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Great thread, thanks. I have a pickling pot enroute. I have a question, though. How do you handle small brass PE bits. Once cut from their thin frets, is the copper tongs fine enough to pick up thin disks used to make up pulley sheaves. Or should you pour everything off through a sieve and put the whole thing into a baking soda bath. What metal should be used for the sieve?
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Bill, his kits all make up into gems. Yours looks great. 👍 One of my local club members has a number of those FSM kits on his layout. He just had a visit from Model Railroader (MR) magazine doing a photo spread. It may show up in 2-3 years, the way MR puts layouts into print.
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Like Lou says, look for fairly fine grained track ballast. I saw a model of a New England area pier a few weeks back. The builder said he used a light grey ballast, forgot the scale, but it was pretty fine. Top parts he left gray, the bottom two thirds were algae colored (wet, green shade). My camera died or I'd show you some pictures.
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Check Klingspor https://www.woodworkingshop.com/product/ls25070/ Been using them for a few years. Cheaper than MicroMark,
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Jan is correct. Light cars should trail the loco and usually are limited to pretty low speeds. The Germans hauled AAA cars, but I seem to remember they were behind the loco. Looked at a lot of WWII gun camera film from my F-4 unit in Germany way back when. They flew P-47s during the war and shot up a lot of stuff. Winter weather in the Eifel being what it was, we had a lot of non flying days to watch historical movies. A good shoot em up was always fun.
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Lou, I was out of town, so didn't have my loco cyclopedia to refer to. No misstating of info to add any confusion, by pulling an answer out without checking. I've been off, hobnobbing with other prototype railroad modelers. And a fine time was had by all. Learned a little about improving my airbrushing techniques. 😁 Craig, lots of work prepping the house. Local chore is blowing the leaves off the driveway. Threats of snow with that crud underneath should be avoided. Driveway will be as slick as owl poop with leaves and snow on it. 😧
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The side rods connect the drivers to the main drive wheel, which is the one driver the main rod( E13) connects to, via the main crank pin (F42). The valve gear is the linkage above the main rod, what was in your step 19. It adjusts the steam admitted to the cylinders to generate tractive effort. I'm away from my steam cyclopedia, so I can't fill in a lot about the stuff you're working on. Like the paint scheme. I have a BH-50, I think, but it's in HO scale and uses the black and red scheme.
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How are you making out acquiring the air group? I see Free Time, over here north of Atlanta Georgia, has some sets, but I'll bet the shipping would be a deal-breaker.
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They do like to encase their parts in clear wrap. Nice quick fix, too. Will be following along.
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Enzo Ferrari by CDW - Tamiya - 1:12 Scale - PLASTIC
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Yep, there is/was an International Space Station (ISS) styrene model. Short run kit, ill fitting parts. I have one but put it on hold when I moved and haven't unearthed from the bottom of the stash. There was an aftermarket PE set, too. It's the original configuration, so many newer modules aren't attached. Another version is a paper model: https://axm61.wordpress.com/axm-iss-model/ This one appears to be pretty current with numerous add ons. Need to search on several pages for all the mods that have been made to the ISS.
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Enzo Ferrari by CDW - Tamiya - 1:12 Scale - PLASTIC
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Enzo Ferrari by CDW - Tamiya - 1:12 Scale - PLASTIC
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
We get most of those, too. And we have some elk west of us in higher elevations. No cougars, just bobcats. Be very careful walking in our woods.
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