Weekly Photo Fun - Nov. 6th - Nov. 12th, 2015

[Schraddel]

"nice young men in their clean white coats, arrived to take me away".

You were taken into the Irrenanstalt?

Otherwise your workmanship:
"Seventhousandfivehundred" indivudual shingles, WOW!!!

Lutz

[Mike Kieran]

Between the shingles and the sailing ship rigging, I believe that it's safe to say you have a level of patience and focus that I couldn't even begin to comprehend.

[bdw9535]

Pete,

Outstanding workmanship

Bruce

[Sumpter250]

Putting things into perspective: It has only taken me Sixty-seven years of modelbuilding to get to this level.
Yeah, I turn 72 on Saturday 11/14, I was about hock: FIVE hock: , when I built my first kit, and that was a "Strombecker" kit. Signature line 2, applies

And.....Yeah, I have made more than enough mistakes in the process. Signature line 1, applies

[Sumpter250]

"nice young men in their clean white coats, arrived to take me away".

You were taken into the Irrenanstalt?
Otherwise your workmanship:
"Seventhousandfivehundred" indivudual shingles, WOW!!!
Lutz

:oops: :oops: I just realized hock: I used the "grand total" of all the individual shingles I have ever "applied". that house has a "few less"
"You were taken into the Irrenanstalt? " No....I was referring to the Tom Lehrer song "And they're coming to take me away",
because the effort of using individual shingles for all my "wood shingled" structures, sounds a bit "loopy".
Hand forming the shackles and shackle pins for my rigging, out of a single strand of picture hanging wire? yeah, that too sounds a bit " off my rocker, and over the edge ". That said, if I am going to build a model, and it is possible to create the actual details in the process, I'll try to do it. I have found a way to make very realistic looking eye splices, in the sewing thread I use for the running rigging, and reasonable facsimile's of seized eyes in the Surgical Silk I use for the standing rigging......simply because seizing and splicing, are how the prototype is done.
I still have no desire to get into "Fly Tying".

[faraway]

Something much less spectacular

The Athearn RTR GP40-2 got a Genesis heart implanted today. The Athearn GP60 RTR motor replacement kit fits fine with some minor milling.

[postman]

Something much less spectacular

The Athearn RTR GP40-2 got a Genesis heart implanted today. The Athearn GP60 RTR motor replacement kit fits fine with some minor milling.

Great photo and great work on the motor change. Where did you get the motor replacement?

[faraway]

..... Where did you get the motor replacement?

Thanks for the friendly comment. I got the replacement motor from an US eBay seller. It is Athearn part #G63839. They are intended as upgrade kits for the RTR SD40 but fit with little milling in most similar RTR engines. http://www.athearn.com/Products/Default....=ATHG63839
The problem is the virtually non existing Athearn quality control. Out of two motors is one noisy in one direction. An even more nasty problem if you life on other side of the great pond and sending back and waiting for a replacement would take months and cost a fortune

Busy this morning too

[postman]

..... Where did you get the motor replacement?

Thanks for the friendly comment. I got the replacement motor from an US eBay seller. It is Athearn part #G63839. They are intended as upgrade kits for the RTR SD40 but fit with little milling in most similar RTR engines. http://www.athearn.com/Products/Default....=ATHG63839
The problem is the virtually non existing Athearn quality control. Out of two motors is one noisy in one direction. An even more nasty problem if you life on other side of the great pond and sending back and waiting for a replacement would take months and cost a fortune

Busy this morning too

I know the feel because I´m European. Buying model railroad stuff in the US is expensive when you´ve to pay import taxes. Have a Bachmann GP38-2 that needs a motor change .