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What's on Your Workbench - April 2021
All the sudden it's a new month! I hope you have been busy making progress. Let's see the latest from your workbench and layout!
Eric
Eric Hansmann
Contributing Editor, Model Railroad Hobbyist
Follow along with my railroad modeling:
http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/
A customer has ordered a car, now what??
Continuation of the thread I started regarding building jobs around customers needs. In this part I will be talking about once a car is ordered how does the crew know where to actually spot it.
Not every customer served everyday
Taking it on the road, again
Good morning all,
Last week, a group of modular minded modelers gathered for a 3 day "invitational" event in SE Indiana. Pictures and video link to follow.
Thanks in advance for looking!
Tim Moran Akron, OH
Older Postings
This was posted recently on another forum, in a discussion I had brought back to life,.....
100+ Car Train on my Club Layout!
I recently dug out this video of a 100+ car train my friend and I made on the Adirondack and Lake Champlain to celebrate 100 subscribers on YouTube. Enjoy!
What's on Your Workbench - March 2021
We March forward into a new month! Let's see the latest from your workbench and layout!.
Eric
Eric Hansmann
Contributing Editor, Model Railroad Hobbyist
Follow along with my railroad modeling:
http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/
Odd Responses to Posts
I have noticed a very odd trend here and in many other forms of online forums.
Poster asks a specific and direct technical question = very little response
Poster asks a vague question with more of an opinion base = al lot of response, and lot of argument.
Interesting phenomenon in the internet age.
What do I take from this. .. If you have a technical question about modeling insert something subjective.
(Example)
3-D printed motorcar shell
Hello everyone!
I am modeling the Missouri & Arkansas railroad and I would like to have an ACF Motorailer but of course none are available and my scratch building skills are not good enough. I wonder if it would be possible to 3-D print a shell that could fit a existing powered unit. The Bachmann doodlebug is very close dimensionally and this is what I had in mind for the power unit for the shell. Have any of you had any experience with something like this? Is there a 3-D printer out there that you have worked with?
"Dues paid" Model Rail certificate
It's been mentioned a time or two, that "you've paid your dues" as a railroad modeler if you've tackled some project, even if it kicked your asterisk to the curb without breaking a sweat. Two of these, I've had personal experience with, and I'm wondering what other lost cause I might have tried in the past to gain the coveted "Hat Trick".
My "Don Quixote" list so far includes:
The Front Range / McKean 60' Centerbeam Flat Car kit, an ongoing grind...
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