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Post by iomalley on Mar 18, 2015 21:45:57 GMT -5
When is the RPM in Truro?
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Post by tjmfishing on Mar 19, 2015 6:48:59 GMT -5
www.facebook.com/MaritimePrototypeModellersAnd for those of us not on Facebook, June 27 at 36 Douglas Street, Truro NS There's a group that goes down from NS to the New England/Northeast RPM meet. They aren't going this year but they invited me in 2016. If I'm still in the area that's one trip I'm not missing.
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Post by tjmfishing on Mar 19, 2015 15:33:38 GMT -5
So you're gonna fly down, right?
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Post by tjmfishing on May 12, 2015 20:50:47 GMT -5
How many RS-11's are too many RS-11's?? If I can get them cheap I will buy them. Added another two undec NIB RS-11's to the collection last night, along with two Kato SD40's and two Stewart C630's. Most of these won't last as RS-11's for long though, as they are destined to become a mix of MR-18b's, c's, g's, MR-14c's and DRS-18's. I also found the time to decal the other side of 1719. I'm hoping to have the handrails on for this weekend and the trucks won't take long at all. Decals by iomalley of course. I got really confused when I was decalling the second side of this, as I was looking at 1709, which had backwards facing stripes. I spent a couple minutes wondering what I was doing wrong as the decal wouldn't fit until it dawned on me.
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Post by tjmfishing on May 19, 2015 21:17:10 GMT -5
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Post by iomalley on May 20, 2015 17:08:29 GMT -5
My favourite one so far! Nice job!
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Post by tjmfishing on May 20, 2015 21:35:09 GMT -5
Thanks Sean, I pretty well finished it off tonight less some light weathering on the trucks.
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Post by simulatortrain on May 21, 2015 18:55:01 GMT -5
Awesome!
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Post by tjmfishing on May 21, 2015 19:09:42 GMT -5
Couple more shots.
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Post by dekon on May 22, 2015 19:48:35 GMT -5
Outstanding!
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Post by Mark R. on May 31, 2015 21:22:37 GMT -5
Where did you attain the square grills on the long hood of 1757 with the cross-hatch grills ? I need a bunch of those myself and have been coming up dry as to a source.
Mark.
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Post by tjmfishing on Jun 1, 2015 21:00:06 GMT -5
I had some that were resin cast. I need a bunch more as I am basically out. Chris Mears was going to 3D print them...
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Post by jakeloyst on Jun 2, 2015 19:36:18 GMT -5
Chris has them on shapeways, in singles and set of 3, they are also avail as singles from kaslo shops, and from layout-oie if you just want the photo etch grills. the grills are also available from Highball graphics as decals, that look good, you just need to build the square frame around them
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Post by tjmfishing on Jun 2, 2015 20:04:54 GMT -5
I also need a supply without the chicken wire aka cross hatch
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Post by jakeloyst on Jun 3, 2015 21:14:27 GMT -5
was looking as the photos, and do you mean, with absolutely no outside wires, or something like the MBE ones, that are more of a grid pattern. Some of the photos I have show what looks like just a dirty filter, and the others show a square upright pattern
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Post by iomalley on Jun 4, 2015 10:22:21 GMT -5
The original filters were a large gridwork screen welded to the square hole in the door and a flip open frame on the inside of the door made with the same grid mesh That sandwiched a piece of filter material that came on a roll. The only reason that I know this is that my dad removed half a dozen of these frames from scrap S7s at the London RH in the early 80s to install in the back wall of our garage so he could make the garage into a makeshift paint booth. Rolls of material disappeared from the shop as well. The grid spacing varied, and it seemed that CP had a tighter grid spacing than CN did. The mid-era filters were seperate box frames or cassettes where filters could be changed out on the bench and the frames stocked to be quickly changed out in the units, rather than taking an armful of material out to the units to change them the old way. The dirty ones went back to the bench to get changed and restocked. They probably saved a ton of material this way too. I'm not sure CP did this mid-era filter, but CN did. Early cassette The late ones were just furnace filters in the cassette, and not very effective, but the MLWs were on borrowed time and nobody cared. The paper framed ones fell apart as soon as the rain hit them. I think they were metal framed furnace filters at the start, but I had heard they went to paper at the end to save money. I wouldn't be surprised if the early furn filters were supplied by the FARR company, as I've seen something similar in Canadian Army trucks. Cassette w/ Furnace filter
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Post by CentralVermontGuy on Aug 20, 2015 16:14:39 GMT -5
Hi Taylor,
Just a quick question for you; do the Kato rsc2 trucks fit the rs-11 frames okay (or with some minor work)? I haven't got any rsc2 trucks yet to test fit.
Your rsc-13 & 14s are really nice builds.
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Post by tjmfishing on Aug 20, 2015 16:37:13 GMT -5
Thanks. The frame that the RSC-13's sit on are custom built from brass as they are shorter than an RS-18. The RSC-2 trucks fit the RS-11 fairly well but I think I had to rebuild the bolster a bit. If I remember correctly, the Proto RSC-2 truck dropped right in.
I am hoping to get a few more of these tidied away this winter.
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Post by CentralVermontGuy on Aug 20, 2015 19:31:53 GMT -5
Thanks for the info,
I'm trying to gather all the necessary parts for a pair of rsc-14s and to finish my M420 this winter.
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Post by tjmfishing on Dec 5, 2015 0:22:47 GMT -5
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