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What's on your Workbench? - August 2015
Ok, time for a new what's on your Workbench. I know it's August and there won't be much modeling happening, but on those hot or rainy days there always seems to be a couple of spare hours. So let's see what you got.
Edited Note: There was some confusion because I named the thread wrong. It has been corrected.
Bernd
And the money goes round and round
So, there is a sponser of MRH magazine that runs a small store near me (mostly mail order). I just called him up and spent some of my ill gotten gains from more writing for MRH, so some of his sponsership money has completed the full circle! (The train club I am a part of gets a discount too, so I can spend more).
Reminds me of when I was a young man, I used to babysit for a family round the corner. And he was my barber, so some of that money went round and round too.
Photo post test
Scene from Waterbury CT on the New Haven RR circa 1947.
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Photo by Harry Lang 1947.
It worked!
Is there a particular size / resolution / pixel that the photo needs to start out at in order to upload it? I tried to upload some secions of my layout and it wouldn't take. I shot them at 12 Megapixels. I am guessing that is too large to upload?
NScale.net: the dreaded 404
Been trying all day to get on the nScale.net site without success; the homepage simply would not load.
Just a few minutes ago I got the dreaded "404" message, which then morphed into a host web server page saying site was no longer available.
Anyone know if this is just a prolonged interruption due to a server being down? Or are they moving to a new server?
New Hobby Shop Boise Idaho!!
I am always seeing notifications of hobby shops closing and how the hobby is dying. This is not one of those posts!
Last Thanksgiving a new hobby shop opened in Boise Idaho, which is in need of a good model railroad shop. The format of the shop is to bring back the old Hardware and Hobby Shop format. He is starting small, but planning big things. He would like to move in the next year to a place ten times the shop he has now, but it will all depend on support of his store.
So, if you are in the area, please stop in and check it out!!
Request for photos of East Boston, from Battery Park
I'm looking for an individual to take a set of panoramic photos with an SLR camera, normal perspective/ distance, not zoomed in, from "Battery Wharf" in Boston, Mass., across the harbor toward East Boston.
The left side of the photo set starts at the end of the Coast Guard pier and panned to the right, to about the 3 to 4 O'clock position of the photographers right side. The Photo's will be used as a railroad backdrop for my layout.
Tangent Scale Models - ALLAGASH 70-ton welded gondola now on sale!
Hi everyone,
Just received the official announcement from David Lehlbach at Tangent Scale Models.
For those of you that might be interested, Tangent's first freight car offering featuring a proto-freelanced railroad is for an Allagash 70-ton welded gon. The cars are for sale now, alongside all of the other available road names. Great job David!
For a look, here is the link to the Tangent site.
https://www.tangentscalemodels.com/product/allagash-spruce-green/
Mike Confalone
Testor's Dullcote
What is recommended for a flat spray other than Testor's Dullcote? I bought some Matte finish spray from another well-known craft supplies manufacturer but then read somewhere that their Matte finish wasn't really the same as Dullcote's flat clear. Any thoughts on the matter?
I don't even know what to say.
Over the years, YouTube has allowed us to follow along as modelers of all skill levels build their layouts and show us "how to do it." With that, you also get to see the idiosyncrasies of the people themselves. To be frank, most are rather bland, but you watch because you like to see the trains and perhaps get a tip to use on your own layouts.
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