Below are some images of a new static grass applicator my friend, John Klocker, put together.  I haven’t seen a design like this before and I think it’s a neat approach. Just thought I would share his design. 

Scott Thornton
Modeling the Milan branch of the Iowa Interstate
http://www.iaisrailfans.org/gallery/STMilanBranch

HO Scale Model Animated Rooms

Hallo all freight car builders!

I know how to flatten wood (goo for Northeastern rolling stock kits :)) - but now I received 3 boxes of Westerfield resin kits, where the side walls and end walls of the box cars are not straight and flat. Do you have any trick to flatten these parts without risking to spoil them??

Thanks for any hint

scopewime

My Thing-A-Week challenge got a little delayed due to my wife and I both coming down with the nasty cold that has been going around. It lasts about 16 days or so, with the accompanying cough, so neither of us got a lot done over the last three weeks or so.

That said, I am finally feeling better this week, so I have returned to work on train stuff. Alas, due to a lack of parts for the electric locomotive (I need to get some wire, tiny single-wire connectors, and so forth), I have had to shelf that project for the time being.