Oregon Portage Railroad Oregon Pony

[Scratchman]

Thanks guys, for your comments and input

Gordon Birrell

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[Ray Dunakin]

Marvelous work! A magnificent model, of a delightful prototype. I saw the Oregon Pony the last time I was in the Portland area, about 8-9 years ago. I have a few questions for you...

1. How did you make the gears?

2. On the photo of the unpainted water tank, I noticed that the hatch cover is red with white spots. Are the spots some kind of texturing technique?

3. Is this an operating model or a static display?

[Scratchman]

Ray, all of my models are static. The gears are made up of individual square strips of styrene glued onto a core made from styrene. The red part on the water tank lid  is a 1:12 doll house plate on top of a steel washer topped out with a casting from Ozark Miniatures. I will use any thing that works on my models. (BTW) I enjoyed your web page.

Gordon Birrell

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[Scratchman]

Here are two more photos of the rest of the engine parts. I will post more after the last of the detail is finished.







Gordon Birrell

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[Ray Dunakin]

Stunning!

Another question: How do you make the pipe fittings (elbows, valves, etc.)? Or do you buy them?

[Scratchman]

Ray, all of the pipe work and pipe fittings are built out of K&S tubing. The four valves are from Trackside Details part# TD 115 and  TD 47.

Gordon Birrell

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[TRAINS1941]

Gordon,

Wow that is just a beautiful piece of workmanship!!!  Another great model by you.

Jerry

[Scratchman]

This model is now finished. Here are four more photos.









Gordon Birrell

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[finescalerr]

Most satisfactory, Gordon. Yet another exquisite masterpiece. -- Russ

[Frederic Testard]

Gordon, thanks for the additionnal pictures. This is a fabulous model, once again.

[Ken Hamilton]

Wow, Gordon...the finished photos are wonderful.  The atmosphere this model
projects is enough to make anybody smile with delight.  It's a pleasure to look at.

The "funnest" part of scratchbuilding is breaking down full-size objects into simple
shapes and faithfully replicating them in miniature using anything that looks right.
You've done that again flawlessly.

Thanks for the inspiration.

[TRAINS1941]

Gordon

Ditto to what Ken said above.  He really said it all.  Looking forward to the next project??

Jerry

[Chuck Doan]

Just spectacular! What a neat prototype. So elemental.

[rslaser]

What is there to say other then FANTASTIC.
rich

[lab-dad]

spectacularly awesomely super dooper!
Love all the SBS info too!
-Marty