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How to: Color materials for a scrap pile (or other uses)
If you've been following along with the progress on my Klemptner Bros salvage yard you will see that I've just installed the scrap metal pile. Member Rick Reimer (ON30guy) asked how I colored the scrap so I thought that I would share my process. I will say that I arrived at this process through experimentation so much of my scrap ended up being scrapped!
Here's a shot of the pile of scrap:
Detailing added to the CNW - Peninsula Div.
The following are some pictures of the detailing I have added to three areas on the CNW
Lessons learned from hobby fears
My recent victory over a long-held fear of adding ditch lights has prompted me to think about a number of similar concerns I've had over the years and, once they were behind me, the great rewards I discovered hiding on the other side. In hopes of encouraging others who might be letting their own phobias get in the way of their hobby enjoyment as I too often do, here are a few of my fears and the lessons they taught me:
Painting Track - An experiment on the BNML
I was thinking it was time to try painting track!
Silly me.
This is a section of prototype rail on the CN Letelleir Sub.
My trial segment can be seen in the first comment...
HO Scale PO Cabin Interlocking Tower
To All: I scratch built this HO scale PO Cabin interlocking tower for the First Coast Model Railroad Society's layout in Jacksonville, Florida. It controls entrance to/exit from the Port of Portlandia on the layout. I painted and weathered the structure. Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.
Making a HO crosswalk
I had some trouble figuring out how to make a German crosswalk that looked correct in HO scale.
Here's my prototype on the workbench before I replicate this for real on the layout.
I made this with 5 mm correction tape between two strips of masking tape to get straight, rectangular ends of the stripes.
TV antennas?
Anyone who was a kid in the 50's probably remembers the forest of TV antennas in many neighborhoods, after a typical southerly winter gale we'd walk around counting how many were bent over :>) . So I'm wondering how folks modeling the 50's deal with them in photo backdrops? It's impossible to go out and take of photo of them now so do they find old photos or do they add them to current photos with photo shop, or ?
I like election years . . .
No matter who loses the current US elections, I will win. In a few days, regardless of voter preferences, there will be a huge number of orphaned plastic yard signs, which I have discovered make light, strong, easy to work scratch building material. The roofs of several of my large industrial buildings are made from signs left over from a previous election year. With owner approval, I plan to stock up again!
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