I got my butt kicked at work all week. My job often requires me to learn as I'm troubleshooting. I come home brain dead sometimes as I'm learning all kinds of new things on the fly.
So I managed to buy an airless sprayer to try to get the basement ceiling painted.
I also packed some rolling stock into boxes and moved them under the test layout for when the painting occurs.
I printed my first version of the ingot buggy. Pictures attached. I over exposed the pictures because it was black filament and rough lighting. I basically need to adjust the holes for the truck mounts (they're hidden but they're too small), stop the coupler arms from rubbing on the car body, add details to the design, and make bigger ingot molds. The molds I printed are a bit small but I based the design off of what I saw when I worked in the ingot mold foundry instead of working from prints. I took this version of the buggy around the layout for about a half hour while I swapped trucks on a Menards boxcar and then finished my beer. Nothing bad happened! So that's good. It seems like a got a good foundation to start with. Final colors and design are a long way off. Disregard all the hooplah on the test layout haha
I got colored filament so I can 3D print red/yellow ingots. There will still be painting involved but this is a start. I used to plan on adding lights to the cars so the ingots glowed but I have decided instead to pursue a few working overhead cranes so I can strip the ingots (or I'll build an ingot stripper, we'll see).
So that's about it. Machines are still broken at work and I'm still not a hydraulics/electronics expert so I don't know how much I'll work on things next week. Might just come home and let my brain cool 
