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  1. Canute
    Great work as usual. What is E6000 glue? Guess I missed that. And where do you get it?
  2. Canute
    If you want to do barnacles, it should be fine sizes. Not powder, but maybe table salt sizes.
  3. Canute
    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.
  4. Canute
    Ought to put some barnacles on the lower pilings, Denis. Fine train ballast, light gray maybe.
  5. Canute
    Check Klingspor https://www.woodworkingshop.com/product/ls25070/ Been using them for a few years. Cheaper than MicroMark,
  6. Canute
    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.
  7. Canute
    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. 😧
  8. Canute
    Yep, lads, that is what they are. They help to lift the stack gases up over the top of the loco. Keeps the smoke out of the crews eyes, at speed. Some roads here in the US used them, too.
  9. Canute
    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.
  10. Canute
    Fascinating build, Elroy. I'll follow along, too.
  11. Canute
    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.
  12. Canute
    They do like to encase their parts in clear wrap. Nice quick fix, too. Will be following along.
  13. Canute
    WOW, looks like the stuff the bodies of many race cars are made from.
  14. Canute
    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.
  15. Canute
    This will be interesting, making the car look like it's carbon fiber. That will be cool.
  16. Canute
    Alan, nice outline of your "Billy Ruffian" newspaper items.
  17. Canute
    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.
  18. Canute
    Hope your wrist recovers quickly. We do need serviceable mitts to do what we do.
  19. Canute
    Yes, along with Northeastern Scale Lumber, too. https://www.northeasternscalelumber.com/
  20. Canute
    We see some big bears here. They do strongman acts like twisting the bird feeder stanchions into pretzels. I think they're getting ready for their wintertime snoozes and eating anything they can. They are omnivores, remember.
  21. Canute
    Denis, folks who put out bird feeders for our feathered friends end up attracting Da Bears. We have a pretty active black bear crew around here in the mountains.
  22. Canute
    Looks good enough to work, Danny. Most impressive.
  23. Canute
    Quite the gallant ship. Thanks for organizing the history. 👍
  24. Canute
    Neat looking hawk. We've got red-tail hawks up this way, usually loitering up over top of the tree-lines along the meadows, Would not want to be a chipmunk or squirrel around here, with the raptors we have. Or a free range cat or dog.
  25. Canute
    Outstanding work, Yves. 👍 And I second the documentation of your wiring work. I belong to a large model railroad club out here in westerns NC and we have a very substantial electrical setup due to the combination of a digital command and control system for operating our trains, overlaid with a very realistic signalling system. The gentleman who did the lion's share of the signalling system passed away unexpectedly about 2 years ago and didn't do a very good job documenting the work. We have had to scramble at times to keep it operating. A word (or so) to the wise.

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