I don't like the windows in the New River Mining kit.

I've tried Sharpies, paint markers, etc with mixed results.

I also think that the stock windows are recessed too far back.

Has anyone found a replacement window from another manufacturer that fits?

Any ideas out there?

thanks.

I've tried to make my own deciduous trees in several ways and so far never liked my results good enough for the foreground of the layout. Today I had an idea so I tried again

For this test I made a simple armature from stranded wire I had lying around:

The Denver Post has a nice feature of about 70 color photographs from America in the 40s. Great source photos, since most images from that era are b+w.  Here is the link:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/2363/

The link suggests this is several years old, so maybe this has already been linked here.-

--George Nagle

Harrisburg, PA

A few years ago I saved the slats from an old, cheap bed that my daughter wasn’t going to use any more. I knew I’d find a use for them eventually and sure enough, we needed quite a few risers. In fact the slats were very good quality fir, much nicer than the 1x2 furring strips we’d used for the rest of the benchwork.