7mm Richards P48 US Thread

[mickoo]

A 9" thick slab seems a bit excessive for a shed unless you have a traction engine or a steam roller parked in there .
I was pulling your leg about jacking the slab up

We have soft ground here, previous thinner ones have all cracked.

 

[richard carr]

I did a bit more on freight cars at the weekend

First was decals for the Golden West boxcar





It always amazes me the difference a few decals make.

Then I did the gondola, it went a bit wrong



Oh dear I lost a bit of the "O", the whole thing fell off in the water and getting back on to the paper sheet and onto the model just didn't go to well. The saving grace of course is that these often lost and worn away as they aged.



I then started to weather the boxcar. The green is the right kind of colour but it needs to be faded. So I tried my mix of tamiya X21 flat base 20% paint 80% tamiya lacquer thinners.
I think it's working, it needs a second coat but I want to let this one dry thoroughly before I put the second coat on.







I also use the tamiya mix on this tank car



It needs to be a very thin coat as it goes white if you put too much on.

 

[richard carr]

One of things I have acquired recently is this Atlas GP35 in Kodachrome livery.





The good news with this is it has already been fitted with NWSL P48 wheels, the bad news is that the nose is of course completely wrong.
6533 had a full SP light set. Quite a few GP35s were painted in this livery, and some had a revised lighting pack of 2 horizontal headlights on the nose with a blanking plate above and a blanking plate over the cab head lights.
MTH do offer this on their SP locos so I'll be on the lookout for one on Ebay.







Locos in this livery survived into the mid 90s.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

SPSF = Shouldn't Paint So Fast.

Although the Kodachrome was a nice livery. Shame the SPSF merger fell through.

 

[richard carr]

This weekend the plan was to get the Overland GP60 up and running.

It almost is,



But I decided that the nose wasn't painted well enough, so that got stripped in a jar of celly thinners and is now red again. I just need to mask that off to put on the grey.
Here's all the internals, everything went OK except that the sound was almost silent even though the volume was set to max.





It turned out that the speaker was the issue, a replacement speaker fitted and all was well.
And yes it does appear to be a lot of wiring for just headlights and front ditchlights.



Once it was all back together and the decoder programming complete I added a few detail decals and the number.

 

[richard carr]

What a difference a nose makes !





Once I had stripped it I painted it red and then printed a mask drawn in CAD. I based this on the decal you can get from Micro Scale.

I also removed the hand rail and the other small item on the left side of the nose so that the mask sits flat on the nose.




and the other side. I then completed the rest with tamiya masking tape.



I've added the handrail back in, it needs painting grey.

 

[Jordan or Plymouth Mad]

Once I had stripped it I painted it red and then printed a mask drawn in CAD. I based this on the decal you can get from Micro Scale.

Interesting way round to paint the nose. I bet many would do the grey first & apply the red after. No matter, it's the end result that counts.

 

[richard carr]

Hi Jordan

Funny, thats what I did the first time round, the grey first and then the red and it all went a bit wrong, so this time I went red first, which is what I did before on a couple of other locos.

It seems to work much better

Richard

 

[richard carr]

Well how did we survive the weekend with no WT, easy just get on with some modelling instead !



Some more progress on the GP60, the white stripe on the footplate edge. I did want to paint it but the paint didn't cover very well and I couldn't get a consistent line so I used the decals on the MicroScale sheet. It takes quite a time to do this as the hand rail stanchions are not white. I did the other side yesterday. Painting the hand rails was the easy bit



I did paint the louvres with some dirty black but it doesn't seem to show up much,

 

[richard carr]

Another busy weekend

This arrived as a birthday gift from the Boss




It turned out that his was an easy switch toP48, the wheels simply dropped out of the trucks and were replaced with P48 ones








There was also thes 2 boxcars







It's going to take a bit more work to convert these 2. So I've been busy painting trucks over the weekend



A mix of protocraft 70 and 100ton barber S2 trucks

 

[Stephen]

Nice venture into the Canadian side of things Richard - those Malcolm Byrd's caboose builds are pretty damn good - shame he's not done anything on the Southern Pacific or Sacramento Northern side of things.

Sort of kicking myself for not picking up the two Rich Yoder 1937 AAR 40ft box cars from Ellis Clarke, but give if three weeks and we'll see what MoM has to offer.

Cheers,

Stephen

 

[Big Train James]

Stephen,
Malcolm used to do commission builds all the time, so it might be as simple as asking him. Although I don't see as much activity from him on the various forums I frequent, so he may have cut back or stopped altogether with the commercial projects. I would suggest sending an email if you are interested.

Do you have drawings of the desired cabooses?

Jim

 

[Stephen]

Stephen,
Malcolm used to do commission builds all the time, so it might be as simple as asking him. Although I don't see as much activity from him on the various forums I frequent, so he may have cut back or stopped altogether with the commercial projects. I would suggest sending an email if you are interested.

Do you have drawings of the desired cabooses?

Jim

Hi Jim,

He still posts details of new builds on FB and the O Scale Yard sale yahoo group - it was his FB posts which gave me the first exposure to his work, however didn't realise he does (did) commissions, so yes will make contact with him.

I don't have any drawings for any SN cabooses, although in all fairness haven't make a conscious effort to look for any, but there are a few Western Pacific websites which have some decent photos, so a few enquires with them might lead to some drawings.....

Cheers,

Stephen

 

[richard carr]

I've also been doing some more work on the Golden West boxcar, this time adding some dirt.



Then carefully removing it to leave it looking like this.

 

[Jordan or Plymouth Mad]

I've also been doing some more work on the Golden West boxcar, this time adding some dirt

That 'faded' colour is really looking good now Richard!

I'm going to get some tabs made for my stock - "Bodged by Jordan Foster" - so that people can avoid it like the plague....

 

[richard carr]

Yes it is going iin the right direction, I think I still need to do some more work on the ends, they are almost too dirty.
Thats the nice thing about oil washes you can come back a few days later and attack it again.

Richard

 

[richard carr]

I got back today after an extra day in Chicago due to technical fault on Wednesday nights plane. The main thing is that everything arrived back safely.


Including this an Overland SP SD70M



From what I have seen on the web, Overland did one batch of 25 of these in 1995, so a lucky find.
I was hoping that the missing windscreen was in the model somewhere, something was rattling around inside, but it wasn't to be, but it's not difficult to fix.







It's DC and runs nicely, a little noisy but not too bad. All the lights work so that makes the decoder install a lot easier.

So I stripped it down into it's main parts, the first job is to convert it to P48, fortunately Jay does some suitable wheels for theseso I can avoid doing any machining, and his wheels are very nice.

 

[Brian Daniels]

I got one of these.

 

[richard carr]

At first sight converting this to P48 and adding a sound decoder seemed relatively straight forward, sadly it didn;t quite turn out that way.

The easiest bit was the conversion to P48, right o way does some very nice wheels for these later overland models that have 3mm axles.



Here are 2 of the gear boxes with the new wheels pressed on. The other nice improvement over earlier models is the addition of roller bearings on the axle ends and in the gearboxes.





I added fresh grease and everything went back together fine. This model is now 30 years old.

To install the speaker and decoder you need to create a platform above the motor and drive mechanism. I decided to print one as the weather was a bit warmer. Fortunately this doesn;t need to be that accurate as you can see it has lifted at the right hand end on the build plate.



It works well enough and goes in like this



That's a big speaker, it unfortunately doesn't fit it's too wide.

So having got everything wired in I went to put it all back together to find that the body opening wasn't the same as the foot plate, oh shot !




So back to the drawing board for a new platform, and the decoder needs to be mounted vertically




So now it's all back together and runs really well the ditch lights flash on F14. I just need to make a new windscreen

 

[richard carr]

I've been playing trains this weekend and I finally managed to get the Sunset GP9s with QSi decoders all consisted together

I just need a big train for them to haul.

Richard