Projects

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

Here's one of mine


Can anyone guess the road name?

Photos with the road name and all will be posted later once the home made decals finish drying(about another hr and a half)



Post shots of your kit bashes work in progress paints, etc...

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

since no one wants to guesss

[BestSnowman]

That looks pretty nice, if you had shown me just the picture with decals I would have never guessed it had homemade decals!

(Also I would have never guessed that road name )

[Robertj668]

Those are homemade WOW!
Robert

[hotrainlover]

I may sound silly....  But Carrolwood was for Walt Disney, right?

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

Yep. I got the set with plans on using it for the Musuem i want to do on my layout if i ever build it. and the idea dosent sound right without passenger cars to go with it so i made two of em using the paint scheme from teh caboose(only 1 coach is shown)as you can see in the photo i got both colors and decal colors close.

[CNE Runner]

BaltoOhioRRfan, you made those decals...including the logo? WOW!!! I agree with BestSnowman: I would have never guessed they were 'homemade'. This makes me want to try making some decals myself. Thanks for the pictures and the inspiration.

Ray

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

I put the coaches together for the first time this evening and they look great together. no pics yet as i gotta go to work shortly but maybe next weekend.

[jonathan]

B&ORRfan,

Sorry, just found your thread, as I happened to be at WDW (coincidence?).

If I understand your thread, you want others to post their current projects as well.  If so, here's my little obsession at the moment:







Can't get enough old GP35 kits.  Just picked up a 5th one.  Some have missing lenses or coupler clips, one needs a new motor, but I'll get it all together one day. 

They all run, and all the lights work, thanks to help from forum members.  Here's my current lighting set up:



Didn't install a diode.  I like all the lights on in either direction (rule one).  I find the old brass connector clip makes great light brackets.

Still need sunshades, eye bolts, wipers, etc.

Anyway, great project you have.  Hope I'm not highjacking your intent.  Will pull this post if not what you had in mind.

Thanks for sharing.

Jonathan

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

You nailed the intent, for others to also show off thier projects....kinda like a post in a gaming forum im a part of that as a thread for everyone to show off thier projects so theres not 100's of posts of indivudaly people posting projects....

missin the Capital domes on the Sunbursts.....also you have plans to renumber a couple of em?

and heres a close up of the side emblem on my coaches..

[jonathan]

Wow,

When you wrote homemade decals, do you mean the PC and printer paper kind?  As previously wrote, it makes me want to try it, too. Do you need an inkjet or will laser printer do?

The detail underneath is pretty great as well.

Jonathan

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

Laser would be better....but i use inkjet but im activly lookin at lasers

[BestSnowman]

I've got a couple projects going, I've got a couple locomoties awaiting decoders and I'm designing a shelf layout but nothing with much for pictures right now.

I do have one project I've been spending sometime on a programming project that is train related. I haven't really told anybody about this but I've been writing a program that  keeps track of all my rolling stock, and locomotives. I'm also has some support for keeping track of CV profiles and a Manifest system for operations. Since I am thinking of making my shelf layout Inglenook based I might add functionality to generate starting and end configurations.

I've got some screen shots here: http://cid-811d1df10b2b3e61.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/TrackManager
Its far from completed but I think I've settled on the basics of the UI.

[BaltoOhioRRfan]

I have a system in place to keep track of locomotive status's and rolling stock....about 12 spreed sheets, 1 Locomotives, 1 for PAss Cars, 1 for Box cars, 1 for Old Time Freight Cars(I decided to split up OT from "Modern" have yet to do it on the passenger cars) etc. i useally print em out 1nc a month heres how they look.....

Heres a sample from my engine roster, i blurred out the cost so no one decides to try and rob me....


and as you can see below not as much info is kept on the rolling stock
heres a sample from my passenger car list...


to see readable versions right click and select properties and copy and paste the URL into your browser

or just rightclick and click save as

[BestSnowman]

I hadn't thought of keeping track of costs, then again I'm not sure if I want a summary of how much I have spent readily available for my wife to find.

I thought about just doing excel but I do enjoy programming and where theres a simple solution there is an over engineered solution