There are some advantages of living in an apartment, but at least in mine, the ease of painting models isn't one of them. Our windows open only slightly due to the height of the building and the design, and we have no outside space to relocate to when it comes to this kind of task.

As a result, I had assembled a Tichy flat car, and there it sat for months, wanting paint. And naturally I sat by, also wanting to paint it.

Well, 

 The Mud Creek Beltline Railroad is coming along nicely. But, I have now added a cement plant to the layout and it is actually a "Cut in Half" building so that it will fit the space. 

 The issue with it so far as I can see, is getting the back half of the building to "seal up against the backdrop", there is a gap there... Not a big gap in the scheme of things, but still, I'd like to mate it right to the backdrop.

 Any suggestions?

Mark

I'm clearly in the fantasy railroad camp.  All I got to say about the subject is that I model a parallel universe in strict prototypical fidelity. By golly, It's my pike and I'll model it any way I durn well like. Still though I do try to improve my skills and to that end I've been exploring craftsman and laser kits and been having some fun.

The Train Room aka The mother in law room.  This room is 11.5' x 19.5' built on the back patio of the house.  The owner before me used it as an art studio.  I used it for storage at the time of the photos.  The room has no climate control and 2 doors with 2 types of windows on the East (Glass Door Sliding Door) and West (Normal Door) walls.  The north wall (Finished at this time) is a 2x4 stud wall with the back yard on the other side.  The south wall is the the house (Cinder Block wall).  You can see the slope in the ceiling fr

I'm moving my blogging from Blogger at http://garagerr.blogspot.com/ to here, as MRH has a built-in community of helpful readers. In short, I'm building a sectional shelf layout in N scale depicting the Boston and Maine in the transition era. 

Here are links to past posts on the old blog:

Let me qualify this by saying that I have NOT tried it yet, though I do intend to.

Pilot trucks on HO scale steamers bother me.  They don't do the job they are supposed to (guiding the engine into a curve) and instead flop around getting in the way and making it hard to get the engine on the track.  If only there was a simple way of centering them..

I need some advice. While the trackwork is progressing, I need to address the little mountain lake and the port area water.

Being colorblind (wore OD for many, many years) red/green dichromatic, I do see basic colors but want your suggestions on the colors to paint the bottom and sides of the lake and the "water" in the port area of the layout BEFORE I pour the instant water material.

A Norwegian class Di2 with a freight train on route from Rise to the coastal town of Grimstad in the south of Norway. The year is approximately 1965.