This is a fun build to watch. Can almost hear the gears turning as you think through it all :-)

I am liking where this is going. 

And yes we are very much taking on the tin toy look aren't we. One of the reasons I enjoy the challenge so much is the level of imagination and ingenuity we all have. The wide vision of what cans can be made into at the hands of artists is amazing 

pondering different ideas...this journal box casting and the channel I made...

one thought is to bend the channel to make a frame which can ride on the wheels...lets see if that works out.

soldering some parts together and it becomes pretty solid...sand off the paint on that side as needed, apply solder with the iron and it seems to stick.  put the pieces together and heat with the iron...yep seems to do... 

I feel that I will start to get out of the boat

Looks an awful lot like my anonymous friends rig

The casing is what caught my eye. I knew then that someone knew what they were doing and took pride in their work. Nice to have folks like that for friends. 

Dan he is a great guy, and has too many hobbies , but really surprised me with this work of art, I like the bullet casing used as the ferrule.

That's looking good, Pete.  I like the block better than the wood idea.  Your friend did a fine job on the awl.  Nice gift.

Well got home at a reasonable hour, the Boss is at grandsons baseball game across town, so I got to do a little work on the so called "Hippy Hut". Stopped at my big "Blue" Box Home center, got a piece of plastic trim board, $23.00 for a 8 foot piece, used 3 feet =$8.75 towards my $30.00. I cut the trim board down and put a rabbet in it to hide the screws on the bottom sides, and the trim board will give the Hut about 2" more height, to almost 14 scale feet tall at the top.

This is one side fitted to the hut. rabbet hides the bottom screws and has been scribed.

Using my marking tool from Woodpeckers and an AWESOME awl a good friend surprised me with, I scribed lines on the trim board. I made the horizontal lines , but now am at a quandary, should I make the trim board represent cinder blocks or a wood looking base for the Hut

here is a look at 3 sides of the Hut, i have a club meeting tomorrow, so this may be all the work this weekend I get to do

After standing back and studying it for a bit, while enjoying a cold barley pop, I think I will scribe the vertical lines to represent block wall to hold everything in place. More to come, the entrance on the other side needs a lot of work.

WEEK #1

GONE !!!

ONLY 4 MORE

WEEKENDS TO FINISH!!

Pete Lassen said:

A piece of tape with the number on it wrapped up close to the square part, like a small flag should work and not be in the way of using it.

 

It really as simple as marking the case with a sharpie. Its just a matter if doing it lol. 

Devon Sinsley said:

Same set I have labeled under another name. Works great. 

  But I cant read the numbers on the taps. I need to use something to label mine so I readily know which taps are which

A piece of tape with the number on it wrapped up close to the square part, like a small flag should work and not be in the way of using it.

Same set I have labeled under another name. Works great. 

Wish they would have made the plastic case for empirical numbers instead of metric. But I guess you get what you pay for. But I cant read the numbers on the taps. I need to use something to label mine so I readily know which taps are which

To answer a couple of ?s...   This is the set of tap and dies I have..  They are available on the net, and amazon too.   there are a number of sellers, offering the same set, appears to be by the same manufacture under different names......

So shopping by price point will get you the same product....

Coming along nicely. Maybe ask your question about an operational valve to the group. You never know what might come up

So I Found inspiration for building more of the tanker and I built the top filler hatch out of an old Bachmann steam dome.

I finished the decking and painted both the can and the chassis.  I am still waiting on the trucks and couplers but I was able to purchase it under $30 still.

I had a super glue catastrophe happen, much fingers were glued.

I think those look dang good. A suitable compromise between form and function 

Very realistic, Rick.  I can't tell how tight they are, but they are straight 

Nice door!  Not so easy to do either!