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MRH - Photo Backdrop Repository...

All, I have an idea that has grown from my own searches and those that are currently going on in the backdrop images thread.

With Joe & MRH's permission I'd like to start a thread (this one) as a MRH Backdrop Image Repository. Now there may need to be some finer details hashed out, and some rule set but the basic concept is to have MRH members post images for others to use on their respective layouts as backdrop images.

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Attaching lights to buildings

I recently purchased a couple of buildings. I also bought a few lights for them as well. What is the easiest and safest way to attach these lights to this building. Drill hole, insert wires, glue with same glue used to put building together? I will be using Ambroid Proweld to glue the building together. I don't plan on removing the lights in the future, but will be adding some interior LED's to the building.

Double-hung, Double-Paned Windows From Scratch - Part 2

As promised, here is the second part of my step-by-step process for building windows from scratch.

wiring BLMA signals

I am looking into wiring BLMA signals to twin coil switch machines. I am unsure if I can wire them direct to the switch machine. Most LED signals have a wire for every light which make it possible to wire to. What I need to know is is it possible to wire the signals direct to the twin coil switch machines??? Help please......

Standoff details can really make graphic buildings . . .

Not wanting to hijack the latest Iowa Interstate posting, but the Grimes Line superintendent noted on his new structure that standoff details were really going to help the printed graphics lumber company.  For anyone who is afraid (like I was) that printed graphics laminated to a building shape will make a flat and uninteresting structure - it doesn't have to be so! 

 

From Stagnant to Steaming: Revise, Refurbish, Expand & Finish an HO layout

Last month (May), a man contacted me through our shared Local Hobby Shop:  He had a 3'x16' HO layout that was half done.  He also had grandsons who are 7- and 8-years old and who really wanted to run trains with Grandpa.

The challenge was that, ever since being diagnosed with cancer a year ago, between the chemo and the medication he just didn't have the energy to continue work on the layout.  So he needed a strapping young man with the muscles and know-how to get the layout done and running well. 


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