Scenery - Structures
Time to prepare for next winters Pine tree harvest
Hi!
Depending on where you live, it´s within a month or two time to start planning for next winter Pine tree harvest.
I made a tutorial of the process.
Ice House
In looking at models of ice house a come across this one and I was wondering how it worked.
Specifically where did they store the ice and how did it get on the platform? Also what is the cupola for? link is below. Thanks in advance
https://www.walthers.com/brookside-ice-house-kit-5-3-8-x-9-quot-13-6-x-22-5cm
Shingling in N Scale
Sometime back I believe I had posted a question about finding shingles for N scale structures. For lots of reasons I never got any further than that with the project. On our recent trip to MN my wife found N scale shingles from GCLaser. These things were great and I definitely recommend them. Easy to use.
Salvaging structures and scenes from past layouts
Shed in scene on past layout:
Cut out section from previous layout. I damaged this section while trying to make it fit into the module,
Gordon Gravett books on grass, trees - excellent!
Not much layout work in the last week or two - due to lots of work, plus happy stuff like graduations. But I have finally gotten a few books on grass and trees by Gordon Gravett - generally not available in the US but by far the best I've found.
Blackening Phosphor Bronze wire
Hi,
Do any of you here have any experience with blackening phosphor bronze wire?
I have some that I need to do this to for a project I'm working on.
Thanks.
commuter station sheds
Hi, has anyone come across anything resembling these station sheds seen all over on commuter railroads? I was searching on walthers, even ebay and not finding anything. I would need a lot of these so scratch building is not looking too terribly appealing!
Cheer,
Rob
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