Recent content by Bill Nelson

I have figured out the changes the last update made in my in my graphic converter program, and can convert phone photos to a format Zealot seems to tolerate, time consuming, but reliably doable so here is the most recent photo dump. The Magnolia...

I have got the resizing of photos figured out Have a big dump of photos of the progress on the Bugtustle loop since my last installment there may be some duplication, can't remember where I was putting in the wye, which crosses the big Bugtustle...

My current plan is to take my sawmill town of crooked creek, and move it, hopefully temporarily into the garage at the lake. I hope to build a hobby barn at the lake, with room for a wood shop, boat storage, hobby work benches and desks, a sizable...

plans to build a separate workshop for trains and tools at the lake will likely have to wait till we can sell the farm. the house is as rough as homemade sin, vut it is sitting on 21 acres, less than a mile as the crow flies from the center of...

I have mainly been working on my RR since the last post, and for the last 14 days or so have been on an epic road trip from houston Texas to the west coast and back for my Niece's daughter's wedding north of LA.. we saw four of my wife's childhood...

those sails are vacuformed, not injected moulded, which lets them get a thinner profile, but at the cost of detail. cutting them out is a pain, painting them to good effect is difficult. I always try my best, sometimes end up just doing the standing...

it has been a while since I had my desk top fired up. we are back in Texas, after a short trip to TN turned into a long one, with some possible covid exposure back in Texas, I founf the magnolia will fit in the back of the 2017 expedition. it is going to...

one big question, how far is the top of the tortoise from the trow bar tortoise from the throw bar? this design, with the materials provided works best with 1/2 inch plywood , and cork roadbed, so the throw bar is less than an inch from the top of...

I keep a canoe , a kayak , paddles, and and life vests at the dock. my last boat, which was unsteady due to insufficient ballast, and insufficient displacement to cary more, the wife was out in a kayak . this one got it's first watertest in the tup at...

have resolved my technical issues, can no longer post from the I pad, or transfer photos from it to the desk top, but I found an easy way to resize pictures from my phone The Bugtustle station , and the beginning of the upper business district...

still can't get the old I pad to talk to my desk top. ut did stumble across a easy way to re size my phone pictures to make them Zelot friendly The magnolia with it's sail paterns, made of heavy contractor's paoer The stern art on the transom...

there will ba an aisle between the door to the outside, and a door to the garage. I have made a bit of progress since the last post. Zealot is almost impossible to navigate on my phone. I was posting stuff from my ancient I pad, that takes photos that...

The sail winch was about $25.00 off eBay. The only downside was it didn't come with instructions, so I had to experiment. I did find that if rigged incorrectly, the sail winch is stoic enough to break 14 lb test fly fishing line . The plan is to fill most of the room with trains, leaving...

Some progress My other project , a scratch built R\c sailboat , covered in a thread in the R/C section .

Have worked on the lateral stays . And their scratch built dead eyes. The lower deadeyes are built onto clevises that are pinned into the chain plates with brass pins . With a hole drilled into the end . Soft copper wire. Run through the hole. And wrapped around the end of the pin, acts...