AKA, what is Benny up to?

And we know with the Bowie Station out the door, Benny is up to SOMETHING!!

Indeed - I've jumped into the signaling pool, feet first!

Hello all. This post will be ongoing and include the slides that I used at my latest clinic on the use of Gatorfoam® (GF) and model railroading. If you GOOGLE search for "Modeling with Gatorfoam" you will also find links to the manufacture's website and some of my other posts. I plan on adding to this post, daily if possible. The last attempt I made ended up not uploading and I lost an hours worth of work.

Tip: To avoid losing data I am writing in MS Word and copying and pasting into this blog.

To All: I took the suggestion of some of you bloggers and until the  photos are exhausted I will follow with four more photos each day on #3.  Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. louis Rail Group Layout

After being grounded by a torn muscle I spent some time playing with the layout webcam, printing out various shots and gluing them together to make a panoramic view.

A web search led me to the Hugin software http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ and I found it reasonable easy to use.

After setting up my EOS 60D in the center of the layout room I made a couple of shots and this is the 2nd try with the SLR:

Slide 7 This is the GF I picked up from my supplier, all cut to width x 8’ long. Dave Myers www.gatorfoam.net Currently he only ships up to 48”, as longer lengths are too expensive to safely ship. I was lucky enough to be close (NY to VT via ferry) and able to pick my ‘kit’ up from him. Notice the vertical Honeywell filtering fan. I run this 24 / 7 and it helps stop dust from settling on the layout.

PART #1:

The bare area where Iron Mountain will be built. One of the patterns and the .060" styrene base to be used for the town and roads. This is were the 4' x 8' sheets will come in handy. Additional road work and scenery work.

Richard

Laying the roads in town. I will put tracing paper over this to make a pattern. Then that will be transferred to the styrene

Model animation—bringing models to life—adds enormously to the interest and enjoyment of any layout or individual model! In this installment I want to touch on more “points” on lighting and LEDs—likely more than you’ll ever want to know!

Following up the last post, I've added plaster cloth above the tunnels, and started on rockwork nearby.  Lots of photos, again!

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2013/03/rocks-in-my-head.html