Fordson tugger hoist

[TRAINS1941]

Thanks Very much! The Glacier Express continues.  

Not quite Jerry, here is my remaining list:

Gypsy drum

Brake pad
Brake band
Brake lower attachment
Brake spring/hanger

Friction/grease cup

Brake foot pedal
Friction levers (white glue in)
Friction lever stops

Chain guard/brackets (both sides)
Clamp caps

Gear guard

Then, maybe the Tractor!

You need about six months of rain to keep you inside at the bench.

In my case we need six months of warm beach weather!!  

Jerry

[Chuck Doan]

Shortening the list. Test fitting the gypsy drum.

[finescalerr]

Satisfactory fit and finish. -- Russ

[TRAINS1941]

Just seems everything you add makes it more unbelievable that its a model.

Jerry

[Dave Fischer]

Chuck-- This is coming together beautifully... you are outdoing even yourself! I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but the concentric rust patterns inside the cable drums HAS to be impossible, but there it IS! Deeply impressed as always...    DF

[Ray Dunakin]

The level of realism here is just staggering!

[Franck Tavernier]

Hi Chuck, nice job as always!

The realism is awesome...This scale is definitively stunning...

Franck

[finescalerr]

You guys, in all your enthusiasm for Chuck's modeling, have overlooked one critical flaw: The sunlight is out of scale. -- ssuR

[Ray Dunakin]

You guys, in all your enthusiasm for Chuck's modeling, have overlooked one critical flaw: The sunlight is out of scale. -- ssuR

Yeah, those 1:1 photons really throw the whole thing off.   

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks very much! Yes, that sun is both 16 times brighter, and hotter! Or at least it felt that way today.

Thanks Dave, nice to hear from you again; hope you're latest project is going well. The drums were made in 3 pieces; the core and the two ends. Each item was pre-painted and weathered. After primering, the ends were put in my drill press "lathe" and I used dampened Prismacolor Premier pencils to apply the rust rings. This was followed by a damp toothpicking in an annular fashion to blend them. Then Dullcote followed by a soda blasting to dull the traditional not-so-Dull Cote. The gypsy drum was finished in a similar way, but I used a regular lead pencil to get the steel look started, and then some Prisamcolor pencils applied in an annular way to simulate cable winding marks. No Dullcote for this.

Today, I got the main brake strap applied, along with it's linkage to the brake pedal shaft. All of these parts are made from styrene, brass wire and brass nuts from Walthers. The nuts  tension the brake strap over the drum. The spring was wound from brass wire.  

[Bill Gill]

As you say, it's all in the details. looks good. Hope you got all the 'grease' off your hands when you finished working on it for the day

[Gordon Ferguson]

Fabulous 

[finescalerr]

I think you placed one scratch at the wrong angle by about 4%. Hardly anyone would notice. -- Russ

[TRAINS1941]

Details, details, details!!

All awesome!!

Jerry

[Hydrostat]

Oh Chuck.