#model-railroad — Public Fediverse posts
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Making colour chips to try to get a good match for some model railroad specific paints in something more readily available in Australia.
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Gluing up some prototype SBX coupler shims.
The square section brass tube being used as jig is 3×3mm.
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Bärstadts bekanntester Bewohner mit seinem blauen Bauwagen auf der Anlage der Modelleisenbahnfreunde Odenwaldkreis. (06/12/2025)
#modellbahnfreunde_odenwald #bärstadt #michelstadt #odenwald #löwenzahn #modelbuilding #peterlustig #bauwagen #ZDF #kindheit #modellbahn #modellbahnh0 #modelleisenbahn #landscapemodel #modelrail #modellbahnanlage #modelrailway #modelrailroad #hOscale #kinderprogramm #h0scale #1zu87 #187scale #h0 #modeltrainlayout #modeltrains #hO #kleingarten #tvsendung #üwagen
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Also been working on a better N-Possible coupler conversion for the Kato NW2 using a SBX model coupler. It requires a bit more cutting and shutting than the drop-in URS replacements, but will look a lot better in the end, will fill the giant hole left by the stock coupler removal, and should actually end up with the knuckle at the correct height above the rail head.
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More fine N-scale goodness: Bluford hopper, N-Possible couplers, Intermountain wheel sets, and MicroEngineering code 40 rail (code 55 behind that).
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Picked up a Bachmann Old Timer combine to see if I could steal its trucks for the CB&Q waycar. Have some mechanicals to sort out with it still but looks a lot better than the stock Bettendorf freight trucks already.
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It's pretty wild how much of a difference the N-Possible couplers make.
This was a low-lift conversion using N-Possible URS in a MT box (a 2004, perhaps?) since Kato's OG coupler is massive and a SBX I put in there just twisted around with all that space.
Still need to do something about the length of the shank somehow - probably by doing it properly and drilling a new hole to mount a SBX.
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Little bit more progress on the module this weekend - track fixed (with nails for the moment) and wired up.
I've been thinking about modelling a tiny CBQ depot on the module, as part of a fictional branch. So I was planning on putting down a single track, but relented at the last minute and installed both — the whole point of a T-Trak module is to plug it into a larger layout, and lets face it everyone else will have two track mains, so it's most useful doing same.
