I am an n scale modeler but i used to work for MTH building their layouts. So i am used to working in different scales,but for me to participate i would like to post pictures, im not computer savy and dont know how to do it. Its strange to me that all this talent on this forum, we can do wiring, build detailed structures and we all have troubles posting pictures, its gotta be easier.
"HONGZ" stands for HO scale, N scale, G scale, and Z scale.
Post your non-O scale stuff here!
@rustycoupler posted:I am an n scale modeler but i used to work for MTH building their layouts. So i am used to working in different scales,but for me to participate i would like to post pictures, im not computer savy and dont know how to do it. Its strange to me that all this talent on this forum, we can do wiring, build detailed structures and we all have troubles posting pictures, its gotta be easier.
It's not hard. Upload your photo's to your computer. Then when you create a post select add attachments and a window or file will pop up containing the photo's. Just click on the one's you wanna post. If i can do it anybody can.
I love having this forum available as I believe there are plenty more folks out there like me that have an interest in multiple scales. Easily over the past 10 years, I've started layouts in semi-scale O, HO, N, and scale O. Right now I have an O scale layout in the works, but every now and then, still set up my DCC cab and an oval of Kato Unitrack to run the n scale equipment that I have stashed away. One day, I'll build another n scale layout.
There just didn't seem to be much interest in HO over here, which is understandable given the primary focus is O scale. But if there is interest, here are some recent photos of what I have been up to:
3D Printed HO scale tank cars, and structures:
I utilize Fusion 360 for my design, and use a Prusa Mini FDM type (filament) printer.
The tank car is a 4000 gallon ACF Sharon built tank car. Plans came from the 1994 "Model Railroader". Both cars are stenciled "Vegetable Oil Only".
Here is a photo of a car when I started production of seven additional cars. The top complete car is my prototype, and makes eight cars. The bottom tank and underframe were for production car #1. I'm giving away six of these cars to model railroad buddies that either work on my railroad, or have done nice things for me that were modeling related. I'm going to make more for some other good friends. Grey parts and tan turnbuckles are Tichy Train Group parts, off-white parts are designed and printed by me, white parts are Evergreen strip and rond stock. I did all the assembly, painting, decaling, and weathering. Trucks are Tichy, wheels are Intermountain, couplers are Kadee #153.
This crane is designed off of a Dean Freitag article in the April and May 2009 "Model Railroader". There were no plans, only a couple of shots with rough dimensions. I designed the crane full size, and because I needed a smaller crane for my tractor plant, I printed a smaller one at 61.74% size, except for the operator cab, and the walkway details that are Tichy parts left over from a oil storage tank kit. The white part of the crane still needs to be painted safety yellow. Oh, and I finished the scenery around the crane too.
Back to Freitag Foundry, here is a couple photos of the in-process structure on display when I did a presentation on my 3D printing activities for our local NMRA division. Everything in this photo was designed and 3D printed by me. This whole scene will not utilize ANY commercial parts, as I'm using this project to improve my Fusion 360 design knowledge.
Spokane Southern Layout photos
I've completed all of the scenery on the upper deck extension (except for some small details that I will add when the mood moves me).
Regards,
Jerry
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@rustycoupler posted:I am an n scale modeler but i used to work for MTH building their layouts. So i am used to working in different scales,but for me to participate i would like to post pictures, im not computer savy and dont know how to do it. Its strange to me that all this talent on this forum, we can do wiring, build detailed structures and we all have troubles posting pictures, its gotta be easier.
I have never had a problem loading photos on the forum. The way I do it is to save or move photos to my desktop and then drag them into the page for loading photos. (FILE CHOOSER) If you do it from a smart phone it is harder. j
Does anyone have any idea of resources that I can go to, to find HO Scale trains to acquire? Can I post HO wants in the "Wanted to Buy" O Scale Forum here?
After buying many streamlined "O" Scale locomotives, just bought my first HO one, this, from Hatton's in the UK:
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Atlas N Scale MOW CSX Ford F-250 and F-350 Trucks!!!
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I don't think a lot of people realize how far H O has improved from it's early days. Detail and sound system are equal to O gauge.
Feet yes you are right N scale and HO scale has come a long way!!! But feet i had always had issues with HO track with trains derailing and dead spots even when track is in perfect condition and track clean and power drops in track but i model N scale and i never have any track issues or dead spots.
Jeff: Try the excellent KATO track system (HO & N).
N scale compared to HO scale:
We all have to find our happy place in this hobby, whether it's in N scale or HO.
FWIW...
As for derailments/dead spots:
* Derailments are typically traced to joints, points, flanges and wheel gauge.
* Dead spots are typically traced to joiners, oxidation (brass is especially prone to this), or plastic frogs in switches.
Andre
Before today I think I've only posted in the O Forum, but here are a couple photos of my HO "Williamsport & Susquehanna Valley." Just to do my part to boost the interests of the HONGZ forum.
John
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@Tinplate Art posted:Jeff: Try the excellent KATO track system (HO & N).
Tinplate Art i do use Kato track in N scale and it is very good track and i ever get into HO i will use Kato HO track!!!
This is a video I took of one of my trains running on the upper level of the HO layout at the South Florida Railway Museum in Deerfield Beach, Florida. The BNSF EMD SD75Ms are Athearn Genesis models with Soundtraxx Tsunami2 decoders that I installed, and the Santa Fe GE C44-9Ws are Kato models with Soundtraxx Ecoanmi decoders that I installed. The freight cars belong to the club. The caboose is an Athearn model that I also own.
The South Florida Railway museum is open to the public on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, and Saturday afternoons from 12:00 to 4:00 PM, and by appointment. The museum also has a very nice N scale layout as well. The website is www.sfrm.org.
Stuart
@Stuart posted:This is a video I took of one of my trains running on the upper level of the HO layout at the South Florida Railway Museum in Deerfield Beach, Florida. ...
Stuart
A beautiful train and amazing layout!
John
Here is picture's Atlas N Scale CSX 41' Ballast Hopper Car. I got today in the mail.
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Here's another video I made at the South Florida Railway Museum, this time featuring a more classic diesel. It is a Bowser Milwaukee Road Baldwin AS-616 with Tsunami2 sound (I won the decoder in the contest that Soundtraxx held in November). Enjoy!
Stuart
Here is a short video running my csx n scale train. 12/04/22
Here is a third video, just created this evening, of a coal train with three Norfolk and Western steam locomotives, and thirty nine Virginian Railway coal cars.
Stuart
Awesome HO coal train Stuart!!!!
Here is a hay brothers ballast load for my atlas n scale csx 41' ballast hopper.
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Here is a kato n scale track package i bought today!!!
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Here is a new bachmann n scale Santa Fe EMD F7A engine. I got this from bachmann under there limited lifetime warranty. My bachmann n scale Santa Fe EMD F9 engine the drive shaft on one end broke could not get parts for it so they sent me an F7A to replace it.
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@Stuart posted:Here's another video I made at the South Florida Railway Museum, this time featuring a more classic diesel. It is a Bowser Milwaukee Road Baldwin AS-616 with Tsunami2 sound (I won the decoder in the contest that Soundtraxx held in November). Enjoy!
Stuart
A very late reply to your post but I think not too late to say that your Baldwin AS-616 is one beautiful slow and smooth-running engine. The sound is amazing!
John
@John's Trains posted:A very late reply to your post but I think not too late to say that your Baldwin AS-616 is one beautiful slow and smooth-running engine. The sound is amazing!
John
John,
A late reply is still better than none. Thank you for you nice comment. You can also thank Bowser for making such a nice engine, and Soundtraxx for the excellent sound decoder I used.
Stuart
@Ron H posted:
Ron, That figure in the cab is very good. Did you paint it? And is this O scale or G? The detail on the engine is excellent. Maybe you posted earlier on this and I missed it.
John
@John's Trains posted:Ron, That figure in the cab is very good. Did you paint it? And is this O scale or G? The detail on the engine is excellent. Maybe you posted earlier on this and I missed it.
John
John,
Thank you very much. I painted the figure. The locomotive is an accucraft 1/20.3 G scale K28.
Ron
@Ron H posted:Here are a couple of Preiser figures posed with the 1/20.3 K 28.
Ron
This is truly excellent work in figure painting.
John
@John's Trains posted:This is truly excellent work in figure painting.
John
Thanks John, but these actually were pre-painted Preiser figures.
Can't take credit where none is due.
Ron
@Ron H posted:Thanks John, but these actually were pre-painted Preiser figures.
Can't take credit where none is due.
Ron
I just learned something. I didn't know anything about them before but I'll have to keep in mind Preiser figures next time I need some HO or O people.
John
@Ron H posted:John,
Thank you very much. I painted the figure. The locomotive is an accucraft 1/20.3 G scale K28.
Ron
John, they gave 1:20.3 scale the designation "F" as opposed to "G" which is 1:22.3 (LGB).
@Tinplate Art posted:Just wondering why we do not have more participation on this forum?
In scanning these posts I have not seen this reason mentioned:
There are many FACEBOOK groups that cover these OTHER scales (N, S, O, Large-scale, and more).
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Facebook is great for "what happened 5 minutes ago", but not so good for finding older topics.
I would opine that the O ga. Forum posts are more "thought out" and informative.
The Facebook posts seem to be more repetitive, and not as "in depth" (lots of sort of repetitive photos?).
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I sometimes post my automatic control notices on the Facebook group "O Gauge Model RailRoading Tips & Tricks and more", but there are so many posts, that my post is essentially "BURIED" after a few hours.
@James Ingram posted:In scanning these posts I have not seen this reason mentioned:
There are many FACEBOOK groups that cover these OTHER scales (N, S, O, Large-scale, and more).
You are absolutely correct, Jim! I happen to be a fan of, and involved with, multiple scales, including Z, On30, and Large Scale (LGB). I am a member of multiple FB and other social media sites devoted to those scales, not to mention a number of O gauge groups that I also follow.
You are also correct in noting how quickly posts disappear (or are swallowed-up by subsequent posts) on those various sites, not to mention the difficulty in finding them again, if necessary.
If an individual in any of the aforementioned scales (or others) want to follow a posted topic, it's hard to beat the ease of doing so on this OGR forum. It sometimes takes time for folks to discover alternate resources, but once they do find these pages they rather quickly see how valuable they can be when it comes to following a given topic.
It would, of course, be even more helpful if each of the other scales could somehow have their own sub-forum so these various scales are not bundled as an assortment.
@Allan Miller posted:
<SNIP>If an individual in any of the aforementioned scales (or others) want to follow a posted topic, it's hard to beat the ease of doing so on this OGR forum. It sometimes takes time for folks to discover alternate resources, but once they do find these pages they rather quickly see how valuable they can be when it comes to following a given topic.
It would, of course, be even more helpful if each of the other scales could somehow have their own sub-forum so these various scales are not bundled as an assortment.
I'm think I should address this question mainly to Allan Miller ??
SEPARATE forums for Z, N, HO, and G scale??
This question has probably been asked many times before:
QUESTION: Is there any possibility of actually making SEPARATE forums for Z, N, HO, and G scale . . . rather than "dumping" them all together "in one bucket" (as you mentioned above) ??
This would similar to how you now have separate forums for S-Scale, 2-Rail O Scale, and O Scale Narrow Gauge ??
This might make the Forum MORE appealing to the Z, N, HO, and G scale people ??
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SEARCHING:
As you mentioned, we can do "Google searches" and find things that are years old in the O gauge Forum -- which is very helpful.
By contrast, Facebook is almost useless for searching . . in part because most of the Facebook groups are private. Also, things on Facebook just get quickly "buried"; the organization is essentially the same as a garbage dump: newest on top.
But having SEPARATE CATEGORIES for Z, N, HO, and G -- might make the Forum even MORE useful ?? You may notice, Facebook have everything separated into "fine categories"; many groups for EACH scale, very little combining of scales.
As a few said, it is an O Gauge site and magazine, but I too also do HO on a 5X9 layout that is in the center of the room of my around the walls O gauge layout. When the HO is aggravating me, I enjoy letting the O gauge stuff roll and crush the track dirt and tarnish that brings the HO to a screeching halt. The 44 year old HO layout has been rebuilt many times and has locos and cars I bought as a kid 60 years ago. I do the HO with no outside input, no magazines, because when all the HO'ers seemed to go to computer control of everything, I stayed with DC, but I have dabbled with DCC and have a couple locos set up for it. Right now working on clearing an 8X16 space for a Lionel accessory centered layout, plus I am constructing an old school 30X60inch, in this case 32X64 inch layout reminiscent of my loop of track as a kid, but with some more bells and whistles. I also shun automation in my O gauge stuff, preferring a pair of ZW's to run the show. To each his own as they say.
Found this Rivarossi signal box in a pile of stuff acquired recently at an estate sale. HO/OO scale I think, and likely made in Italy during the years immediately following WWII (given the wood/wire/composite materials):
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