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Pittsburgh & Southern South Pittsburgh Maintenance Yard
First, a sincere thank you to abelida for identifying the building I was working on, and setting me on the path to get original views of the kit.
This is how the kit was originally designed to be built:
Request for an assist.
Folks, I'm trying to track down a picture of an old HO scale building. It was the office of the Weekly Standard newspaper, and I know it was around in the early sixties at least. I am using it as the base for a scratching building project, and want to show the "before" picture as well as the project results.
The example I have has no manufacturer stamped anywhere on the pieces I have (this building was an incomplete pile of broken parts when I rescued it from my mother's basement 30 years ago).
Weathering Ultra Modern Australian HO scale locomotives.
Hi All
would like to share some of my techniques for Weathering Ultra Modern Australian HO scale locomotives.
It might be of interest.
City street widths
Gentlemen -
Can someone please point me in the direction of where one would most likely, or be able to guesstimate, the width of a city street? Now, I know that that is a relative term - Are we talking modern, WW2, or pre-depression......Main street/thoroughfare, side street, or alleyway.....Sidewalks or no sidewalks (as I am sure all that has a bearing on things)???
The Value of a Friend's Honest Opinion / Rail Color Correction
When I visited my good friend Michael Rose the other day we were discussing rail colors and he said "I don't like the rail color on your layout - it's too red." My layout does have two different rail colors where I switched from ??? color which was a more reddish color to the Tamiya XF-64 Red/Brown color which is a little browner.
Board by board construction
This is a question about building a structure board by board with scale wood.
My question is, what tools, glues and techniques do you use?
I have my workbench set up with a board, the wall diagram taped down and wax paper taped down on top.
Recommendations of how to keep things from moving around and keep everything square.
Bill.
Michael Rose is alive and well!
This post is for all of you fans of Michael Rose to let you know that he is alive and well as I observed from my visit to see him last week. He had contacted me to get my input on some ideas he had and of course for some excellent fellowship (including delicious peach cake and German coffee!)
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