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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2: Coach Interior Paneling

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2. A blog about my working in SE scale. Saturday, March 27, 2010. I had today off and ended up falling asleep in the afternoon for a couple of hours. It seems that ended up tweaking out my "tired" schedule because it's 2AM and I'm posting pictures on the blog! Anyways, with the coach it's starting to feel that for the amount of time I'm putting into it, it sure doesn't look like it. These next couple of shots don't look at impressive, but it's what I've been working on. Most of ...

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2: Back in Production

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2. A blog about my working in SE scale. Sunday, October 10, 2010. Well now that things are starting to settle down a bit for me, I started putting in a little work on the coach. For now I've set aside the chassis - I have neither the space or the tools at this point to work on that in our new [temporary] apartment. This, however, gives me a chance to focus on the coach body and accessories. In addition to working on the coach I also took a shot at trying something completely new.

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2: April 2010

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2. A blog about my working in SE scale. Friday, April 2, 2010. Building the chassis for the coach out of metal (aluminum) meant that I needed to learn some new ways to do things. As it turns out, MIT (yes, that. MIT) has a collection of 10 video lessons. Online giving a complete introduction to machine shop tools and techniques. For free. I've watched about the first half of them, so when it came time again to work on the chassis I took a shot at trying them out. You can probabl...

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2: October 2010

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2. A blog about my working in SE scale. Monday, October 11, 2010. Well I finish my first 7/8th scale figure. Actually, he's a tad tall and he's probably more like a 1/12th scale figure. Oh well. Yesterday our hero was headless. Tonight he received a head, hat, hand, and rake. uh. thing. The wife told me to stop using her professional baking sheets and to use a disposable aluminum one instead. Oops. Sunday, October 10, 2010. The windows on the opposite side have also been install...

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2: February 2010

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2. A blog about my working in SE scale. Tuesday, February 2, 2010. Egger-Bahn Contractor's Diesel in 7/8n2. I had put 7/8n2 on hold for a bit to work on my indoor HOn30 micro layout. However, in the process of researching products and themes for that layout, I happened to discover Egger-Bahn. A German company who formerly made HOn30 trains. There are several odd and quirky engines in their lineup, but one of the more odd is the Contractor's Diesel (#1004). So that I did. Other g...

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2: September 2009

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2. A blog about my working in SE scale. Sunday, September 6, 2009. Painted Top Wagon 7/8n2. Wagon is out of the paint shop. On the sides, there are actually 6 layers of paint (I think I over-do it sometimes with the dry brushing). I'm debating on if I want to do the railroad initials on the side or not. Worked on some more minor things on the top wagon -. You can see the difference between the natural wood and what I did to it. Saturday, September 5, 2009. The ruler on the left ...

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2: Chassis Update #2

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2. A blog about my working in SE scale. Thursday, March 25, 2010. Here's some progress shots of the chassis. And my first bolted joint. It's a little rough, but this one will be on the interior (unseen) so I have some room to practice before I get to the visible ones. And just for kicks I tried making a link-and-pin buffer coupler. It's very rough and I probably won't use it but it was amusing to try. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Friends and Fellow Modellers. It means the...

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2: Coach Chassis

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2. A blog about my working in SE scale. Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Being that I completed the basic form of the coach body and because I need to do some more planning for the coach interior, I started working on the chassis. I didn't want the body to get too far along before I began on the chassis because I'm trying to develop all of it kind of at once so that things get done on different parts instead of completely finishing one facet. The chassis is made from channel aluminum ...

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2: Current Blog

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Foggy Bottom Railroad 7/8n2. A blog about my working in SE scale. Saturday, April 30, 2011. I'm moving all my model railroading activities over to a single blog, Some Railroad You've Never Heard Of (Blog). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Friends and Fellow Modellers. Other gauges exist. In particular, anything skinnier than standard gauge is classified as "Narrow Gauge". Narrow gauge typically ranges from about 18" up to 36". So if "n2" means narrow 2 foot, what's the 7/8? It means the scale is 7/8 o...