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Guys : you are truly Modellers-Artists... Those Tanks and their Scenery looks like as if they were real ! :oops::cool:

Not artistic... Except maybe for the Art of Preservation ? I scored this O Gauge Vintage Model Train at a cool price - it's currently on transit :

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Mercury is an UK Bing for Bassett-Lowke 4-4-2 locomotive, from 1923-1927. A rare functional and well preserved 100-years old item... :)

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Finished the ballasting of the track. Now figuring where the buildings are going to go. Scratch built the grain silos, even put an aircraft warning light on it.
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Nice shot of the Big Boy. The train and tender are only 10" long. Lots of detail for something so small. Lots of fiddly bits.
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EMD F3 engine a B3 helper that is also motorized.
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sanford12 said:
Finished the ballasting of the track. Now figuring where the buildings are going to go. Scratch built the grain silos, even put an aircraft warning light on it.
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Nice shot of the Big Boy. The train and tender are only 10" long. Lots of detail for something so small. Lots of fiddly bits.
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EMD F3 engine a B3 helper that is also motorized.
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“You’ve been working on the railroad all the live long day “ very nice !
 
tubelectron said:
I currently working on the replacement of the weak and clumsy machinery of my PAYA #1105 "Norte"...

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Oh, OK : it's not audio for the moment ! :rolleyes: ;)

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Good luck with your rebuild. Steam engines are more complex to work on than their diesel counterparts. Larger engines are also easier to work on but steam are more complex and don't go back together as easy as diesels. I've watched videos on the Kato N scale Big Boy. With it's twin motors and the many small parts that have to go back together just right. It wouldn't be one I wouldn't want to tackle. Good thing it's a reliable piece.
 
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Good luck with your rebuild. Steam engines are more complex to work on than their diesel counterparts. Larger engines are also easier to work on but steam are more complex and don't go back together as easy as diesels. I've watched videos on the Kato N scale Big Boy. With it's twin motors and the many small parts that have to go back together just right. It wouldn't be one I wouldn't want to tackle. Good thing it's a reliable piece.
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Thanks @sanford12 ! :)

For Sure ! Fortunately, I work on O gauge Tinplate and Coarse Scale rolling stock : it is more "tolerant"... ;)

Today arrived Mercury... Pictures as is, out of the package :

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It is quite amazing to think that this little locomotive is a 100-years old item ! :cool:

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Sent for this a couple of weeks ago and looking forward to using it. Battery operated air brush. Says it's 30psi which is a little high. Usually shoot at 20 or lower. Came with the Master air brush you see, a hose, USB charging cord and cleaning brushes. Probably use with the battery attached more than not. The way it works is nice. The pump only runs when you press the airbrush trigger to spray. Have a air brush with a knob by the cup that lets you dial in the spray pressure which may work really well with it.

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My only modeling now is model railroading primarily in HO scale. Most of my rolling stock and many of my structures are kits that I built. Our last move forced me to disassemble my layout and start over. So currently I am in the design stage and have just started construction. I do have a number of narrow gauge O scale engines and rolling stock that I run over the holiday season when my wife sets up her ceramic "Snow Village" display. This particular engine is a MMI K28 #473 in the "Bumble Bee" paint scheme.

K28 #473 and a few coaches were adorned with the "Rio Grande Gold" or commonly called "Bumble Bee" paint scheme early in 1950 for the promotion of the 1950 Silverton branch season. It was intended to evoke a more colorful, "Old West" feel for tourists. This paint scheme only lasted a little over a year when 473 derailed and was shopped and it was repainted back in the standard Rio Grande paint scheme. Built in 1923 by ALCO, it is one of only three surviving K-28 locomotives from an original batch of ten. It has operated continuously since its construction, never being fully out of service, and currently services the Durango & Silverton line.

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No. 473 was repainted back into the Bumble Bee livery in 2003 for the National Narrow Gauge Convention and the Durango & Silverton Railfest. In the photo below, by Frank Keller, #473 poses with its crew at the Cascade Canyon wye on the Silverton route.

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Finished the ballasting of the track. Now figuring where the buildings are going to go. Scratch built the grain silos, even put an aircraft warning light on it.
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Nice shot of the Big Boy. The train and tender are only 10" long. Lots of detail for something so small. Lots of fiddly bits.
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EMD F3 engine a B3 helper that is also motorized.
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Really nice. It is funny that during Covid lockdown I initially was thinking of doing an HO layout but then got into the RC tanks. Your little N scale layout is cool but i'm totally committed to the tanks now
 
I bet not too many on here have ever built one of these. Nissei is a well-known Japanese machine manufacturer that manufactures plastic injection molding machines and injection stretch blow molding machines.

I got this several years ago while visiting the Nissei booth at the NPE (National Plastics Exposition) Show. The NPE show is a professional manufacturer's trade show/convention dedicated to the plastics industry. For years it was held at the McCormick Center in Chicago but in 2012 was moved to the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando, Florida. The next one will be held this September.

A lot of the vendors have free promotional giveaways, although most aren't as cool as this was. There was a strict limit of one per person while they lasted (and they didn't last long).

It's pretty-ironic that all the polystyrene parts in this kit were inection molded in a machine like this one.

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Hopefully, I'll get around to building it someday. I have a lot of plastic model kits. Mostly cars but some military too. When I was a kid all I built were military kits - especially the kits from Tamiya.

The problem is I never seem to have the time to build any of them anymore but I still buy new ones from time to time when I see one I like and have 2-3 big boxes full of unbuilt NIB kits.
 
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I bet not too many on here have ever built one of these. Nissei is a well-known Japanese machine manufacturer that manufactures plastic injection molding machines and injection stretch blow molding machines.

I got this several years ago while visiting the Nissei booth at the NPE (National Plastics Exposition) Show. The NPE show is a professional manufacturer's trade show/convention dedicated to the plastics industry. For years it was held at the McCormick Center in Chicago but in 2012 was moved to the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando, Florida. The next one will be held this September.

A lot of the vendors have free promotional giveaways, although most aren't as cool as this was. There was a strict limit of one per person while they lasted (and they didn't last long).

It's pretty-ironic that all the polystyrene parts in this kit were inection molded in a machine like this one.

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Hopefully, I'll get around to building it someday. I have a lot of plastic model kits. Mostly cars but some military too. When I was a kid all I built were military kits - especially the kits from Tamiya.

The problem is I never seem to have the time to build any of them anymore but I still buy new ones from time to time when I see one I like and have 2-3 big boxes full of unbuilt NIB kits.
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Model of a modeling machine.
 
It's been a long time since I did any modeling. when I was in 6th grade I made a lot of model cars, planes, ships, and the visible V8 along with a flat track Harley Davidson. Didn't do anything till the late 80's to1990 and model railroading in HO scale was my pick. Sometime around 2005 I had to sell it all off, must have been several thousand dollars worth and I've regretted ever since. Somewhere in the 90's I bought a Revell or AMT model of a 59 Cadillac El Dorado and was going to build it for my daughter because she always wanted one (the real kind) but I could only afford the model. Well it sat all those years till about 4 or 5 months ago and I decided to finally build it, well of course by now she's in her 40's and couldn't care less so I reckon it's for me so I bought a case for it so I wouldn't have to dust the dadburn thing. Now this doesn't even come close to the work I've seen you guys do so be kind. I got it together with only a few screw ups but, I'm sorta happy how it came out, as we use to say "GE!" Good Enough!
And yes, my photo skills aint always so good either.

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It's been a long time since I did any modeling. when I was in 6th grade I made a lot of model cars, planes, ships, and the visible V8 along with a flat track Harley Davidson. Didn't do anything till the late 80's to1990 and model railroading in HO scale was my pick. Sometime around 2005 I had to sell it all off, must have been several thousand dollars worth and I've regretted ever since. Somewhere in the 90's I bought a Revell or AMT model of a 59 Cadillac El Dorado and was going to build it for my daughter because she always wanted one (the real kind) but I could only afford the model. Well it sat all those years till about 4 or 5 months ago and I decided to finally build it, well of course by now she's in her 40's and couldn't care less so I reckon it's for me so I bought a case for it so I wouldn't have to dust the dadburn thing. Now this doesn't even come close to the work I've seen you guys do so be kind. I got it together with only a few screw ups but, I'm sorta happy how it came out, as we use to say "GE!" Good Enough!
And yes, my photo skills aint always so good either.

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All you need is a BB King scale model in the driver's seat.

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