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Carl Hibbs
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PostSubject: Re: Automotrice à vapeur (new project)   Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:55 pm

Going off Paul's excellent thread a bit.

There was this thread a while back about the Mh6

cgtrains-regner-mh6-399

I wonder if these people still have these models?
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Paulus



Location: The Netherlands

PostSubject: Re: Automotrice à vapeur (new project)   Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:03 pm

Some update pictures.






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Carl Hibbs
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PostSubject: Re: Automotrice à vapeur (new project)   Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:26 pm

That's excellent...I shall look forward to seeing that run at an exhibition this year. Smile

Have you thought about the colour scheme yet?
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Location: Charente, France

PostSubject: Re: Automotrice à vapeur (new project)   Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:53 pm

That is a truly superb model Paul!

You must be very satisfied?

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Paulus



Location: The Netherlands

PostSubject: Re: Automotrice à vapeur (new project)   Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:00 pm

Thanks!
It will get a blue and vanilla 2-tone color scheme just like the Eggerbahn 'protoype'.

I'm indeed pretty satisfied. The looks are great.

However, building it I know all errors and faults. I forced myself to work as precise as I could but somehow I manage to screw up little things. I also have some little alignment and measurement demons bugging me... For some mysterious reasons, parts that are just the same turn out to be different in the end and straight cuts become curved...
I measure twice, cut once... than cut it again because it still does not fit... Evil or Very Mad

Also, many testruns are required. Each time I make progress some new (or old) part is causing trouble, making it derail. It even got stuck in the tunnel once... Neutral

But than again, I try not to be too hard for myself. After all I'm building this all from a little sketch and a H0e model as guidance. No drawings, no CNC or laser cutted parts, no 3-D printing.
Just imagination, a hobby knive and a sheet of plastic Razz Wink

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KleineDicke



Location: Deep in the Heart of Texas (Houston)

PostSubject: Re: Automotrice à vapeur (new project)   Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:21 am

That dining room table is really getting put to good use, I see. What a superb model. Hope to see it in person some day. Kind of puts my little railcar to shame.Sad

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PostSubject: Re: Automotrice à vapeur (new project)   Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:58 pm

You know the dining table is actually our family workshop Bill. From cake decoration, drawings and artworks to jigsaw puzzles and model trains. One of the things SWMBO does not allow however is spraying paint... And with -12 degrees Celcius outside I'm waiting for good weather to take the railcar outside for a paintjob.


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