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Workin' on the railroad

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  • Member since
    March 2005
  • From: West Virginia, USA
Workin' on the railroad
Posted by mfsob on Saturday, November 7, 2009 11:52 AM

One of the joys of building 1/700 ships has been the explosion of kit offerings in that scale in recent years, and the subsequent rush in aftermarket PE accessories for things that most ship modelers could only dream about even a few years ago.

And while there are more and more accessories being offered, like buildings, if there are not a lot of buyers they won't be on the market for long. White Ensign Models had a great line of railroad rolling stock for awhile, but when I finally got around to working on a stateside dockyard diorama of an attack transport, they had stopped making them because not enough people bought them. Bummer. To the internet to see what 1940s vintage boxcars, flatcars and switching engines might look like. Then out came the 1/700 scale ruler, pieces of styrene, bits of photoetch and my trusty Waldron sub-miniature punch to make the wheels. The results turned out OK, to my eye at least:

And my daughter has the nerve to call me OCD ... Big Smile [:D]

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Third rock from the sun.
Posted by Woody on Saturday, November 14, 2009 8:51 AM
Hey that looks awesome! I need to get a set of those punches.

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones
  • Member since
    March 2005
  • From: West Virginia, USA
Posted by mfsob on Monday, November 16, 2009 7:31 PM

Be forewarned, although both are hideously expensivive, the Waldron miniature and sub-miniature punch and die sets have been invaluable for me, as I work primarily in 1/700 ships and 1/72 aircraft. I am constantly amazed by the variety of things I can create out of different sizes and thicknesses of plastic stock.

The only down side is that since Waldron folded they are only available from Roll Models.

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    August 2008
Posted by tankerbuilder on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:16 PM

Hey there! Is there any way I can rent one of the lcvp type boats to do some repair work on my seawall?? Those are doggone good looking vehicles and stuff. Did you scratchbuild the ship or use a kit? Could you send a bigger picture??  tankerbuilder

  • Member since
    March 2005
  • From: West Virginia, USA
Posted by mfsob on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 3:21 PM

Thank you for the kind words tankerbuilder. The vehicles are all from the old 1/700 Skywave Vehicles on the Beachehead kit, although I filed down a few of the GMC trucks to look like civilian rigs. The main ship is the Loose Cannon Productions Haskell-class APA, http://home.earthlink.net/~loosecannonproductions/Kit15.html . There are some bigger pictures on my web page of this build, http://home.earthlink.net/~mymodels1/attack_transport.htm .

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