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| The 2 SD22ECO locos I'm building for a customer. |
So what been going on lately with me?
-Yardwork: it seems like it never ends around here. My grass is terrible and full of weeds but its green because of all the rain we've had. It seems that we have had storm after storm the last couple of weeks. Had a nasty one yesterday and now the yard is calling to get up all the branches all over it!
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| The storm that came through yesterday. It was a doosy! |
-Deck work: My deck was looking quite old and unstained. I decided to get the Restore covering from Rust-oleum. Looks really good but I need to put one more coat on it but I cannot get it done because of all the rain. It needs a good day to dry. Its hard work going on but it looks 100 times better.
-9th anniversary: My wife and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary yesterday. She's the best wife and mom than I could have ever asked for.
Now trains:
I'm still working on that list of all the things I need to work on this summer. That will be out soon. I did the show up in Timonium this past weekend. Sold several things. Norm Wolf joined me up there as a last minute fill in. Kevin Olson who usually sells with me could not make it down.
Heard about a multicolored textured paint by Rust-oleum somewhere in my travels on the internet. Cannot remember what they used it for, so on a recent trip to Home Depot I picked some up. I was looking for the perfect weathering inside of open hoppers. I have a few aggregate hoppers on the layout and I usually mask the edges of the hopper and spray a primer brown in them. So with this stuff, I do the same. It takes a bit to dry and comes out of the can quick so be prepared. I thought they gave it a good weathered look. It looks to me like spray on sandpaper. You could also use it on gondolas.
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| A RF&P stone hopper. Gives a nice used looking inside. |
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| A VMID stone hopper |
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| Another VMID stone hopper. These are made out of shortening a Walther 2 bay Greenville hopper. |
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