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                                                                                 CHRISTIAN  👣

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Opening of ""work"""on GE 44    to be continued 

Christian

christian.scratch@wanadoo.fr

 1 : 48       S160 under construction. ( used calendars ). 

.............To be continued !!!

Have a good day

Christian

https://modelismemilitaire.blogspot.com/

For  the modelers pleasure................The construction to be continued      (NOTE THAT THIS MACHINE IS FINISHED )

..............Tomorrow 

Christian

https://modelismemilitaire.blogspot.com/ 

Help and advice requested.

I recently bought an MTH NYC Hudson, a real beauty. I plan for it to pull my Morning Express consist of milk, freight and passenger cars. 10 to 12 cars in total all scratch built.

It seems to be in almost new condition visually.  I have not applied power to it yet in that I am totally unfamiliar with MTH electronics so I don’t know if and how it runs.

I would like to know if it is possible to convert this engine to dead rail operation. Battery powered and controlled with a Revolution train engineer. (My other engines run on it.)

I would like to have the lighting, smoke and a sound system work.

Thanks in advance.

Alan THEGALLINE

The first tip (I'll call them) is to obtain as many drawings or pictures of the exact model and road number for the engine you wish to build as you can find. That includes the year desired to model. I learned that while building my first SD70ACE and even more on the MP15AC build. If you look at different versions, you'll never nail down the exact detailing. There are different models, phases of the builds, and then road specific details that the builder does for the order. Some stuff gets changed later on from upgrades. Some engines are involved in crashes or just worn out. When they get rebuilt, they can be upgraded. So looking at pictures from different years of the exact same engine can cause confusion.

 Now a picture is flat. So obviously to make a accurate 3d model, we need another picture or drawing from the top of the engine. When we get several angles and views of each panel on the engine, we can use the known dimensions to help with any unknowns. I have used the published specs for the wheel diameter, overall length, width, etc., to determine what I'm looking to make elsewhere in the photo. You can either blow up the drawing or photos to match the desired scale or, you will have to calculate everything you make. Double check all the calculations to make your life easier.

 The one thing that helps me the most, is that I like the modern era engines. So far the ones I've built, are all made of straight panels at various angles. Not having curves to duplicate makes the builds straight forward and easily repeatable. The cabs do have many angles though. I like to miter the plastic panels together for more gluing surface and that makes things tougher for me. Butt joints are fine and should be re-inforced inside critical areas with hot melt or more plastic pieces.

So blah blah blah, I'm sounding like I know it all. I hope others can add anything going forward on this post to help any newcomers build models here. G scale does not have many new releases very often. Almost every operator I talk with, has at least one engine they desire that's not been offered yet. So I hope that they will try a build to gain experience. It opens a new set of eyes, to look at the rest of the hobby all over again.

 I need to start transferring picture downloads here so I'll be back!

I wanted to share a project I am working on with a friend. We are creating a 3d printed shell of the iconic Black Diamond to fit onto an existing Aristocraft 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive. We hope to have it running soon!

Greetings from down under.

Long time lurker, first time poster! 

I’ve recently purchased “Tods mods” awesome Vline B class loco from another enthusiast. A project I’ve always wanted to complete but now I’ve managed to obtain this loco I’ll be going ahead and detailing this one up and giving it the TLC it needs (and it needs some!)

Here’s the build thread from Tod back in the day. 
 

This loco holds significance in my life as it use to operate up and down the local line via our local station at Wallan east on the Seymour line when I was a kid growing up and we use to take this service into to Melbourne for a day out. 

On the to do list: 

• Full repaint/respray in Tangerine livery of the 80s/90s
• Full detailing of loco to look more correct to period specs (cow catchers, horns , roof detail, paneling, Grills etc etc)
• Re wiring of motors and lighting and installation of Blunami and speaker set up.
• Installing cabs at both ends of loco

If anyone has ideas/guidance on the above and suggestions it is greatly appreciated. 
 

I’d like to know if anyone has done a blunami setup with speaker (s) and how they wired it all up and if anyone knows where to obtain grills for these fine locos. 
 

Thanks again for looking no again thanks for the help

Cheers

Al 

We have the proven power for a 12volt ride on vehicle

It's easy to wire .. there is a inline fuse ..

Completed

Here is a short video clip showing the diff speeds ..listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ESDS5mM_Cw