I am getting ready as assemble a laser cut barn kit. The manufacturer is American Model Builders. The manufacturer recommends airbrushing the model and using a solvent based paint. I would like to paint the barn some shade of red, but there are so many variations of the color red. Has anyone assembled a barn and painted it a red color and if so what did you use?

I am planning on assembling my first laser cut structure. My question is, I was told to prevent any warpage of the structure that I should glue two horizontal wood strips on the backside walls of the structure. Is this a valued suggestion?

I was talking to Michael Rose the other day (about model railroading of course) and he got me thinking about my Misti Mountain on my layout and how it is out of scale; that is, it's not really a mountain.  You see, it's only 27 inches high.  If you do the math of 27" where 1" equals 87" in HO you get 27 x 87 = 2,349 inches and if you divide that by 12 you get 195.75 feet which is hardly a mountain or as Michael said it's more of a mole hill.