I am going to attempt the impossible. Ready? I am going to plan out a project and give it a deadline and start and finish it in one day. This will be a first as every project to date has taken much longer than expected and has experienced "scope creep" much to my dismay.

This is a similar project to "Plussing Holliday". I have a Ripley model that was done last year before introduction to Burnsland and all the expertise here. I will define the scope here and collect all the parts, pieces and or supplies needed to complete it. Then, once a day can be dedicated to it, I will pull it apart, make the changes and put it back together before the bell strikes midnight. Here is the model as it stands today.



The changes will be:
1. Paint boiler, cab and tender in "correct" green colors
2. Paint wheels bright red
3. Paint pilot and headlight dark red.
4. Paint cab interior light green
5. Widen running boards to be straight and extend to smokebox
6. Install Westinghouse air compressor
7. Install roof hatch and paint roof black with red primer trim
8. Install straight handrails at boiler
9. Install u-shaped handrails at cab
10. Install whistle and pop valves
11. Remove back of headlight
12. Install copper steam lines
13. Install sand lines
14. Create a seat for Earl and Eddie
15. Remove coal load and create new deck for tender
16. Apply improved graphics
17. Install bell rope
18. Paint background of #2 number plate bright red
19. Paint cylinders

Fellow Burnslander, Johnas, and I are looking into having Trackside Details cast a polished brass stack cap. If we create this, is anyone else interested in one? G scale

This should result in a nice replica of the Ripley. The boiler is still too wide and sits too high, but only a highly trained eye would see this.

I still need to order some handrail stanchions before starting and I have to find the day. Should be fun.

Good luck on the timed model making!

"Longer than expected". Boy, that sounds familiar to any model maker! How many times have I said to myself I would meet a dead line for a model... Every weekend I think I'm gonna finish my Marsh but I end up picking at other models and stuff and before I know it, I'm 4 weeks behind!

You should do an hour update on the day you'll do it, make it a little fun (at least for us).

I agree, good luck on finishing in your allotted time. I never set deadlines on my hobbies if I have a choice. I deal with deadlines that are either "ASAP" or "yesterday" every single day at work so I don't want to deal with deadlines in my hobbies in my free time.

if you don't finish in a day, please give it some more time and don't rush the job.

You guys know the story too well. Don't worry Locoboy, if it isn't right, I won't push it to make a deadline. A problem that I usually have is that I get to a stopping point because I haven't ordered a part or because I never finished a graphic in the computer or something like that and so the disassembled model sits on th ping-pong table making it unusable for the family. It is mostly due to a lack of planning. This time the only process that really needs time is the sculpting putty used in the handrail conversion takes about 4 hours before it can be sanded. The paint dries quickly and the actual cutting and fitting really doesn't take that long. It is doable. Sam, I like your idea of the hourly posting for fun.

Modeling on a deadline, I have done it once and I had about 6 weeks. Should be interesting but Modeling is like theme parks never really quite finished so GOOD LUCK with that.


I do like the Idea of the hour by hour process though I'd take photo's now post later.

That would be the way. No loosing precious minutes

Definitely looking forward to this!

I agree, your report doesn't have to be real time the day-of. I'd take the photos, finish the model, and then write about it all later.

I think your Ripley looks nice, as-is.


I disagree. I don't have a "highly trained eye," but the proportional discrepancies are painfully perspicuous. I think you're making a good choice, doing a "Monster Garage" time-and-resources-limited reworking of this plastic object.

Yes.

Was this a Carolwood HL Ripley?? If not what engine was this originally?

Thanks
Rob

This was originally a Jupiter from Hartland. I changed the stack, domes, headlight and smokebox a while back.