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atsfguy:
Greetings from north central Ohio. We are well and spending time working on benchwork, wiring existing trackwork, painting benchwork and preparing to install led lights in two locomotives. We will begin laying new roadbed/track next week after the paint has cured, then more wiring etc.
Had to cancel all my medical appointments locally and with my hearing doctors in Columbus due to the coronavirus threat there. Hometown seems to be virus-free at this time but not certain.
Bored? How on God’s green earth can anyone be bored? I haven’t even mentioned working on my RC aircraft!
Seriously, stay home and stay safe. It also allows you workforce aged folks a taste of retirement.
Best wishes for all,
Cecil
Alan:
--- Quote from: drisdon on April 04, 2020, 01:31:30 AM ---What have I been working on? Scenery, for the last month on my Ann Pere Free-mo module.
https://danrisdon.smugmug.com/Trains/Free-mo-and-Models/Free-mo-Ann-Pere-Junction-Module
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Epoxy and cab-o-sil... awesome combination. In my younger days I used the same to repair fiberglass and SMC hoods on semis. The shop I worked at also had shredded flax fiber as an epoxy filler. Wow wee did that ever make a strong combination. It thickened like cab-o-sil but resulted in a vastly stronger material. We used to joke, next time this truck is in an accident our epoxy/flax repaired area will survive unscathed.
TwinStar:
--- Quote from: crzytrnbuf on April 03, 2020, 09:32:56 PM ---Greetings from Western N.Y. I live in Niagara County and by Morning we will have over a Hundred Cases I suspect,but we are healthy and doing fine spending a lot of time in the Basement cleaning out and rearranging Running all the Locomotives DC DCC and Rail Pro.
Crzytrnbuf
Everyone stay Healthy I am on Facebook, Dennis Michael Patrick McLaughlin I also admin 5 HO Groups if any one is interested friend me.
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Welcome Dennis! I sent you a request.
TwinStar:
--- Quote from: drisdon on April 04, 2020, 01:31:30 AM ---Doing OK so far having done the shelter in place for three weeks now in northern California. My employer is still listed as an essential business, but as of today the plant is very slow/not very busy and had a volunteer layoff for the hourly. I've been working from home, setup a desk in the garage and really love the model train distraction too. Really though working in the garage separates me from the house enough so my wife and son can focus on school and it's like I "left for work". I thankfully had a little forethought to stop by Hobby Lobby and stock up on airbrush thinner, Turpenoid and some other supplies to keep busy with. I haven't done anything with RP in a few months until in the last week as my son and I have done a little switching with my 6 year old son, he easily figures out the RP controller and loves to control the locomotive, though he hasn't quite figured out how the load feature will cause the loco to take a long time to move and stop.
What have I been working on? Scenery, for the last month on my Ann Pere Free-mo module.
https://danrisdon.smugmug.com/Trains/Free-mo-and-Models/Free-mo-Ann-Pere-Junction-Module
This week I started working on building some flatcar and gondola loads. Several months ago I cut some steel and aluminum material at work into HO scale width/length steel plates to build flatcar loads. I built several and then realized other modelers may be interested in these as well and then I went a little crazy and built several steel plate loads and branched into I-beams and now pipe. I have them for sale and my current "inventory" can be seen here:
https://danrisdon.smugmug.com/For-Sale Pricing and direct contact are listed there too (not meaning this to be a "for sale posting")
Another batch of pipe was painted tonight, and I have some I-beam material on order from Ebay, so there will be some more loads coming soon.
I've been meaning to get back to working on several (9) locomotives which are at the stage of needing Railpro installed, LED headlights, SMD LED ditchlights and I'm hoping to do this soon as soon as a some parts arrive from PDC and then they can be completed by weathering.
Dan Risdon
Roseville, CA
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Looking good Dan!
TwinStar:
--- Quote from: atsfguy on April 04, 2020, 07:37:50 AM --- Greetings from north central Ohio. We are well and spending time working on benchwork, wiring existing trackwork, painting benchwork and preparing to install led lights in two locomotives. We will begin laying new roadbed/track next week after the paint has cured, then more wiring etc.
Had to cancel all my medical appointments locally and with my hearing doctors in Columbus due to the coronavirus threat there. Hometown seems to be virus-free at this time but not certain.
Bored? How on God’s green earth can anyone be bored? I haven’t even mentioned working on my RC aircraft!
Seriously, stay home and stay safe. It also allows you workforce aged folks a taste of retirement.
Best wishes for all,
Cecil
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Cecil:
Are you near downtown? We stay on the south side, or at least we used to, on our layovers in CMH. Some trains and City BBQ may be in order if you're close.
Jacob
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