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[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]//-->ONov/Dec 2008uIssue #41ScaleTrainsCelebratingthe art of1:48 modelingMAGAZINEDisplay until December 31, 2008US $6.95• Can $8.95CALL408-866-1727JUSTANNOUNCEDOR YOUR DEALER TODAY TO RESERVE YOUR PIECE OF HISTORY!N&W Y-6A&B2-8-8-2Never before made, the Y-6a has a shortersmoke box front, BL Feedwater heater on leftside and both airpumps on the right. Made bythe finest craftsmen in Korea, this model willgrace your layout or mantle. Look for a verylimited production of this masterpiece of artand engineering.Coming in 2009.Reserve Price $1799.95Kohs Y-6b Photo By Get Real ProductionsA4“Dwight D. Eisenhower”The fastest steam loco ever will becoming your way. The “Eisenhower” isstill in a museum in WI, the “Dominionof Canada” is on display in that country.The record holder, “Mallard” in Blue willalso be produced. Reserve your A4today.Available in 2 or 3 rail w/sound.Reserve priced at $1799.95NYC J-3A“Super” HudsonWith a Selkirk Smoke Box Front, ScullinDisc Drivers with Timken Bearing Rodsand Centipede Tender, this “Super” versionof the J3a will be thelast word in NYCHudsons. If you don’t get this one, youwon’t have the best. Coming 2009 with allthe bells and whistles.Reserve Price $1299.95NSL SilverlinerNorth Shore Line Fans Rejoice, before there was anElectroliner, Silverliners ruled the roost. Coming in2009 as a3 car set,the Silverliners will have fullydetailed interiors with overhead...well you know thestory, it will have the same wonderful detailing asour Electroliner. Reserve yours today. Greenlineralso planned to produce.Reserve Today.Price TBD37 South Fourth Street · Campbell, CA · 95008 · 408-866-1727 · fax 408-866-5674 · www.3rdrail.comSUNSETMODELSINC.TMCelebratingthe art of1:48 modelingIssue #41Nov/Dec 2008Vol. 7 - No. 6Editor-in-Chief/PublisherJoe Giannovariojag@oscalemag.comOFeatures49172227394559ScaleTrainsMAGAZINEArt DirectorJaini Giannovariojaini@oscalemag.comManaging EditorMike Cougilleditor@oscalemag.comAdvertising ManagerJeb Kriigeljeb@oscalemag.comCustomerServiceSpike BeagleComplaintsL’il BearContributorSTedByrneGeneClemenTsCareyHinCHroGerC. ParkernevillerossiTerSubscription rates: 6 issuesuS - Periodical Class DeliveryuS - First Class Delivery (1 year only)Canada/MexicooverseasuS$35uS$45uS$55uS$80Much Ado About Corners — Part 1: The FactoryHere’s how Joe Giannovario dealt with the issue of corner scenery onOST’sCoal Creek Railway.A Trolley Snowplow for the CG&WA neat piece of traction MoW designed and built by Martin Brechbiel.Building a Portable End of Train DeviceModel the modern era? Then you need Ben Brown’s nifty EOT.Applying a Stucco FinishAward-winning modelers Ray & Renee Grosser explain how to model astucco finish.A Budget Piece of BrassStir one part of beat up brass Diesel body with two parts determinationand Bob Leverknight ends up with a GP35.A K-Line Bombardier Commuter Car 2-Rail ConversionIt almost takes longer to read the title than do the conversion. Well, notreally. Gene Clements shows how he did it.Scratchbuilding with Prototype DrawingsMaster modeler Gene Deimling explains how to use a neat software toolto make 1:48 scaled drawings from prototype plans.2009 O Scale National ConventionHere’s a first look at what’s happening at the 2009 National.Visa, MC, AMEX & Discover accepted. Call 610-363-7117 duringEastern time business hours. Dealers contact KalmbachPublishing, 800-558-1544 ext 818 or email tss@kalmbach.comAdvertisers call for info.www.oscalemag.com • ©2008 All Rights ReservedPrinted in the u.S.A.O Scale Trains Magazine, ISSN 1536-9528, USPS 24457,ispublished bi-monthly in January, March, May, July, Septem-ber and November byOSTMagazine, PO Box 289, ExtonPA 19341-0289. Subscription rates: US Periodical Mail,$35 per year, US First Class Mail, $45 per year; Canada orMexico, $55 per year; Overseas, $80 per year. Postage paidat West Chester, Pa., and additional mailing offices.PoSt-MAStErsend address changes to O Scale Trains Magazine,PO Box 289, Exton PA 19341-0289.Departments152025305064646566The Art of Finescale – Mike CougillTraction Action – Roger ParkerThe Modern Image – Gene ClementsReader FeedbackProduct News & ReviewsBuy-Sell-Trade AdsEvents ListingAdvertiser IndexObservations – Joe GiannovarioContributors:O Scale Trains welcomes your feature articles,photos, and drawings. Such material should be sent to the aboveaddress for possible publication. If we accept, you will be notifiedimmediately. For more information concerning article preparationguidelines, please send an SASE to the above address andrequest our “Guide For Authors” or visit our website at: www.oscalemag.com.Cover:An N&W G1 2-8-0 sidles up to an AtlasO covered hopperoutside the factory onOST’sCoal Creek Railway. The factory isan imposing structure which fills a full corner of the layout. Readhow it was built starting on page 4.Centerspread:N&W G1 #6 shoves a load of coal past the CityLitho company on the Coal Creek Railway. The industrial areaon the Coal Creek Railway was developed step by step. Thewhole process can been seen and read at theOST Blog[www.oscalemag.com/wordpress] under “Joe’s Projects, We built thiscity”. The G1 is a highly modified MTH PRR H3 2-8-0.Nov/Dec’08- O Scale Trains • 3Much Ado About Corners —Part 1: The FactoryJoe GiannovarioWe’ve all run into this problem at one time or another. Webuild a layout in a square room with curves in the corners.Unless you build particularly tight radius curves, this usuallyleaves an awkward space between the track and the walls.In my case, one of the corners actually has multiple planesbecause of a ventilation pipe in the wall.I solved my corner problems by filling them with industries.In this two-part article I will show you how I did that for twoof the corners in the room. Part 1 deals with a factory I built tofill in the industrial corner of the railroad. So, let’s begin.The highlighted area in Figure 1 shows the corner in ques-tion. If you go to theO Scale Trains Magazine Blogand clickon “Joe’s Projects”, you will see several entries under “Webuilt this city...” These describe how I developed the indus-trial section on the Coal Creek Railway. After developing thelower section and the upper portion to the left of the corner,I was left with the corner itself. I decided that a large factorywould be the perfect fit for this area.I scoured the Internet for photos of factories. After viewingseveral real and model factories, I sketched out what I wantedmy factory to look like. This rough plan is shown in Figure 2. Itis approximately 37” across the front and 14” high at the peak.After deciding on the basic shape of the building, I wentonline to the Grandt Line website and started picking outO Scale windows and doors that looked industrial. Some ofthe windows are enginehouse windows turned on their side.Once my order arrived, I started building.Since this is an area of the layout without easy access, Iwanted to build something that was removable so I couldwork on it at the bench, and when it was finished, I couldjust drop it into place. Therefore, the first thing I needed todo was build a shelf on which the final structure would sit.This is shown in Photo 1. The shelf is made from 3/8” ply-wood attached to wooden supports on the layout benchwork.Since the structure would be removable, there was no need1to worry about under-layout access. Photo 2 shows the basefor the factory. The front (trackside) is pointed up in the photo.The base is 1/8” tempered Masonite®. The 1x2s in the photoare hot glued to the base for support and rigidity. Those in theupper part of the photo define the front edge of the factory. Ithen hot glued Styrofoam to the front portion with the shelf inplace to make sure the edges of the shelf would not be visiblewhen viewed from the front (Photo 3).I chose to make the main portion of the factory from blackfoam-core purchased at a craft store. All cutting was done4 • O Scale Trains - Nov/Dec’08Fig. 1Fig. 2with a hobby knife and a #11 blade. The front and rear wallsare 14” wide by 14” tall with notches for the roofing. I fitteda Grandt Line baggage door to the left of the front wall andmade a roll-up door on the right large enough to fit a box-car. The roll-up door is corrugated styrene sheet in a framedopening with a piece of brass tubing at the top.My original design had a bay across the front which wasmade from foam-core and hot glued to the front wall. I had tomake sure the bay was high enough to clear any rolling stockand locomotives on the track. The front of the bay is filledwith Grandt Line windows held together with styrene strips.In fact, I made the window assembly first and then fixed thelength of the bay based on that. A sheet of plain styrene formsthe roof of the bay.When that was completed, I felt the front was lackingsomething; so I added another row of windows up a bit high-er. This was not part of the original plan. I did the same as Idid with the bay. I glued up the windows with styrene stripand then located them on the wall.I didn’t worry about the depth of the unit as it would behard to see once installed. I made up two window assem-blies and fitted them into foam-core frames which were thenhot glued between the front and back walls. (These are theenginehouse windows turned sideways.) The basic factorycore is shown in Photo 4. The window assemblies are onlypress-fitted in place. They will get permanently attached oncethe siding is installed.423Next it was time to fill out the sides. Referring to my planthere are two wings to the factory. One is supposed to bemade of masonry (right side) and the other is wooden. I builtthe wooden side first. More foam-core was cut and hot gluedto the base in the shape of an “L”. The front wall is 6” high by12” long. The side was cut to fit the width of the shelf at thatpoint. The result is shown in Photo 5.I made the actual walls from sheet styrene milled to looklike board and batten siding. I cut openings in the front wallto fit the window castings and then added the strip styrenebracing. This assembly is shown in Photo 6. The backs of thewindows were glazed with clear 5 mil styrene.I hot glued the styrene walls over the foam-core wing andmade a roof of plain styrene. I then made dormers for the sec-tion, using Grandt windows on their sides. I originally hadthe dormers at a right angle to the front wall. It was difficultto see the windows, so I reduced the number from three totwo and angled the dormers. This looked more pleasing tomy eye. Photo 7 shows the left side completed but unpaintedwith the right wing wall installed.Nov/Dec’08- O Scale Trains • 5 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]