Tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽

@Carey TeaRose posted:

JohnnieW- what paints did you use please?? Oh, what is the 48 Club?

I wish I knew . I say that because I use whatever paint is laying around. I’m a big fan of mixing colors till I find what works.  I know the sky was a medium blue with a lot of white added . Plus I used a lot of dry brushing .  It really was a cross my fingers and hope it works kind of project. I’m the kind of guy that tries something and figure things out as I go .  I can say I used blue , white , green , brown , gray and black latex paint . I wish I could tell you more but I would be lying .

@Carey TeaRose posted:

This guy reminds me of Harpo Marx. I like what you are doing.

Newly arrived. Two big original American Flyer double lamps. Set up in place on the upper platform of the new Basement Layout. New XL frosted globe bulbs are already ordered.

Two quick vids: truck/wheels got changed out on a couple of the original Wide Gauge DORFAN freights, and the original Wide Gauge  AMERICAN FLYER Salt Lake Bridge is now in situ on the Basement Layout. The original five freights are being pulled by a repro Dorfan Crocodile electric.

Newly arrived (today) and on the upper platform of the new Basement Layout. An original Wide Gauge AMERICAN FLYER #102 Central Station.

My Standard gauge, first my 390E from 1929 - 1931, second Lionel's remake 6-13100 390E from 1988 ( uncatalogued 

Not much new this week, just picked up a Marklin newspaper cart in very good condition with very nice newspapers. I really do like the small German accessories as they add so much character to a layout or display.

Miketg

This evening. Running the original Wide Gauge BOUCHER 2222 locomotive and it’s matching Pennsylvania Tender, seen here pulling one original Wide Gauge American Flyer passenger car.  

Pic taken today. Latest version of the lower platform on the Basement Layout. Two yellow repro bumpers added.

@JohnnieWalker posted:

I wish I knew . I say that because I use whatever paint is laying around. I’m a big fan of mixing colors till I find what works.  I know the sky was a medium blue with a lot of white added . Plus I used a lot of dry brushing .  It really was a cross my fingers and hope it works kind of project. I’m the kind of guy that tries something and figure things out as I go .  I can say I used blue , white , green , brown , gray and black latex paint . I wish I could tell you more but I would be lying .

Love the 3D clouds!

Taken today. A nice pic of the left corner of the Wide Gauge/Standard Gauge Basement Layout. Showing Boucher, American Flyer, and Dorfan trains and cars.

I knew it! High drama! I knew adding #92 Floodlight Towers would be perfect for the new Rail Yard! Can’t wait until all the lighting and buildings get wired up.

Loooooong time between drinks at Casa Fatmanos , but finally have a few more goodies coming ...

( Been a bit of a penny pinching few months as I decided to buy a new car for the first time in my life LOL... Currently in Japan and waiting to board a boat ! )

I have filled one of the few remaining gaps in my "Inertia Motor " collection .. with a Wilhelm Kraus Centrimotor coming down south from shivering Europe to a boiling hot Aussie ( 42 degrees C here today)

And closer to the weird and wonderful train topic ...

Two carriages from a little known German company from after the war ... Ottenjann ... or OJA ...Now this is a tricky one as I have pretty much been able to find out bugga all except for an actual company name "Hanseatisch Oldenburgische Blechspielwarenfabrik August Ottenjann "  and even this name doesn't translate too well LOL!

Best I can do is The Tin Toy manufacturing company of August Ottenjann in the Oldenburg area with Hanseatic League connections ( medieval trade guild )  @Arne .. HEEEEEELLLPPPP lol!

I can Literally find NADA online except for 2 references one in a paywalled German magazine/newpaper article

There is ONE set of photo's with a gorgeous streamliner and freight wagons ... no versions of the passenger types I have gotten ?

Another where it is mentioned in a Forum index which frustratingly only adds ...

"Nur ca. zwei Jahre, zwischen 1949 und 1951 fertigte August O. in Oldenburg/D unter den Marken oja bzw. OAO
eine elektrische Eisenbahn in > Spurweite 0."

"Only about two years, between 1949 and 1951, August O. manufactured in Oldenburg/D under the brands oja and OAO an electric train in > 0 gauge."

I think I have a new Holy Grail in finding a loco and tender  ... ( I expect to die before finding one , let alone one for sale lololol.. but hey , you gotta have aims in life! "

Anyway what I have coming !...

However there is a very recent example of one of these carriages on the cover of a German Collectors magazine .... @Arne if you have this magazine I will serve you loyally forever as my master if you can give me a translation of the article  LOL !!!

Balance has returned to the galaxy...the 226E's tender chassis has been restored to its prewar configuration:

Clean-up and testing now, to be followed by a few cosmetic repairs (broken marker lamp, missing whistle casting, broken front steps on the 2226W, and a missing hook from the box-coupler).

PD

At them moment I made new shelves for trains and accesories.

Made from glas and aluminium, glued with silicone.

Arne

Very sharp Arne.

here is a tin plate Standard gauge 517 caboose that the roof looked rough ( with some rust ) that I decided to leave the body and frame alone and just paint the red part of the roof.

Arne,

  Very nice, clean look.

Tom

@Fatman - can you provide a few close-ups of the locomotive & tender? How does she run?

Also, I never heard of an "Inertia Motor " before...looks interesting, but what does it do? If you tell me it runs something related to your trains, I will keel over!

Thanks for the enlightening!

Tom

Just got this Lionel remake of Standard Gauge 400E, It's pulling my 514R Reefer ad 1766, 1767, & 1768 Passenger cars.