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Nice kit! And thank you regarding paint recipes. i use masters touch artist paints and have had good results when painting cars and trucks 1900-1930’s. Just love those style of automoblies. sometimes I’ll use hobby paints but for the money and ease of use with both brush and airbrush I find the artist colors do quite well for me anyway. Again thanks for info on the “recipes”. I’ll look them up and see what I can do too.

Finished the Chesapeake 17 Kayak this morning. i don’t know if anyone else has built this but i had a hard time with the buckles and actually gave up and used some buckles I had made for me for my 1/8 th scale stagecoach. Makes it look a little like a Santa Clause Kayak but hey I have buckles on the straps for the hatches.🤣🤣 Here are some pictures of the finished model.

Sorry everyone I've been busy building and not taking photos of what I've done. I have painted the hull and finish the "top" part and now gluing it all together. Three glue ups (according to the directions) and I have the last part (side) glued up now. Also, have the paddle finished. Won't be long now and it will be completed. A few touch ups after it's all done but the build has been going together quite well.

I just came across your build, I WILL be watching your progress!! I had to go to Occre website to see the model, holy cow !! this thing is huge!! I also seen that they are limited edition, and price ( too steep for me). So I'll be building this one through your eyes and hands. You do great work and this one will be a masterpiece when completed in my eyes.

Little further along this afternoon. Tomorrow carve the end blocks and attach them and then see how much time I have maybe start the top.

Well I had a little time today so I thought I would start on my next project. Not too far along but it’s a start.

I’ll be turning mainly wood for miniature furniture and ship parts but I will also be turning brass and aluminum for scale horse drawn vehicle parts and other project parts. A 4 jaw chuck independent would be for turning square stock (wood) for table legs etc. Dial indicator is a must I would think with a 4 jaw chuck independent. I know I could use and 4 jaw chuck (like 3 jaw) but I believe in the long run an independent chuck is the way to go if I decide to do more turning that needs to be real accurate measurements. I’ve looked online and see many mods but to do them I would also need a mill and I would like to get one but not right away. I see that taig has an attachment for the lathe to use as a mill (which I’ll probably get for very light work) but don’t really know how good that attachment would be for heavy milling like some of the mods I’ve seen people do. I know the basics of turning on a lathe, but some of the “tricks of the trade” sorta speak, I don’t know. Examples of the work I do on the lathe

Any other mods that you can think of that I should or could do to my Taig lathe ? Other than buy more tooling and chucks and such 😆.

I agree with you on leaving it alone for now. You can always go back and add whatever detail or distant "trees" to the background if need. Buildings will hide a lot of the "horizon" and the viewer will notice more of the buildings and other details than what is actually behind the buildings. This is my background with buildings in front. You don't see much of the "horizon" or for that matter the "sponge trees" peeking through the foreground trees and buildings. With a fall scene it is really hard to make it look convincing with painted trees in the background. I commend you on trying to create a "real scene" from the past. Hands down it is a challenge. What ever you do, if you like it, that's really that all that matters.

Everything looks great!! Do have a question, are you planning on doing any detail on the painted hills or leave them as distant hills, mountains. A little sponge painting would make it look like there are some vegetation but also not sure if that would be prototypical for the time period you're shooting for. It looks great the way it is, I was just wondering. Put it this way, it's better than my background on my switching layout. Mine is just a hazy sky no detail. You did a nice job on the clouds and don't worry about steaks or any of that. More foreground details, buildings, etc. and people will be more interested in what is going on in front and not even really notice the backdrop. Keep it coming, the scenery in my mind looks great !!!

I have some questions, Does anyone have a taig lathe? Did you use the motor mounting bracket or did you change it out for a large hinge? If you are using a hinge, would you think there is any undo stress to the motor or the lathe headstock by using a hinge for mounting the motor and belt tension? Something I've always done from the start is when I'm done with the lathe, I will remove the belt, that way I feel any motor weight on it will not stretch the belt. My not have to but I do. What other modifications have you done to your lathe? This goes for any mini lathe that would make the lathe perform better. Example: DRO or other type of accurate measuring. (One of the things I'm working on getting, is a 4 jaw independent chuck). Lastly, what have you made with your Taig lathe? Miniature parts for ships, parts for other projects, etc. Thank you for any advise on the above questions. Would really be interested in knowing about the hinge motor mount. I did this with mine and used a very heavy duty brass hinge ( 1/4" thick with about a 3/16 pin). Also, makes moving the belt to a different pulley easier.

From the looks of the parts it’s going to be a lot of time at the spray booth as well. Looking forward to the progress as you build this one!!

Looking great!! Love DCC and sound locomotives!! Keep up the great work!!

Very very nice!! Excellent job!!

I see I could of used this cool tool when I was building the spindle chair I did a while back.

Looks like it's coming along really well. Your turnout controls, their not tortoise switch machines, so what brand are they? Are they servos? Seen them but never used them. I use Caboose Industries manual switch stand for my switching layout. Backdrop looks great too. Bet you can't wait to get trains running 🙂. Keep up the great work and look forward to more!!

Doctors phaeton piano box buggy this is what you see most of the time people driving with there horses today. Amish buggy this is what you see the Amish driving in the USA most of the time.

I never posted finished pictures of my stagecoach.

Thought I would share a couple things I’ve made on my taig lathe. Little things.

The term "doctor's buggy" was first applied to a type of doctor's phaeton . A phaeton is a lightweight, four-wheeled carriage, often designed to be owner-driven. Here's how the name came about: Distinctive Top: The term "doctor's buggy" specifically referred to a doctor's phaeton that featured a unique top, designed by a physician named Dr. Yandell in Louisville, Kentucky.

Yeah that’s what I was asking don’t know why I said 3D. Anyway thank you for clarifying that for me.

Thanks for all the information. One of my past jobs (for 10 years) I was operating a laser and a waterjet to cut out metal parts. We would import the customers project into a computer program (sigmanest) and then send it to either machine and run the program. One down fall of this job is that only one person really knew G code and how to fix any problems with the machines. So as for knowing G code or M code, nope not much. So a program and manual is definitely a must and tech support a plus as well. For what I would like to do - miniature work as well as larger items (gifts, signs, etc.) a larger cnc router that can still do the fine delicate work would be great. As for space (someone mentioned that) I have a wood shop and I can easily find a spot for it and hook it up to air and my dust collection system. Noise would not be a problem either because the shop is in a separate building from the house. Bonus, the shop building is actually considered commercial property so even starting a business with the cnc router would have no affect (noise) to the other surrounding area just because that building is a commercial building. It really all boils down to dollars and cents. How much am I wanting to spend on a machine that to start would be a hobby machine and then maybe later put to work making some money with it. To me, start small and then upgrade. But then again, my thinking has always been buy the best you can for the project or projects that you have to do. I've bought many woodworking machines due to the fact I needed them to complete a customers job and then I had the machine to continue making me money with that particular machine added to my shop of tools. Hope that all made since. Anyway, thank you for your ideas, comments, etc. and I just need to take a good hard look at what I want to do with a particular machine and is it worth buying a rather expensive "tool" to just do hobby stuff at this time. With all the comments and suggestions I'm leaning more towards a cnc router just because of the bigger projects I might want to do down the road with the machine. Thanks again.

Hope you still like the cat, and hopefully you can get it all back together without to much trouble. I have dogs and they can do some damage as well if they get ruff housing around. Luckily, nothing has broken yet. Look forward to seeing it all repaired and in another post you told me you did some laser cutting for this model. Makes me wonder if I should have a laser for my miniatures. Still on the fence on that one. Like to have one or a cnc router, but $$$ right now is tight so both will have to wait awhile.

Do you have the have the 3D option on your router? I've looked at these for years and thought I could do so much with one but never pulled the trigger. Then lasers came out and thought that would be cool to have too. I'm up in the air with what I want to do. I've been building my miniatures with the tools I have and just thought a laser or like you said a cnc router would be cool to do some of the things I can't really do well by hand. Like carve the intricate details on some miniatures that I would like to build. Examples: These are all 1/12 scale

I’ve thought of a cnc router also mainly because my profession is woodworking and I could use it there also. But I always see kits that have been laser cut so I just figure the laser was the better way to go. Thank you all for your input more I have allot of thinking and questioning myself is it worth having either a laser or a cnc router at this time.