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- Hopefully this can be turned into a sticky so everyone who has bashed their Bachmann Connie can show it off. Post a few of your pics and a brief description of the work done. Here's mine The Lakeville Amboy & Conneaut Railroad's #4. Typically it's job is to haul the varnish but once in a great while it gets pressed into freight service. It has been fully converted to battery power with Airwire controls and a phoenix P8 sound card. The smoke unit and smoke box flicker lights have been remove...
  
  Bachmann Connie Bash Thread. Post your p...
  Last reply by GAP on 6 hours ago
  
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  What have you built lately?
  
  New article on my growing list of passenger cars has been posted here. https://www.largescalecentral.com/articles/188/express-horse-transport-car
  
  Express horse transport car
  Last reply by Sean McGillicuddy on January 24
  
  Rolling stock
  
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  Rolling stock
  
  I begin my journey of this CP Huntington build with what little background information I could find. This “Build a Classic American 4-2-4T Locomotive” Mini Masterclass by David Fletcher was offered back in April of 2005 on MLS. It is inspired from a Danforth Cooke 4-2-4T and is generically based on the 1863 Collis P Huntington preserved at the California State RR Museum in Sacramento. This class was about Basic Kitbashing. Unfortunately, the original files and bu...
  
  Building 1:20.3 Narrow Gauge CP Huntingt...
  Last reply by Tommy Mejia on January 26
  
  Motive Power
  
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  Talk about your locomotives here.
  
  Hi folks The purpose of this forum is to act as a repository of drawings, images, files, etc, of anything railroad related. You can either upload the file, or post a link to it as a message.
  
  Purpose of this forum
  Last reply by Cliff Jennings on January 23
  
  Reference
  
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  Discussion area for reference drawings and information.
  
  The biggest challenge when printing scale models with FDM is smoothing the layer lines. This is much easier when the surface is flat so I designed the shell with no raised areas. The raised detail parts will be printed in resin and added later. I may also experiment with styrene doors and just printing the latches. This is a direct fit for the USAT GP38-2. It slides over the long hood and is fastened with the same screws as the standard cab. The only modification needed is the removal of the rid...
  
  3D Printed Comfort cab for USAT GP38-2
  Last reply by Dan Gilchrist on January 25
  
  Technical Modeling
  
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  Discussing techniques for using 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC machines, and other computer-driven modeling tools
  
  Looking for American railroad figures in the 1:24 to 1:22.5 range, there are a lot of 1:20:3 figure out there but they are a little large for LGB, like the Just Plain Folk ones but they are limited to Railroad workers, any others?
  
  looking for figures
  Last reply by Bill Barnwell on January 21
  
  Figures
  
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  Make your own figures, or modify existing ones? Share your techniques with the rest of us.
  
  This year the boys in the WSRR's shop are going to build Leroy's Transfer and Warehouse. It will be a two story warehouse structure with an attached office and rail loading dock. The office will be heated with an open hearth fireplace so it will definitely need a chimney. Obligatory napkin drawing attached.
  
  WSRR 2020 Mik's Build Challenge Leroy's
  Last reply by John Passaro on 3 hours ago
  
  Annual Build Challenge
  
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  Home of the Napkin Builder. Every year LSC has a build challenge, in memory of a long term member Mik
  
  I have wanted to build this layout for a very long time. I have enjoyed On30 for about 10 years now. I have built two mini layouts that have graced the electronic pages of this fine site for quite some time. A sugar cane hauler set in 1920 Haiti and a primitive backwoods logging operation set in 1910 Kentucky and Tennessee. But the ET &WNC RR ,”Tweetsie” has always held a special place in my model railroading heart. When Bachmann came out with their magnificent Baldwin 10 wheele...
  
  The Blue Ridge Stemwinder in On30
  Last reply by Tom Grabenstein on January 25
  
  O / On30
  
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  The smallest Large Scale
  
  Just out of the shop 7/8th's The local Sheriff rounding up drunks again.
  
  Paddy wagon
  Last reply by Devon Sinsley on January 6
  
  Other Scales
  
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  For discussion of any other scales. N? 1 1/2"? Sn3?
  
  Hi guys, My brother-in-law has a pretty good machine shop. While visiting a few weeks ago I noticed this perched on one of his toolboxes: Pretty nifty, huh? Apparently these were made in the late 1940's and early 1950's. The whole thing is probably only a foot long and fully functional. Cheers, Matt
  
  little lathe
  Last reply by Bob Cope on January 24
  
  Tools and Tips
  
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  Tips and Tricks for everything from X-Acto knives to Zona saws.

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