anyways you can find many site about him if you key in Utah Belt by Eric Brooman.

He has sold many of his works over the years as far back as 1995 that I remember. His model RR is updated every year or so often to keep with the modern times but in his Utah Belt RR. I would not be surprise if this bid goes over $750....he will send a authenticity info and sometimes an extra car/rolling stock to go with it as an appreciation but always the information of authenticity.

There were a few guys I remember that were members of this forum that actually had some of his SD40s and rolling stock. I tried years ago to get a SD40 but it was to high for me to justify the cost at the time.

I wouldn't buy now either but to each his own.......


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I will say he has immense talent in the art world of model railroading. I love seeing his layout in the magazines, videos and articles about his layout. It is a sight to see. He has many friends that help him with other aspect of his modeling. I am unsure why he chooses to keep his layout in DC but I think it is because he doesn't have the expertise or cares to change what works for him.
 


My 4th concrete project this year. I've been here 28 years and knew all this time the slump pump pit had to be fixed and installed correctly so finally I got around to it today. I took my chipping gun to the old pit and formed out a new one. I poured the bottom yesterday and imbedded some concrete wire in the floor and sides. I only did 3 sides for now because 2 of the under-slab drainpipes come in on one side of the pit. I'll strip the forms in 2 days and then figure out how I'm going form out the one side with the pipes.
George

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ctclibby said:
Pilots face almost the same problem, that is why they skew the plane to the right a small amount just before landing. Get over the center, straighten it out and touch down.
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TODD - I like you now, and am not trying to upset you, but none of us "skew" the plane for landing! There are only two reasons in aviation that a plane is"skewed",
A. The airplane is slipped in order to lose altitude quickly,
B. There is a crosswind and the plane is "crabbing" into the wind while the track to the runway is a straight line resulting in the pilot alining/straightening out the direction of the plane before touchdown. Landing in a "crab" can be rather frightening and is very hard on the landing gear.
Unless the wind is directly on the nose, or tail, the plane is always "skewed" in order to maintain a straight track on the ground.

P.S. I enjoyed your bird class - actually learned something that I had really not thought about!
PRESS ON
 
Sirfoldalot said:
TODD - I like you now, and am not trying to upset you, but none of us "skew" the plane for landing! There are only two reasons in aviation that a plane is"skewed",
A. The airplane is slipped in order to lose altitude quickly,
B. There is a crosswind and the plane is "crabbing" into the wind while the track to the runway is a straight line resulting in the pilot alining/straightening out the direction of the plane before touchdown. Landing in a "crab" can be rather frightening and is very hard on the landing gear.
Unless the wind is directly on the nose, or tail, the plane is always "skewed" in order to maintain a straight track on the ground.

P.S. I enjoyed your bird class - actually learned something that I had really not thought about!
PRESS ON
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Maybe not in the big birds, but the pilots of the single engine Cessna's landing on the grass runways around me skew a lot of the time. I don't think sight has anything to do with it though.
 
Work done. 2 of us in a 4 person department, so it was busy. Got in late to a meeting with a vendor, so we're going to finish up on Wednesday. Had tomorrow scheduled off for the appointment we initially had for mom, so when it got canceled, I decided to see her anyway. Her birthday was last Monday and I didn't see her then, so...

New Cowcatcher magazine was in today's mail.
 


Alcomotive said:
Eric Brooman is a renown Model Railroader is published in many different publications like Model Railroader etc. He is to some one the best detailers and modelers. He was an Art teacher by trade and I believe he has retired . Anyways you can find many site about him if you key in Utah Belt by Eric Brooman.

He has sold many of his works over the years as far back as 1995 that I remember. His model RR is updated every year or so often to keep with the modern times but in his Utah Belt RR. I would not be surprise if this bid goes over $750....he will send a authenticity info and sometimes an extra car/rolling stock to go with it as an appreciation but always the information of authenticity.

There were a few guys I remember that were members of this forum that actually had some of his SD40s and rolling stock. I tried years ago to get a SD40 but it was to high for me to justify the cost at the time.

I wouldn't buy now either but to each his own.......


EDIT:

I will say he has immense talent in the art world of model railroading. I love seeing his layout in the magazines, videos and articles about his layout. It is a sight to see. He has many friends that help him with other aspect of his modeling. I am unsure why he chooses to keep his layout in DC but I think it is because he doesn't have the expertise or cares to change what works for him.
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Thanks Alco and TLOC for the info, and yes I can see the appeal now, and the high price. Fortunately for me it's way outside my price bracket, otherwise..........?
 
I think it's actually a sump pump unless the woke climate changed that. Pumps out a depressed or sunken area.
I did basement water proofing around the Detroit area back in the mid 1970s. We would install a sump pump by knocking a round hole in the basement floor then setting a plastic can down in it about the size of a trash can. Stab a few holes in the sides to let water drain in then set the pump down into it then route the pipes and power cable. Any hole that ya create is going to fill gradually with dirt or sand. Just have to clean it out on occasion.
 
NYC_George said:
My 4th concrete project this year. I've been here 28 years and knew all this time the slump pump pit had to be fixed and installed correctly so finally I got around to it today. I took my chipping gun to the old pit and formed out a new one. I poured the bottom yesterday and imbedded some concrete wire in the floor and sides. I only did 3 sides for now because 2 of the under-slab drainpipes come in on one side of the pit. I'll strip the forms in 2 days and then figure out how I'm going form out the one side with the pipes.
George

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Ok, time for a small puzzle. The winner does NOT win one Eric Brooman's locomotives....

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That ^^^ post makes me think of...
...Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, and a host of others.

So what am I talking about? And what's the connection?
 
After all these years of claiming I never had a great grandfather while I was alive, I find my mother's mother's dad passed when I was 7 months old.

Both of dad's grandfather's were gone as was mom's father's parents. I know the 3 great grandmother's as 2 of them passed after I graduated from High School.

Louis: I will and Thank you. She turned 86.
 


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