Scenery - Structures
Grass Help
Followed the directions and may not be doing something correctly for the static grass applicator. First of all, the Scenic material is kind of clumpy in the container and doesn't seem to flow freely. I am mixing two colors to achieve the look I want. Is there something I have to do to break apart this material?
Owens Corning Foamular 150 Pink Foam No Longer Available?
Not too long ago I picked up my 2" pink foam at Home Depot. Not so today. They no longer carry. Lowes doesn't carry. It doesn't seem anyone in my region carries it. Menards back east shows they carry, but maybe no longer.
Not too happy at the moment as I was in the middle of building up a module. I have one point of contact to reach out to on Monday, but not holding my breath.
What's in your paint box?
When I first began this hobby in the 60's I quickly discovered the superiority of Floquil paints and learned to paint with them. When I went off to college, I messed around with oil paints enough to learn basic principles of mixing and brushwork. (I also learned that music was a much better career path for me!) I even used oils on a few models that still look good today.
<45 years pass>
Swift Creamery from DPM kit
On my Bagnell Branch there was one industry spur in Eldon that had a Cities Service dealer and a Swift Creamery on the Mopac. Many years ago I'd built the DPM Cutting Scissors Factory for a prior layout pretty much 'out of box' but when I needed a creamery for Eldon the building had the right size footprint so I added the wood dock and metal roof over it from Evergreen styrene. The small white extension was just added to breakup the building and add some interest.
Layout update 2/18/2015
I have been working on the Prr signal, wiring up accessories in Conway and more.
"Boulder Ridge" Free-moN Module (2'x6')
So it begins.
Never built a layout, never even ran an engine on a layout. Don't know a whole lot about nothing and much about some.
After several years of reading, searching and nail biting for the opportunity to have my own fairytale world where I could manipulate the caricatures and play God in sculpting a perfect landscape, I hit paydirt; N scale Free-moN.
Old School build
Hello everybody. Have been a member for a while but am just now posting. A little background about myself. I have been seriously model railroading since about 1974 or 1975, and on my second layout. My first layout was poorly designed and in a limited space. I used it to learn techniques and to get trains running, but it had no operational opportunities. I have spent the past three years getting the basement train room finished, bench work built, track laid and some basic scenery land forms done. I finally decided to take a break and do a little modeling.
Richawn RR V2 - Landscape pictures under my new LED lighting
I just installed one of the four LED lighting strips on my layout as mentioned in my thread ( http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/21248 ) and took a few shots under the new lighting. To my eye the colors look more pleasing and the details seem to show better than under my old halogen lighting. If you are using a computer you can click on the image to get a larger view.
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Old buildings with grain of wheat and 12V bus
I have a few older built-from-scratch buildings I'd like to incorporate on my layout. They have grain of rice/wheat bulbs in them.
Since my new layout is DCC and I have buses running underneath, I have an accessories bus that is hooked up to a regulated 12V wall wart. Small things like building lights and effects boards run off this bus. These things are LED-based. These items have controls in them to take care of power, whether regulators, diodes, resistors, etc.
Circus comes to town
Come on, everyone loves the circus right ? After watching Ken Patterson's videos I started thinking about scenery and photography differently. I also make videos, not as good as Ken's but I try my best.
https://www.youtube.com/RPare
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