Scenery - Structures
Great Find at Menards
Found this little 1/43 Plymouth truck at Menards for $5.00! After some modifications I have a pretty decent looking vehicle for my On30. All I done was add a wood flatbed/rails, wood sideboards, scuffed up paint/weathered and add some junk in bed. Not bad for five bucks and about an hours worth of time.
Great Kit Assembly Video
This is a great video on assembly of a model. Please note that all parts are painted. I do not mask edges but scrape paint off with exacto knife after painting but this is each to there own.
Side Projects While Building Locomotive Machine Shop
Been doing some little stuff to keep me from burning out on the major task of building the locomotive machine shop. Weathered my little side rod loco and built some workbenches for the shop.
New construction vehicles?
Is anyone familiar with the new excavators being offered by Promotex?
Are they actually HO?
Who Makes them?
Lightweight rocks
Many years ago, I started casting rocks using Plaster of Paris. Lately, I have been casting rocks with Lightweight Hydrocal to save some weight. (A couple dozen rocks can add a lot of weight to a portable layout.) Most recently, I have tried using Lightweight Spackle in regular rock molds. It came out surprisingly well.
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