Scenery - Structures
Kitbash Atlas Lumber Yard
After a couple of moves and layout re-builds, I still have one un-finished kitbash that remains on the back burner. In the modeling press prior to 1990, there was an article that showed how to use 3 Atlas HO scale lumber yard kitss to build a complex with 2 lumber yards on one side of the tracks and one on the other with a millwork room spanning over the tracks. It may have been an Art Curren project but I can't seem to find the article. I am looking to finally finish this project adding the roof top details and fencing etc.
MP Scenery Products Vendor in the USA
I was asked for this info by MRH so I thought it would be ok to post on my blog.
Colorado Front Range March 2017 Update
We are finishing up the Sugar Mill tracks and an over view of some of the operation that will be done at the mill. Some new tool review. We will start scenery in April for this area. Hope you enjoy this months update.
Mike
Realistic power pole wire?
I’m getting WAY ahead of myself as I’m in the track laying phase and not scenery construction, but I’ve been thinking about an approach to modeling power lines. Specifically, modeling power lines that hang realistically. I’ll need to model power lines on my layout and I want the actual lines to hang like the real thing – not dead straight like many applications I’ve seen by other modelers.
How to Model eroded Cobbles under Tarmac
This week's video on tarmac uses Tamiya texture paints to get the tarmac effect.
Turntable control
I got a killer deal on a Diamond Scale turntable kit, and it came with the optional manual crank control. Now, I have the opportunity for another killer deal on a used PTC III turntable controller with the rotary switch control panel, minus the stepper motor and some of the wiring.
I'm reaching out to the collective here to see if acquiring the PTC III is worth the time and effort. Anyone have any experience with it, good, bad, or indifferent? It sounds like it's a rather foolproof and accurate way to index a turntable and control it.
Mike in CO
12 episode TOMA build | 3'X5' | Old Bay District
Ok so for the past few years I have made static models for myself. My RR per say has always sat in storage as I do not have the room at home to build a large layout.
So I recently noticed this TOMA movement and realized it would be much like my planned 3X5 movement. The 3X5 is like more cowbell in the band. An extra foot each way give more room for my little land of plenty.
Please enjoy and possibly participate in this thread.
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Colorado Front Range---- Longmont Sugar Mill
Got a chance to get some mockups done for the Great Western Sugar mill in Longmont done here is how the scene is working out. I hope to have a video on it later this month.
Mike
Another structure, and a new FB page for my layout
I've created a new FB page to make discussion and sharing of my modeling easier, and create a kind of permanent repository for lots of photos. I updated my own blog with some of the reasons for creating the page:
http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2017/03/new-facebook-page.html
The new FB page is here:
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