10-14-2025, 01:53 PM
Haven't heard of Red Ball, Jim. I ran into Clever Models quite by accident. I was thumbing through an old Walthers catalog a few years ago looking for an engine house and saw a section devoted to their products and took a look. I've been hooked ever since. As long as I can print to my inkjet printer, I'm in business. The big plus for me is that you buy the designs and can print as many as you want - in the case of this particular project, I've drawn from 6 different models to pull in details that I'm using, and I've rescaled some other portions of files to produce individual components. When all is said and done, if you don't include glue, cardstock and ink, I paid about $2 for this station.
The marathon production of roof trusses is finally finished to include doing all of the edge work on each of these 30 rafter trusses. Ready for roof construction! I did put the corner details in and added internal reinforcement at the base and at the ceiling level. The sporadic roofline supports will give me something to glue the roof to. I may get to some of that tonight, but the next few days are full with visiting kids and grandkid as well as dear old dad being pulled into a prospective home inspection for my other son. Things should settle down by Monday night.
The marathon production of roof trusses is finally finished to include doing all of the edge work on each of these 30 rafter trusses. Ready for roof construction! I did put the corner details in and added internal reinforcement at the base and at the ceiling level. The sporadic roofline supports will give me something to glue the roof to. I may get to some of that tonight, but the next few days are full with visiting kids and grandkid as well as dear old dad being pulled into a prospective home inspection for my other son. Things should settle down by Monday night.
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