I noticed that with an American 4-8-4, the lighting just did its thing no matter what, and the decoder ran the motor only.
What are you buying this Month?
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I'm experienced with FDM 3D printing, but this is my first journey into resin printing. I used my first 3D printer in college, almost 20 years ago. Back then, we still had a paper-cutter 3D printer where it gave you a ton of little slices that you had to stick together - ugh. I got back into it about 8 years ago, and went with FDM because I needed large components. Now that I'm doing a lot of tiny things, for modeling, I'm finding that I want that quality that resin gives you.
Once I pay back my newest toys, my next step will be to get into resin casting. I didn't realize how involved that was (mainly having to buy vacuum and pressure equipment).
I knew no one who had the tools to build the brass models that MRR magazine would have the plans for. Art Curren would write article after article how to kit bash the structures from Walthers but my LHS didn’t carry those kits. They had to be ordered but would show up 10 days to 2 weeks late. The shops that are still around have inventories, rare waiting if u need something. Most structures were built with wood and not ready to build kits. Most Campbell kits were beyond most people’s abilities or available time.
No give me today in model railroading
106 E. Center St.
Rogersville, MO 65742
Have a fun safe trip
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boogietrain94
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AMENAbsolutely nothing ! Because I run out of money for little trains.
trailrider
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Not doing much on my layout lately. But my wife found some old issues of Model Railroader and Model Trains magazines from 1955 and '56 for sale in an antique shop! One article described how to scratch build a Burlington Zephyr, using brass or nickel silver. I don't recall when, but there was a similar article later with the layout for the nose of the shovel nose Zephyr. I used that as a template to make #9908, the last shovelnose, which had the A-1-A power truck. I made the body from styrene, rather than metal, as it was easier to form. The rest of the car was made from Blue Box Athearn streamlined combine, and the power truck from half of an Athearn PA-1 diesel.
The articles in those magazines are really fascinating, as are ads for kits, power packs and other things that we don't see nowadays, especially the prices! You could get some motor improvements to upgrade a Globe F-7. Just $24.95. A boxcar kit was around $3.95. Today such things will cost ten times that, just for DC in HO.
Those were the days...
The articles in those magazines are really fascinating, as are ads for kits, power packs and other things that we don't see nowadays, especially the prices! You could get some motor improvements to upgrade a Globe F-7. Just $24.95. A boxcar kit was around $3.95. Today such things will cost ten times that, just for DC in HO.
Those were the days...
Kusojiji
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Along with the x-ray vision glasses?
J_Mangle
Professional Engineer, Amateur Railroader
I'm gonna need everyone to be real cool and not tell my wife. This is my confession.
She recently brought our daughter into the world, which was an excuse to get back into modeling. Lot of fond memories of playing with my G scale - the ability to build a little world on the floor was so much fun. I almost never used my dad's existing layouts because it was just a case of "watch things so in circles.) I've been volunteering at museums, but had left my tiny trains in storage. This also meant we bought another apartment in our building - the one across the hall - because ours was too small for 3 people. That meant that my 3D printer came out of storage. And, because it was a rough pregnancy, I wasn't allowed to leave the complex - so I did a lot of 3D printing.
Now to the crux of it. I've been printing so much, that I bought:
On the train side, I picked up:
The deus ex machina is my day job. I work in nuclear power, and my company uses 3D scanners that cost as much as a base model Corvette. They don't like to let them go into the field. If I use mine at a site, I'm charging my company for the rental. Same with the 3D printers. That would pay for everything in a day, so fingers crossed.
Next step - move my LLC into my new state of residence so I'm not paying sales tax on models I purchase to fix and sell, only to then charge tax again when I sell it. That takes a MASSIVE cut into margins. New Orleans has 10% sales tax, ugh. But I'm gonna consult a CPA before I walk into that minefield.
Pics are the otherwise very new looking Connie and its busted trucks on the tender and the "temporarily out of stock" parts from Bachmann. I doubt they'd be chill enough to send me the CAD files, but I may still reach out to them.
She recently brought our daughter into the world, which was an excuse to get back into modeling. Lot of fond memories of playing with my G scale - the ability to build a little world on the floor was so much fun. I almost never used my dad's existing layouts because it was just a case of "watch things so in circles.) I've been volunteering at museums, but had left my tiny trains in storage. This also meant we bought another apartment in our building - the one across the hall - because ours was too small for 3 people. That meant that my 3D printer came out of storage. And, because it was a rough pregnancy, I wasn't allowed to leave the complex - so I did a lot of 3D printing.
Now to the crux of it. I've been printing so much, that I bought:
- A second commercial 3D printer (Same model as my existing one, Ultimaker 3-extended, which is still top of the line quality, but the new one was used so it was like 20% of the initial cost)
- A new resin 3D printer (first time resin printing)
- A laser engraver (very cheap model, just kinda wanted to try something new, maybe make things to donate to my railroad museum gift shop to sell)
- A 3D scanner, which I can never tell the wife the price of (still amazed I did this...) A Creality CR-Scan Otter, so my excuse if she tried to shank me over buying it was that I am going to 3D scan the baby so the family can all get a 3D printed baby statue for Christmas.
- A new laptop, because even my engineering computers couldn't support the scanner. (Can't complain about buying a nice one for once - I buy the cheapest refurbished laptops I can and they never seem to die, even when running heavy CAD programs, CFD, and FEA analysis. One of them I literally put into a micro-fridge when I use it and have bulkhead fittings to pass the cables inside.)
On the train side, I picked up:
- A vintage LGB 2010D (the stereotypical LGB 0-4-0) cheap because it was missing parts. (Which I'm going to 3D print replacements.) I respect the LGB quality, but foreign trains are like blondes, they may be pretty, but they aren't my preference for beauty.
- A new-in-box old-stock Bachmann 2-4-2, also cheap because it had some cosmetic damage from the plasticizers in the coal load dissolving the Styrofoam and becoming chemically one entity. (I do a lot of chemical work with plastics, so I think I'll be able to fix it as-is, and if not, I'll just make a new coal load out of plastic or a more realistic one made of real coal. I may even print a new stack and make it into a custom wood-burner.)
- A very new looking (from the photos) Bachmann industrial 2-8-0 Connie that must have been dropped because the tender trucks are basically shattered. The parts are listed as "temporarily out of stock" from Bachmann, but seeing as I doubt they've made any since 2009.... But I plan on just 3D scanning a good set of trucks or CAD modeling them from scratch and 3D printing them.
The deus ex machina is my day job. I work in nuclear power, and my company uses 3D scanners that cost as much as a base model Corvette. They don't like to let them go into the field. If I use mine at a site, I'm charging my company for the rental. Same with the 3D printers. That would pay for everything in a day, so fingers crossed.
Next step - move my LLC into my new state of residence so I'm not paying sales tax on models I purchase to fix and sell, only to then charge tax again when I sell it. That takes a MASSIVE cut into margins. New Orleans has 10% sales tax, ugh. But I'm gonna consult a CPA before I walk into that minefield.
Pics are the otherwise very new looking Connie and its busted trucks on the tender and the "temporarily out of stock" parts from Bachmann. I doubt they'd be chill enough to send me the CAD files, but I may still reach out to them.
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GGNInNScale
Granite Gorge and Northern Again
I received 2 dome cars and a coach from Lowell Smith. Alaska RR. Also, a diner is on order. I pull them with a Kato SD70Mac. It takes a while to get the cars, but the workmanship is fabulous.
Kusojiji
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Received an Athearn Consolidation in Great Northern colors. Looks awesome and is currently doing its run in. Runs very nicely and not speedy. Smoke box door a bit crooked, but easy to remove and straighten.
Weighs in at 300 grams, which is surprisingly heavy to me, but the tender seems a bit light. May be adding some weight to it for better conductivity/tracking.
Weighs in at 300 grams, which is surprisingly heavy to me, but the tender seems a bit light. May be adding some weight to it for better conductivity/tracking.
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traiNscale
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i have to say this month i did buy something...
- some ply
- aluminium stuff for a new project ahahahaha
and finally last friday after @troyphoto talked about 3D printers, i decided to sell my Saturn 4 Ultra and buy the newer version Saturn 4Ultra 16k with built in Heatvat (thats the reason for me).
i hate myself xD
- some ply
- aluminium stuff for a new project ahahahaha
and finally last friday after @troyphoto talked about 3D printers, i decided to sell my Saturn 4 Ultra and buy the newer version Saturn 4Ultra 16k with built in Heatvat (thats the reason for me).
i hate myself xD
J_Mangle
Professional Engineer, Amateur Railroader
I definitely need to pick your brain. I've got a new Elegoo Mars 5 Ultra 9k sitting in a box by my feet right now. You know, the baby brother to the one you have. I won't have the opportunity to play with it until next week, however.
I'm experienced with FDM 3D printing, but this is my first journey into resin printing. I used my first 3D printer in college, almost 20 years ago. Back then, we still had a paper-cutter 3D printer where it gave you a ton of little slices that you had to stick together - ugh. I got back into it about 8 years ago, and went with FDM because I needed large components. Now that I'm doing a lot of tiny things, for modeling, I'm finding that I want that quality that resin gives you.
Once I pay back my newest toys, my next step will be to get into resin casting. I didn't realize how involved that was (mainly having to buy vacuum and pressure equipment).
TLOC
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Those weren’t the “days”. Limited participation of mainly lone wolf modelers. I remember buying a F-7 but it was Athearn in 1974 my 1st month out of college. It took me weeks to save up for it and it was about $30.00. My 1st job for the 1st 90 days after college only paid $150 a week. I thought I was loaded! When they doubled it 90 days later I thought I was rich. Looking back it felt good but I still had to save up to buy equipment
I knew no one who had the tools to build the brass models that MRR magazine would have the plans for. Art Curren would write article after article how to kit bash the structures from Walthers but my LHS didn’t carry those kits. They had to be ordered but would show up 10 days to 2 weeks late. The shops that are still around have inventories, rare waiting if u need something. Most structures were built with wood and not ready to build kits. Most Campbell kits were beyond most people’s abilities or available time.
No give me today in model railroading
TLOC
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Iron Planet Hobbies is near Branson
106 E. Center St.
Rogersville, MO 65742
Have a fun safe trip
TLOC
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Purchases. Saturday made a 2.5 hour+ trip past the Green Bay Area. Had to stop at Enginehouse Services in Green Bay. A great shop, very well organized with a wonderful inventory. I only needed some paints and that’s what I purchased.
I do have pre-orders for 2 diesels and too many freight cars in though made this month for hopefully Fall 2025 delivery
I do have pre-orders for 2 diesels and too many freight cars in though made this month for hopefully Fall 2025 delivery
Let's not forget the old Ambroid "box of wood pieces" car kits. There are still a lot of people that find laser cut kits to be beyond their abilities.
Canalligator
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Well tomorrow I’ll be buying lumber and hardware for section 6. (Sections 1-5 and 10 are operational.) I hope to finish sections 6-9 by September.
traiNscale
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ahm i did totally forgot this buy xD
came with the mail the other day:
H0 Scale:
came with the mail the other day:
H0 Scale:
Canalligator
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Ah, the R series Macks. Handsome truck, and you still see them around on the roads. When I was a younger adult, you’d still see the B series Macks on the road and around. I have a lot of respect for manufactured goods that live a long time.
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