Titebond, yes sir. I have used it to glue up every ship model I've built since 1980. I like your research work on the ties. I lived a half mile from the railroad yards in my home town and they had storage yards where they stored the ties and they never had any that were that long and in the yard itself they used plates like you are when they laid track that mounted switches and double tracks that were close to each other. When you first started talking about putting plastic spikes on the plates I thought to myself, "He should do like I do to treenail a ship deck". Great minds think alike.
I watched the videos with great interest and you pointed out some things (the ties and the curve of the tracks) that I did not know about. I have to admit, I am learning a lot from this. Thank you for all the research done. I admire you for all your patience that you had with this project. Thanks.
Hey Gary. Watching this over again.. did you know those "bridges" on the tracks are what the main frame of the gun between the rail cars would sit on when firing. There are large feet that would jack the weight off the wheels.
Looking great so far, Gary. I'll be watching with DP and chips in hand. Don't worry how many parts you will be doing, this is your baby take your time we'll still be here watching, cheering, crying when things that don't go good. :D
No Harbor Freight....You don't know what your missing. But you have all those little tool stores in Pigon Forge and that big one next to the knife store. When ever were down there thats the first thing I hit is those tool stores.
Hi Gary just for fun keep "track" of how many parts in total because we all know you are going to add many more than what you have already remember the little plates you mounted underneath looking forward to the next video
Looking very good, Gary. It is nice to see a modeler who does his research too. To often, modelers will just blindly follow instructions. When I start posting vids of my USS Iowa build, you will see that I do the same as you, and try and make a more accurate model. I am fortunate for modelling the Iowa, since I live in Des Moines, Iowa, and have a model made by the US Navy sitting in our capital building. But guess what... It is not as accurate as it should have been. I have found several mistakes in it, probably due to the modelers following original plans, and not looking at the ship as actually constructed. I think your tie plates will greatly improve the appearance of the model, so I would say it was time well spent.
oh my god I don't kwow how you keep your sanity doing all of the railroad tie plates, I just did about 50 of them so far im losing my mind but it a fun way to go
I am slowly amassing a pile of pin vises, looking for one that will hold the really small number drills and not have them spin in the collet when the bite in. I thought brass collets would do the trick but still no joy. dismal. After 400+ holes I would have been pissed! Rick
I had the same problem with other pin vises I had bought. Some of them you could not center the drill bit because they were so poorly made. The set I show in the video are the best I have found yet. Micro-Mark sells them for around $17.
Welllll.....I went back to the picture I have, that I showed in one of my videos, and it clearly showes only 4 spikes per plate. You have something that shows 8 I would like to see it.
Maybe the lighting in the pic, but I see 8, doesn't really matter, you did a really good job on those. But do look into "Bare Metal Foil", expensive, but comes in 5 or 6 colors and is super thin, it will work really well on the silver areas on the gun. At 5:51, the 1st 2 sets of ties show 8 large nuts on 8 large bolts. I used to drive "Flat-bed" in Winnipeg that is a huge transport hub for North America and have delivered 1000s of steel rails and have seen these plates many times before, all of them had 8 holes in them, just thought I'd let you know.
A railway gun uses chemical explosive propulsion. A railgun uses electromagnetic field propulsion. Dora is a railway gun not a railgun. Say, is that the new pointer you just made that you are showing me now? HEY?! ; p
Ah yes but it is a gun and it's on rails....so it' a railgun. I'm not even sure if gun is proper, but I like railgun and I think I'm going to stick with it. Thanks for the technical info.
hm.. yvw for the tech info.. but did you see the *; p* (eye winking, tongue sticking out thingie) which indicates my comment was not 100% serious? : ) *sigh* meant to be funny : ( ; p
