A short video of the animated watertower on Spiderfield, my scenic'd Timevaver layout. Here you can see how I build the watertower.

Working on water texture for my next video here are some sample. Let me know what you think. I did over 10 test, this is the best four of the test. Two are rivers, one is a pond, and the last is harbor or ocean. All are on test blocks 4x4 inch the ocean is on a 5.5x5.5 inch

Mike

River two photo 1

When I converted my DCC system from Digitrax to NCE in September, I decided to completely do away with the LocoNet system, which included my Logic Rail LocoNet fast clock.  I don't have any signals or anything else connected to LocoNet, so that was an easy decision.  My idea for the fast clock replacement was to use something else that wasn't dependent on or linked to my DCC system.  At first, I was planning to use the JMRI fast clock on my computer and eventually purchase the Iowa Scaled Engineering fast clocks.

I have put aside one of my 1'x7' sections of my layout for a yard. What would be a good setup that would allow as many tracks with as much length as possible while still being double ended? If possible I would also like a small engine storage area and this may be stretching room for the small atlas turntable (all I can afford). The switches can but right up against the edge of the section as more tracks will continue away from it. I look forward to any ideas as I am hoping to buy any extra switches and flextrack I will need and lay track this weekend.

Does anyone know of a company that makes/sells a mini vac for cleaning the layout buildings etc.? So far the only thing I've found are attachment tool(s) for a Eureka or other full size vacuum. I'm looking for a small, hand-held, rechargeable tool to get dust and cobwebs (some of the spiders have taken over the brewery on my layout) off buildings and trackwork without sucking up people etc.

I know that Radio Shack sold one many years ago, but they are out of business her in Carlisle, PA. If you know of a vac or a good alternative, let me know.

This blog entry has taken me the better part of four months to compile & compose, as there isn't very much information on this locomotive class available on the internet. I've only encountered bits & pieces, and a few scraps of information here & there.

Here's my current design project, approaching completion.

This time, it's a specialty car for the Steel mill modelers.  This is a 300 ton, 12 axle,  Reichard "Bottle Car", used to carry molten steel.

The car was designed in CAD, then the pieces were 3D printed in UV cured resin material.

I'm still working on the end platform details, including handrails and brake gear.

Dunstan

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The water surface is made from toilet paper. Tutorial is available here (below, previous post) in my blog.

Most of the work inside the salvage yard has been completed and I wanted a little change in jobs so I started doing landscaping outside of the yard by the back gates.  The back gate is the entrance that will be used when pulling and dropping cars.

I started the process by painting the ground dirt brown and then sprinkling different colors of ground foam.

This is a view of what the back entrance looks like: