Order in modeling!

 Today between my nightshifts I sorted out the wood in the Campbell kit. All is in the kit so building it will be no problem.

The stain is arriving tomorrow.  Stay tuned!

Build me a Howe Truss bridge!

 A total other project ongoing is this Campbell kit

 Today I visit a copyshop here in the neighbourhood and let them made copies so that my original drawings stay clean. The copies will be placed on a sheet of wood so that the sides and bottom can be build 100% flat:

This is what it will be:

 

The kit is provided with a good quality wood, and all extra is sorted out in little bags:

The main bridge parts and the extra parts plus details:

The bridge building is pure for me to practice, and I like this type of building a lot. The kit by the way I bought in England at Hattons, and a friend of mine picked it up when he visited Great Britain last week.

Stay tuned. This week I order some stain for the wood.

Btw, I have aquired a second Campbell kit which is the wharf kit. I will adapt the ACW plan to see if I can adapt the wharf kit to that plan:

Grtz, Ronald. 

Some info

 The 44 tons locos I bought will be converted to the ones of the Claremont and Concord railroad as they operated their short line end of the seventies last century. They had these small locos so tht they cold operate on the ex-tramway line with sharp curves and turnouts.

The scheme is seen here. The green is very early so the red will be the firt. As 2 of them are already red andyellow the second one will be in the.... yellow scheme. Challenge will be to get the original decalling of those 2:

Decals are from Highball Graphics from the USA. They look very good so I'm very curious how they will be in handling and putting on:

So now you know!

Grtz, Ronald.

Some changes in the blog.

 Hi all,

Renamed my page today. Next to Civil War interest I do a lot of other things that are also nice to follow :) So from now on this blog will cover what I do in my modeling. Hope you will stay to see! Can promise you that it will cover interesting subjects.

The ACW H0 project will continue. The plan will get a little change so stay tuned on that one. Next to that a few other ones in H0, my main modeling scale.

Here a few new locos for a exiting project to come! Bachmann H0 44T and 70T locomotives.

Stay tuned!!

Good exhibition

 Goodmorning! The diorama did well during the OntraXS exhibition which was held on 23, 24 and 25th of september in the Railway Museum in Utrecht the Netherlands. 

I had just received my demo table from Martin Welberg (owner of Martin Welberg Scenery Products) which still needs a good front photo plate. Diorama stood for 3 days and received next to my demo good feedback allthough its a trainrelated show.

Had a lot of fun building it and in time it will receive all the figures I planned for it.

Few photos with the cannon:

Later!

Almost finished!

 Well, the dio is almost finished. Bought a nice tree for it from th MBK brand:

Allthough H0 it is big enough for this scale. Poked a hole in the Sculptamold:

Shortened the wire and put it in white glue:

And on its spot. Also placed a set of 3 bushes from the same brand on the right:

I'm satisfied! Just a few small tune-ups and its done!

Some technical stuff.

I added a little extra in the showcase. Its a controller for ledstrips I had for a long while (2014!). It can make some nice lighteffects on a RGB strip which I build in the back of the base:

First I ordered my stuff on the back. Glued the wires and made 2 9 volt blockholders in series to get 18 volt DC for the RGB controler (which operates between 12 and 24V DC):

It is nice isn't it?:

Bougt dome flexibel paint tape in colour to lay over the strips in the case:

Pink in the middle, yellow in front and back. Here you look into the roof:

The effectmodule makes a fire in the background. There IS a war going on ;) :

And a small movie to see the effect:
 

More to come!

Grtz, Ronald.