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Cargo Holds-Re:- Great Lakes Freighter@ 1/87 Scale

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  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Monday, September 26, 2022 1:21 PM

Yup.

           When My neck allows it I am still plugging along on this thing. If you wanna see her go to the BEARCO models site. They still are up, but in four months they've not answered any inquiries! She's the #24/25 Kit!

        I built cargos and even C.A. and Epoxy did not have an effect on them. Weird! So I re-engineered the holds to trap, by Gravity, the newer loads I got, that work with Epoxy! So out of 17 holds 6 will be open. Just four forward of the Aft Deckhouse.

      I took 20-guage wire(Brass) and made a bunch of coils. Cut them like Snap Rings and flattened them on a vice.The cut was so clean I won't need solder! Now, That way I have polished brass Port frames in the above deck areas. The Wheel-House will have all the gear in it. I hope I can get you some photos by that time. Catchya Later--T.B.

        P.S. it will also have about six Hundred Hatch clamps as well.

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Monday, September 26, 2022 3:16 PM

TB, I don't envy you those hatch clamps. Those are the sort of fittings I had to deal with back when I built industrial models professionally...which made me happy to go back to nice simple airplanes where there are only (mostly) two wings, three or four wheels and at most a couple of props.

Much better for both the eyesight Cool and the sanity! Propeller

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
  • Member since
    March 2022
  • From: Twin cities, MN
Posted by missileman2000 on Thursday, September 29, 2022 9:16 AM

TB, they still ship a few loads of hemitite occasionally.  That stuff is very fine.  If you can mold a hulk of something to shape a bay load, you can paint it with red oxide primer, which uses hemitite for the filler/pigment.

 

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:07 PM

Hi GregBale!

         Yeah! Those things got me using a Magnifier for the first time in I don't know how long! Would you believe they aren't half as big each, as a dried pea!

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:09 PM

Hey! Missileman2!

           Listen, I have samples dropped at least once a week by the Rail-Station Museum. A train will go through at night and drop those Hemetite Pellets all over the sidewalks. So I have a nice real life color sample!

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