Sunday Scenic Showcase June 17, 2018

                                                        New Atlas O M53 version................

                                     Same Weaver car, just more money.

Alan and SIRT,

Thank you again for great, inspiring offerings on Sunday Scenic Showcase.

-Tom 

Great stuff!

Peter

Getting a Walthers HO scale kit (UPS building) ready for paint.

I had wall sections left over so made an ancillary building. The customer asked it to be attached to the main buulding.

The AC units come with the kit. The roof top water tank is pieces from a Walthers surge bin kit. The ladder and the conduits from the electrical box are add-ons.

Joe

I got a little more fascia work done this week. 

David Minarik posted:

I got a little more fascia work done this week. 

Love the rivets Dave. What did you use? I am restoring a mine car for our local preservation society, and I made some rivet heads using carriage bolts built up with weld and then ground. I didn't want to disturb what was already riveted, so in spots where the rivets were rotted, I used my "faux rivets, and drilled a hole behind, and plug welded the new heads.

Nice guys!  Looks great this week.

i made some more progress on the replacement structure for the mth freight dock.

I am also looking to replace the mth post office with a new one I had lasercut.

here is the before and site clean up

Rich,

Things are looking good. I really like what you did with the First Prize building. That's exactly what I would give it. Look forward to seeing the post office.

Dave

Wonderful work everyone.  Thanks for an always entertaining and inspirational thread each week.

rail posted:

David Minarik posted:

I got a little more fascia work done this week. 

Love the rivets Dave. What did you use? I am restoring a mine car for our local preservation society, and I made some rivet heads using carriage bolts built up with weld and then ground. I didn't want to disturb what was already riveted, so in spots where the rivets were rotted, I used my "faux rivets, and drilled a hole behind, and plug welded the new heads.

My rivets are just foam.

I believe you can purchase real rivets for about .50 a piece.

You can also look for stamped sheet metal or make your own.  I made the end of these handle bars out of sheet metal with a piece of tubing and a ball peen hammer.

An old mining cart might not like TIG welding.  You would have to MIG it.

Rich883 posted:

Nice guys!  Looks great this week.

i made some more progress on the replacement structure for the mth freight dock.

I am also looking to replace the mth post office with a new one I had lasercut.

here is the before and site clean up

 

Rich luv the Tobins sign and all your other local flavor projects!