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  • brownbr said:

    These lubesters are rated PG: Pre-Grime

    Hah! Excellent job.
  • Nice job on the lubesters.
  • Pete did a great job on that tractor Randy, it looks fantastic. Thanks for sharing it.
    Nice work so far on the "P.G" lubster's Bryan, cant wait to see your next steps.
  • Liking the Sinclair sign…
  • At first the orange took me back a bit, but the noggin kicked in and remembered the brighter colors in some stations....the BP badging is outstanding....Nicely Done...
  • Thanks all. These are great little additions...and now rated G.

    Art, you are right about the colorful lubesters. A quick search gave me the color ideas on these. Ken, I should have thinned the paper on the Sinclair sign a bit more. Oh well.

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  • Nice grime Bryan. I especially like the yellow lubster. Randy
  • Put little rivet heads in the corners and it will look like a metal plaque type sign…
  • Even better now that they are weathered.
  • What Ken said...just make it into a porcelain sign
  • Love the paint scheme on the narrow body yellow/red lubester.
  • Hats off to Karl for the absolute cutting-edge modeling of those soda bottles. Just when we thought there was nothing new, a whole new world opens. Well done Brett!

    We need some better-looking cats! And dogs!
  • The O scale Double Cylinder Mill engine.

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  • I really like the coloration of this engine......nicely done....
  • Exceptional!
  • Thanks guys. This was really a fun kit
  • looks great!
  • Looks great Jim, so well put together and a great paint job on the engine.
    The concrete base also looks 'just right'.
  • Nice work
  • It looks operational.
  • brownbr said:

    It looks operational.

    all these machines look operational. they're awesome!
  • Thanks everyone. It's impressive how well all the parts fit together. Great kit.
  • Fantastic job!
  • I have long admired the O Scale Mill Engine, but I model in HO, so when the 3D Printed kit came out in HO Scale I jumped at the opportunity to get it. After downloading and printing the instructions from the SW website, I carefully read through them several times to get an understanding of what is involved to build this kit. They are very thorough, but was most helpful were the illustrations and name of each part. I also printed some photos of previous builds of the O Scale engine for illustration.

    There are a lot of very small parts with this kit, and the instructions call for patience when building it to let adhesives thoroughly dry before proceeding to the next section. I'm not the most patient person in the world, but over the past several days I followed the instructions and worked through this kit.

    The parts fits together nicely, but I found after priming and painting some parts I needed to enlarge a few holes and scrape some paint off some parts to help them fit again.

    In any case here is my HO Scale Mill Engine. After seeing is in photographic enlargement I see all my mistakes, but it is what it is now as it's completed, except for the piping, which I will install once I find a home for it.
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  • Outstanding! Take a pic of it in the palm of your hand so everyone can appreciate how small this mill engine is!
  • Tom, great job with that. Such a detailed and highly involved model. HO being so small, this really is amazing. I have never seen such a highly detailed piece of machinery in HO scale. Great job.
    Yes the reamer set to open holes is a great tool to have with these 3D details.
    Would also love to see a pic of this in the palm of your hand.
  • Great work !! In HO ?? serious...
  • Good idea! Here is it in my hand. This was a fun kit to build and the detail even in this small scale is outstanding.
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  • This looks so good. Especially when you see how small it is. Great job.
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