I wasn't sure where to post this, so I am here for a start. I have an Ameri-town Kit that I purchased last summer. It is NIB. I was going to start to assemble it and I noticed that some of the walls are bowed. Do you guys get this a lot? What steps do you take to glue this kit together to keep the force on the wall from snapping the seams apart when glued. That is if I can get the bow out of it.

Here is what I am thinking.

1) Using a heat gun to straighten the walls. How could that be done?

Even though I don’t run passenger equipment on any regular basis, I wanted to have an old station for my layout, it has seen better days, bit of modernization but retaining the old charm of days gone by. There are many station kits available to suit the design requirements, however a winter project with a little more involvement was what I wanted to get into. For inspiration I chose a CNoR third class station like one sitting in a field just a mile down the road here in Emo, Ontario. This, the old Barwick Station, was a perfect candidate.

In my blog, on page 19, I describe a lighting project I'm working on.

As can be seen from code and description, 14 LEDs will be used, with two on each of seven pins. Assuming 18-20 mA each with a 470 ohm resistor per pair, this would exceed the 200 mA total for board. As I am anything but an electronic whiz, what would be the minimum resistor I would need to drop total amperage below that total?