I want to found myself in upstate New York in a white castle restaurant. I ordered a burger and fries and the guy just stared at me in disbelief. He then explained he couldn’t understand a word I was saying because of my peculiar accent!
Those are some very nice looking switch stands. Your painting technique is similar to Bob Ross so don't forget to slap the brush on the bench leg. Saturday I took off to find the Software Roller Mill in American Fork and never made it. Headed south on 2300 W to the Utah Valley Aeromodelers field and what a show they had going on. The star was son of a competition flier only 14 years old. The maneuvers this kid was doing just a few inches above the runway was spectacular. This 6 foot aerobatic plane was flying less than walking speed doing tumbles and spins, knife edge flight, flat spins, you name it. What a great show! I will find the mill another day.
Very nice modeling Dale. Your switch stands are turning out very well. I am amazed at how complicated it is to install them but well worth the effort. It shows that you are having fun building and installing them. As always, thank you for sharing.
Hi and thank you for watching there’s probably an easier way to hook up the switch stands but this is what I came up with and it works. So I guess I’ll keep doing it this way. And now that I’ve done one it’s actually fairly easy.
I feel bad whenever I see Al in your videos. Almost a sort of regret, because I had him as a substitute teacher only once during Junior High. (Not too long ago) Though he only really subbed for music classes. I remember the last time I ever interacted with him was at the 2017 Northern Utah NMRA convention when I recognized him from the school. If only then I had known about your channel, I would have had a better conversation with him. His narrow gauge layout was wonderful, exactly the kind of realistic whimsy I love in a layout. It broke my heart to find out that he passed. My only interaction with this channel back then was the looping video at The Train Shoppe. I'm glad to see you folks carrying the banner still today. Cheers, Preston.
Like your rusting technique. I used to layer the paint silver base, rust, finish color. Then lightly sand through the finish to rust or silver to indicate bare metal. Also used thinner to thin those colors to mimic fuel stains. I found that making old damaged trucks was far easier than fancy paint jobs.
And much funner to! There’s a lot of interesting ways to create rust, but this is always been my favorite. Later on I’m going to come back and add grease. But not until everything is in place and hooked up. Then I’ll touch up any scratches or whatever. And then come back with gloss clear and put little Dobbs where I want to indicate greasy spots
Oh wow Grease! Your process is probably better than mine. I took Ponds beauty cream (used it to lube my trombone slide) and a dash of graphite mixed together and smeared around. Freaked the judges out when they touched it!
Thank you Dale and Karyn, that was very minute work, which at this age does have its challenges. But you pulled it off seamlessly. That's an achievement! I'm a professional painter, and I love working with my airbrush too, so you had me hooked on what you were doing. This is something you'll miss doing, once everything is complete. It's often the journey that counts more than the destination! Being a worker, and a doer, means you'd have itchy fingers once this little job is complete. I find that always to be the case once I complete a job, because the journey to getting there was more fun. I love what you're doing, and am thoroughly enjoying watching you put it together.
I know exactly what you’re talking about! People say doesn’t it bother you that it takes you three days to put together one turn out? No why would it bother me? That’s three really great days! It’s just really satisfying doing something like this and extra rewarding when it turns out nice. But I’m sure we’ve all been to the point where we tear something out and redo it because we know we can do it better and anyway it will be really fun
Thank you so much for watching! I’m just finishing up the switch lanterns well that is to say two of them but I’m going to put power to them tomorrow to see what they look like lit up!
Tres wickedly neat. Excellent video. Liked your comment on Floquil paints. I still have bottles of dried out paint. Heard Tamia is a decent replacement. Definitely not boring. On to watching your next adventure.
I am thanks! Yes I’m never quite sure what to think of testers pants. Grew up on them of course as we all did. But my father used flow quill. Such amazing paint! But everything seems to be discontinued these days. I understand because of toxic ingredients. I am experimenting with acrylics. It is so hard to use! But boy can I look nice if you can get some right.
Toy Man Television The Testors paints were thick (like women’s finger nail polish). I got in trouble with my parents because of spills and mistakes. Thing I liked about Fluquil were their railroad colors. I have owned a dual model spray gun. I bought an air compressor with the thought of repainting ubiquitous ATSF locomotives to either Monon or L&N (not hard to do because the primary color was gray with either red (Monon) or yellow L&N. Of course there are decals available (thank goodness). Keep on tracking man. Like what you have done so far. Using the fgrp tie tie rod was a very good idea. (It is epoxy one fused fiberglass). Tell Karyn hello.
Hi!! I need to get some more bench working I have one more switch I can lay before building more bench work but first we need to paint more backdrop. We just bought some more paint for that a few hours ago
The worst part of that was pulling a Darrin thing back out without damaging anything. Only to have the next one break off too! At least by then I was pretty good at pulling the stupid things out
Looks like tedious work, but once done its well worth the effort! I had noticed at 3:48 that it looks like that you have some moisture trapped inside your watch. Thanks for another great video!
Looks fantastic ! Now you only have to add sound to the switchstand as well and then it will look and squeck as a real one. How about a small speaker under it that is activated when you move the switch...and maybe add the smell of oil to the switch...ah lovely !
So cool. The only UK ones I have seen that are similar, the mechanism is concealed in a column.The most common are an in line switch, like an oversized toggle switch. Great video, as usual
I’ve seen those used! Sometimes even here in the states. The pikes Peak cogwheel rail road users a similar switch control, or should I say points control.
Next Sunday were put in the switch landed in place. I’ve now finished two of them and have several more under construction and I am going to illuminate the two tomorrow to see how that looks. That’ll be next Sunday show.
There is always a method to the madness as you said meditation usually come up with a fix they make Taps for those might try it with a little loc tight after it's threaded..
Thanks! I’m getting quite a kick out of seeing it come together to after all this time. Said that it takes a virus to make that happen. Well I guess it really didn’t I’ve sort of been working on this thing all along it’s just this is really sped things up
Very nice! I am amazed at how you can work with those intricate details. I suppose for the holes in the switch stand target you could build yourself a 1:20.3 12 gauge shot gun and fire away! I am reminded that on Mother's day 1 year ago we met in Echo Canyon on the Big Boy chase. Happy railroading!.
Hi!!! I like the idea of the small gun! When we were filming the Browning Museum they had such a gun. Fires actual bullets not shotgun but the bullets are approximately .090 or just under 1mm diameter so they should make a fairly small hole in whatever they hit
We’re having a lot of fun this week getting the switch lanterns done. Tomorrow I’m going to attempt to illuminate them using both lightbulbs in LEDs to see which looks best. Next Sunday’s show
Looking fantastic! Suddenly, I wanna get into 1:20.3. Can't wait to see the lanterns and targets. I even 2 1:1 switch stand lanterns! Electric and Kerosene.
We are very fortunate here in Utah that we can get in a car and just go. In this case just over to our garage which is a couple of miles from home. But they’re actually encouraging us to get out and go places. Just not where there are people. And around here there are plenty of places with no people
This is so nice to see a yard grow step by step. Was always worried about trying to make my own track but this is very inspiring me! Can you share a trackplan of the yard please ? Best regards from Germany Max
Guten morgan! Hope you are safe and well. Track plan! Sure! Not much to it. Huge but simple. 10 switches. (Points-turnouts-thingy) mostly in the yard and shops.
This 1:20.3 stuff is so cool. I am moving up to O from N mostly to gain that feeling of being more involved in the work itself and each time I watch one of your updates I can feel how much more of that feeling might be there in the larger scale.
There are upsides and downsides to every scale. If running longer trains is your thing N or perhaps HO. But if like us you just really enjoyed building things, if you’re willing to sacrifice the fact you really can’t have much of a layout large is good.
IIRC Micro Trains uses the 00-90 for their couplers, so perhaps a tap used to install couplers on N and Z scale cars could be used to cut threads in the fiberglass throw rods. That would maybe save you the trouble of having to solder a nut to the bottom of the throw rod.
Hi. I did one with nuts yesterday. Works well. But I think a tap will be better. But I glued the screw in upside down and put the nut in from above. Looks better and easy.
I always learn so much from your videos! Thanks for being so detailed in your explanation of what you are doing! Fantastic work. I too have utilized the last few weeks to work on my layouts.
Mormon toyman, cool video, I haven't really worked on any layouts because I work on my clubs and my small 4-8 at home is more of a work bench. Good to see some one screwing around
Club layouts are great! As long as you have your own workbench at home. I thought many times about joining the club and when I was living in Los Angeles I almost did as I had no place to build a railroad. But as long as you’ve got a workbench you’re good
Dale, once all this is over, wondering if you'd open up garage Mahal to show in person? Steve came over to my layout and mentioned these videos don't quite do it justice. I'd love to see it and you guys again.
If you have a 00-90 tap you can tap the fiberglass pc board. It has been my experience fiberglass holds threads well. When you said you were going to thread those brass bolts into the pc board the first thing that came to mind was how many did you twist off trying to do that. I use to build fiberglass yatch for a living so I know how hard it is to thread fiberglass with just a bolt's thread... it's easy with a tap.
Took your advice and just ordered a tab. The settlements are so small and the problem of getting them onto the back of the circuitboard in this case probably soldering him in place when they are approximately the size of a flee, well I think I’ll take your advice and buy
@@ToyManTelevision from someone that has worked in a jobshop... get a couple of taps and pilot drills for the thread size! When you have everything done put a bit of low strength Loctite on the threads to stop them from backing out over time. Friday I was doing a bunch of hole drilling... I broke the last 1/8 drill bit in the shop. So a trip into town was needed to get a drill bit to finish drilling a hundred or so more holes... I picked up ten of them... I didn't break another bit the rest of the job. Odd how that is
To be fair, the 1880s narrow gauge was in the wild West so it would make sense that at some point a gang member might have tried to use one as target practice
Oh my gosh ! I am scale is clearly it’s own thing isn’t it. Just handling switches in that size is interesting. However not that difficult if you use the fast track system. Still Enormous fun
You can find so many different variations on these things. Most of the class a railroads today are being dispatched through CTC. But also using switch machines and switch stands exactly like these in other places
i am not doing train models but i did painting models again because your channel and also with the situation on the world happens :) but still i did like your new intro for the garagemall maybe is your train garden faster done than normally due the virus :)
Yes. The virus is horrible and staying in boring. But working on projects helps. The railroad gives us something fun and interesting to do and we were working on it already. This has sped up the process!!!
Very cool. Why not solder a brass nut over the copper side of the PCB? I had that in some brass locomotive kits, and it works very fine. I used to hate painting, but since I switched to acrylic (AMMO by Mig), it's now a fun task to do. I don't have more issue with the acrylic primer than the nasty car primer is used before, but I soak brass in white vinegar before (even in ultrasound cleaner sometimes). No only it remove any residue, but the acid seems to attack very lightly the metal, giving the primer a better grip.
I’ve been messing with some of the acrylics and I love the finish If you can get it right. The trick is getting it right clearly there’s a learning curve but I’m messing with it mostly out of necessity as everything else is just gone
@@ToyManTelevision I only used Humbrol enamel before, and that was an hit and miss. What I like with the Ammo acrylic is that I can use them directly from the jar in the airbrush, no need for thinner. But they are still good for old brush too. Sure, you should adapt to airbrush lightly, not like enamel. But I learned the trick quickly, now the only issue I still have is with varnish. Matt isn't too problematic, but I cannot apply gloss. I use now the new good old Pledge Klear, and this one works very well, and the smell is nice too.
@@ToyManTelevision You could always use a small nail or brad to simulate a bullet hole. It would push out the back like a bullet does. As far as your switch working loose, one thing I do if a nail or screw works loose is to take it out and put a toothpick in the hole, break it off flush and reinsert the screw or nail.
I’m hoping that all of them will be easily reached and therefore run from the switch stands if any of them are difficult to get to I will hook them up to a tortoise motor
The handles on the switch stands should never be facing toward the tracks. The handle should be parallel to the tracks so that the the locomotive/car/person hanging on the car while passing the switch stand doesn't catch the handle... (just my observation...)
I’m using the Shorty stand in one place for clearances are particularly bad. I’ve tried to figure out on the real real roads when they used to shorties and that’s one reason but another one is it to switch stands are right next to each other build off and do one tall and one short so that you can clearly see the alignment of which is which. Or should I say which switch is which?
I’ve done working ground throws in Ho but switch stands would be right out. You can use the first tracks system in HO and even n. It actually makes it quite simple to hand lay switches. But I really like doing it this way because it’s the way the real railroads do it in this scale I can get away with it
Toy man hello from Ottawa lake. MICHIGAN can you give me the name the Lacquer primer that you're using. Keep up the excellent videos you guys are amazing 👏
The last can I Bought was Sherman Williams Automotive I’ve seen one on Amazon. Unknown brand but may be good. I also bought the SH zinc chromate primer which is kind of red. I think it works better for painting union pacific yellow
Mother’s Day? Oh National Train day! In Ireland drink ale day. Again. Still. Well as it is in most of the world. Oh and Saint Guûinterś day in Bulgaria. As I recall
Just stop it, stop with these videos! I am hoping to start a garden railroad soon, and I'm leaning toward 1/32 standard gauge. But you are making this 1/20.3 narrow gauge stuff look like so much fun!!!
@@ToyManTelevision you know it. There's also MTH. It seems there's MTH / scratchbuilding as my options. Every scale is so wonderful, as you demonstrate with all of your videos! All it takes is one killer video for me to go, "OK, N scale is definitely where it's at...". "Oh wait, nah, O scale Traction is where it's at...", etc. :) Great to see the progress on your 1/20.3 layout. I am *really* enjoying seeing the progress.
JamesC all scales and gauges can be amazing. Or really weak. 5;8” scale 2 foot gauge!!!!! Omg!! I started a model a few years ago. A Guinness 2 foot gauge bear locomotive. I made the driver.and found an LGB loco to convert. And there it sits! But in my mind it’s really great! And can run on the 1:20.3 layout. Even if plot looks way outa place.
