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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fudge it. I'm running trains today since I missed going to the club yesterday and I'll be at a convention this coming Saturday. Here's every X72-class boxcar I own pulled by a custom F7. The white-sprayed car is a personal art car that I'm still deciding on.

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Furries, feathers, scalies and those with just skin, may I have your attention! I now have TWO of the HO scale slot car railroad crossings! If all goes well, then I'll put in the effort to bring a model train vs slot car setup to furry conventions next year!

Two rare HO scale railroad crossings for slot cars produced by Life-Like/Walthers in the mid to late 2000s. Both slot car pieces are connected to grey track adaptors to make the crossings compatible with Power-Loc style railroad tracks.

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SweetyCupcake COMMS OPEN @sweetycupcake99.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sketch commission for: @daender.bsky.social !! Thank you so much!!!ᕙ⁠(⁠＠⁠°⁠▽⁠°⁠＠⁠)⁠ᕗ

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OnlySoryu! @spartansoryu.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

Drawing for @NotDaender art raffle prize It's really cute that for the first time I draw a cute and soft husky! ☺️

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Details can make a difference: here are two basic and cheap "Spirit of '76" cabeese shells. However, through time, effort, and love, one caboose transformed into more detailed example that's on-par with the current standard plastic cabeese of today. You can do the same with regular art materials!

Two "Spirit of '76" cabeese, produced by Tyco in HO scale, on a display track. Both cars are marked "SLSF" for the St. Louis-San Francisco "Frisco" railroad. The left one is an unmodified earlier production run with metal ladders and basic metal handrails at its ends, along with minor fading/yellowing of its white plastic. The right one was modified by me and is a later run with more detailed plastic handrails and ladders, along with no signs of fading or yellowing.

The right one had its roof, trucks, and window trims painted silver, the roof grab rails painted red and blue, the side handrails and end handrail chains painted gold, the end handrail uprights painted white, the chassis painted matte white, and the wheel faces painted a rusty/dirty brown. The caboose on the right also has window glazing added by cutting up plastic packaging and gluing it behind the window openings with canopy glue.

The paints used were a Testors silver spray can (roof and truck), a Rust-Oleum matte white spray can (chassis/frame), Apple Barrel acrylic water-based paint markers in silver, brown, and blue (window trims, wheel faces, and roof grab rails, respectively), Gundam Markers in red and white (roof grab rails and end handrails, respectively), a Paint Marker "Liquid Gold" chrome paint pen (side handrails and end handrail chains), and a Rust-Oleum satin clear spray can to seal the colors afterwards. I also painted the inside of the caboose silver to give the interior some color, to hide the original red and blue paint that bleed through, and to prevent light from bleeding through the cheap plastic shell. A usual sign of good paint quality for plastic toys is not easily seeing light bleed through the plastic. Once the paint was done, Testors canopy glue was used to adhere the recycled clear packaging to the inside of the caboose to create window glazing.

The right caboose features upgraded metal wheels from Walthers and Kadee #148 metal whisker "standard" couplers with #212 Talg…

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today was a nice day for a birthday. It was chill, it wasn't overly stresfull, and I got to work on some model trains. Thanks to y'all for the birthday wishes! I absolutely appreciate them! <3

Five train cars I bought for myself. On top are two Conrail X72-class boxcars by Walthers. Below the boxcars are two covered hoppers, the brown Milwaukee, Racine and Troy is by Accurail and the orange one with dragon graffiti is by Roundhouse. In front is a Chicago Great Western flat car with two John Deere "Waterloo Boy" tractors, by Athearn.

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

During a NASCAR race, my ADHD kicks in at times and I notice cool things going on in the crowds. The most heartwarming thing I noticed was a young teenager trying to take photos with his camera of the race cars at full speed. 30 mins later he was receiving lessons from a professional photographer!

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Back to my shenanigans again! It's a nice and peaceful day of playing with model trains. Nothing too crazy today, just a BN train for the heck of it!

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Thicken Nugget (comms closed) @cowiie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

something something turns you into a reshiram in a small room #fatfur

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It's Ikky! (3 Slots Open!) @ikkypanda.hyper.wang · 31/08/2026

here's a finished YCH for @daender.bsky.social!

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here's a dump of all of the photos I took at the event! Besides giving the middle finger to two specific locomotives, it was a good event overall! I regret missing the last two locomotive gatherings at Spencer, so I wasn't letting a third one pass me by!

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Komi Sashimi 🔞 @fattysashimi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Do you recall that episode where Shiron eats too much and struggle flying ? No ? Is it just me ? Little challenge for the weekend, hope you like my animation <3

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And here's the silly result! My little locomotive met its real life counterpart at the America 250 locomotive gathering held at Spencer! I'm glad I brought it along as it also made many other people happy and they wanted to take pics of the two together!

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I've been sitting on these fancy brass "KarTrak" placards for years, and it was finally time to use them. My bicentennial Santa Fe SD45-2 #5704 is the first applicant. I'm very grateful someone recorded a close-up walkaround of the real thing so I could get the placard positions perfect! Stay tuned!

My Athearn Genesis HO scale EMD SD45-2 in Sante Fe bicentennial paint sits on my work desk with KarTrak placards from Tangent (left bag) and Rapido (right bag). I had both brands on-hand so I could determine which one had colors closer to the real ones used on recently restored ATSF 5704. The Tangent ones are printed on thin brass pieces. The Rapido ones are printed on plastic. IMO, the Tangent ones are crisper and more vibrant, but the Rapido ones were spares from a trio of covered hopper cars in my collection.

KarTrak was an early colored barcode system introduced in 1967 meant to automatically identify train cars as they passed by. It was abandoned in 1977 because keeping the placards clean enough to be identifiable was harder than anticipated due to many economic reasons and practical reasons.

I'm pointing to a paused FaceBook video of someone walking around the real 5704 and pointing to the KarTrak placard on my model 5704. The KarTrak placard is positioned accurately on the model's handrails to match the real one.

A close-up of my 5704's right side with the KarTrak glued to the handrail stanchion. To avoid damaging the model while I laid it on its side, I kept it contained in its plastic clamshell and left the foam stick behind the railing to avoid bending the uprights while I attached the placards. It's a lot easier to glue something when it's laying down than when it's standing up, as you're not fighting gravity. I applied a drop of superglue to the tip of a toothpick before lightly spreading it on the handrail upright and then placing the KarTrak placard with a small pair of pliers.

My Santa Fe 5704 is now ready for this weekend, and it better replicates the real one with its new KarTrak placards. The boxcar shells in the background are part of another project.

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's disappointing to see a model train company use non-human generated art for their anniversary car. It could be possible they hired a human artist who had zero knowledge of how trains work, but I think they went cheap. There are enough human train artists out there they could've chose instead!

The 80th anniversary boxcar design for Kadee. The art on the right side of the car looks suspicious.

The entire train looks worse the more you look at it.

The pilot wheels are connected together by a coupling rod and yet are also connected to the main driving wheel by another coupling rod??? Pilot truck wheels aren't normally connected together on steam engines and certain not connected to the driving wheel. The driving wheel is literally off of the rail.

The front wheels of the tender look like the pilot wheels of the locomotive but the rear wheels of the tender match the freight car behind it.

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A mostly chill day at the club! I ran my aquarium cars and some freight cars with auto racing loads, along with teaching a teenager how to solder a speaker into his steam locomotive (sorry, no pics).

My EMD BL2 in Western Maryland paint pulling my tropical fish car.

My shark transportation aquarium car and my Rapido special anniversary edition sleeper car.

My Cox "Championship Trail" flat car with race car hauler load and my Dale Earnhardt Sr flat car and trailer.

My TTX flat car with a Maersk pride container and a Toyota Motorsports car hauler followed by a Champion spark plugs boxcar.

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It'll be cool attending my first non-AC convention and I look forward to returning to Chicago for the first time in over 20 years. Hopefully I'll have time to hit-up a museum and possibly a model train store (lol) before the con! I hope to see my friends (and a very special bird~) this December!

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✨️Bleucan✨️➡️ MFF DD @bleucan.fish · 17/08/2026

Two of them

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A fun part of doing model railroading is that IT'S YOUR WORLD AND YOU CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT IN IT. Thus, Mauna is now canonical to my trains. C: The original STP stickers were unfortunately damaged when I removed the masking tape to paint the roof silver. I added numbers to the Porsche 917-30 too.

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Running these long flat cars takes a lot of patience and tinkering, but the payoff makes it worthwhile. The plow is finally united with my Milwaukee Road SD45s, and they look incredible together.

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I can't leave "okay enough" alone when it came to this "Bobber" caboose from Bachmann. It received painted wheel faces, window glazing (the cupola ones were hard to get right), and I painted the marker lanterns brass with spots of red and green to simulate the lens. A neat addition to my collection!

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THE PIG REVIVAL (Commissions Open!) @dirtboar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hey, is it just me or did it get really hot all of sudden? Belated thing for typhlosion day #dirtarts

two typhlosions (regular and hisuian) being very fat and pressing their bellies together
they are both looking at you
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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There's freedom in model trains if you don't care about accuracy and build goofy consists like this. The plow recently had its headlight installed and soldered in. I'm very pleased with how it came out! The caboose at the end is a new addition to my fleet, as I always wanted a Gorre & Daphetid.

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20 Years of Marie the Foxy! @bigladydragon.art · 06/08/2026

Completed commisison for @daender.bsky.social

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Speaking of electricity... last night's walk allowed me to spectate some wild lightning from an approaching storm!

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The next step of my slot car vs train idea: the actual slot cars! I scored this time capsule from 1991 in the form of two Mazda Miatas from Tyco. I have some Life-Like to Tyco adapters coming in the mail so I can utilize the crossovers included with the cars.

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Denak 🔜 FURUM @denak.tiggang.org · 02/08/2026

Sorry WRC commentators for making you confused about a tiger 😅🐯

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Smonker @smokeyokeydokey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Thank u @renyrarainius.bsky.social for this wonderful drawover :3c

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As soon as I saw this YCH, I *knew* I had to see a certain dragoness in it. Otto did a kicksss job on Elandra! CW: gas but I wanted to get a spicy cinnamon version for fun. XD

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@executivefailure.bsky.social graciously drew this wonderful blob face of Mauna on the final day of AC! It's so fun seeing blobs with an "oh crap" expression, as they realize just how far things have gotten out of hand. Thank you once again, and I hope we can meet again at another convention!

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Zaivurin @zaivurin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Reshiram

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's happening... but I need more pieces to truly make it work. I finally found that rare slot car train crossing and now I need to come up with a layout that'll work for conventions and train shows.

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm still in utter awe that @mainlinemojo.bsky.social drew this simply EPIC art piece of Elandra. It was an honor to have her drawn by you, to meet you at AC, and to pick this up in-person! I cannot stop admiring her because she just looks so... -perfect-~! She's sexy, intimidating, and alluring!

My crimson punk dragoness, Elandra, aiming her baseball bat over her shoulder and toward the viewer in a threatening manner. A toothy smile and a clenched fist add to her intimidating intentions. She's wearing a spiked grey-black leather jacket, black short jeans, and black fishnets. Her clothing is torn by her natural body spikes and her noticeably fat ass. The artwork was done on paper using ink and markers.

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I was supposed to be helping with inventory but I ended up running trains to put on shows for crowds of visitors! Here's my beloved B&O Chessie SD50 hauling matching Chessie freight while a friend's B&O EM-1 hauls coal. Baltimore and Ohio freight of different eras!

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Soft Foxxo @softfoxxo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"Chiara's Beach Episode" Commission #425 - @gladiwrites.bsky.social (featuring @daender.bsky.social , @borealhaze.bsky.social , and more!) #furryart #art #fatfur #fatfurry #bbw #ssbbw #ssbhm

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Eddy Belly @eddybelly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Dragon from the cover of Twenty-One Pilots's Scaled and Icy but fat #eddybellyart #fatfur #fat

The Dragon from the cover of Twenty-One Pilots's Scaled and Icy but standing and fat

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I hope whoever won this train set really treasures it. A LOT of time, energy, and effort went into making that a reality...and that's not counting the ~60 pieces of track that came with it. Hours spent polishing the rails, lunch breaks spent painting, and evenings spent tuning trucks. One of a kind.

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KG 🏳️‍⚧️- COMMS OPEN @keij.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sketch comm for @daender.bsky.social

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KG 🏳️‍⚧️- COMMS OPEN @keij.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Sketch comm for @daender.bsky.social

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KG 🏳️‍⚧️- COMMS OPEN @keij.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Sketch comm for @daender.bsky.social

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Nyil @nyil.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Commission for @laurellavandulla.bsky.social in loving memory of Moredena. Thank you for giving me the chance to work on this <3

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I wasn't expecting to see a 1936 Marx tin train set running today, but here I am!

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daender / Mauna Pau'ole "trains and fatties" 🔜 MFF @daender.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I'm really, really, really glad I was able to commission this wonderful artist at AC! He made Mauna look so gosh-darn adorable!!! It's so nice to see him drawn with crayons, as it perfectly suits the gentle, innocent, and friendly vibes I want him to have!

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⚡Ryshokka Syre⚡ @ryshokka-syre.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Art fight attack for @drakeraynier.bsky.social <3 [ #furry #furryart #pokemon #artfight ]

Digital drawing of an anthro reshiram kneeling down, wearing only fishnets on her top and legs.

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Varen, Not the Fox God @fffandever.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"Oh, you're bringing more cold drinks already? Thank you. But, you know, you can stay for a bit, if you'd like. I don't mind admirers." -- A commission for @camuushamuu.bsky.social Azure is very cute. Big, Soft, and Friend-shaped, they posess the perfect form. this was a fun one.

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kym3110 @kym3110.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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ゼフィ @zephy03.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

デブ顔描くのたのしくてついつい落書き

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