Modeling topic

Trackplan From Paper To Plywood

Mon, 2012-05-28 11:47 — Kevin Rowbotham

What methods do you fellows use for getting your track plans from the many pages of a computer printout to the plywood table top?

Do you; tape the sheets in place, glue them, pin them or have you another way you prefer?

Once sorted, organized and fastened in place, I thought I would use a pounce wheel to trace the plan onto the plywood. Any better ideas, pitfalls to beware of, or tips to make it go better?

Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers!

24 comments

Analog Fast Clocks

Mon, 2012-05-28 05:06 — ferroequinologist1

Tools, tips and tricks

To All: To all but especially to the person that wanted to know how to build an

analog fast clock. Simply remove the second hand from a large wall

clock. I post a sign next to it that states, for example, that 10 minutes

equals 1 hour. Therefor, 1 hour equals 6 hours. Two hours would be

New blog and residence

Sun, 2012-05-27 19:37 — Chuck Geiger

Prototype information

http://alaskarail.blogspot.com/ is a link to my new blog - Just moved

to Wasilla, AK and we love it.

Modern over pass

Sun, 2012-05-27 11:43 — Ontario Eastern

Good day all,

So I am looking for some ideas that you may have come up with for modeling a pulpwood unloader for a paper mill project that I am working on. I have wood chip unloading taken care of with an off scene unloading facility (sorry not enough room to model that) The picture below is one that Bernard Kempinski scratch built for his Dancor module several years ago.

Some Big Time Progress on the 8th Sub

Sat, 2012-05-26 19:37 — wp8thsub

See what I did there? The progress in question relates to fast clocks. I finally made sufficient headway on the dispatcher's office to install the fast clock master module. I'm using the Time Lynx from Rail Lynx http://rail-lynx.com/accessory_modules.htm. Unlike the clock that's integral with my NCE DCC system, the Time Lynx is variable in tenths of a "fast" hour anywhere from 1:1 to 25:1. It was also more cost effec

Pets on Layout Tours, an ongoing discussion on another site.

Sat, 2012-05-26 18:11 — dkaustin

There is a discussion going on the Yahoo Discussion Group for Model Railroads of Southern California. This month there have been many layout tours being held which are posted on the group. It seems a woman brought a dog to the layout tour without asking the homeowner first. She claims it is a service dog. What happened was that the leash on the dog got caught on the layout and did some damage. I have posted a clip here which includes a response from the woman involved. To me she has an attitude in her response. She seems to feel entitled to show

Thoughts And Ideas

Sat, 2012-05-26 12:58 — Greyhart

Layout design

Start at the beginning

Like I suspect many of you, I've been wanting to build a model railroad for some time. Until now I haven't had the money, or a space to actually build. I suspect many who have the interest, also have the same problems.