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#NMRAContest
The NMRA is having a social media contest. The idea is for everyone to have the same starting point with a simple kit and bash and bang it into something you are proud of. You can of course build it as per the kit instructions as well. A well built kit is miles ahead of a poor kitbash job. Anyway, I thought this was a fun idea. You post as you build on the NMRA Facebook page.
Here's the details:
We are introducing an NMRA first!! Its our first Social Media Kit building contest.
The rules:
Minimum Curves for Long Freight Cars & Steam Locos
HO scale:
I'm looking at running long cars (autoracks, etc) on 2 parallel mainline curves, (also two helix curves) of OuterRadius 31". What is the minimum curve I can use for the InnerRadius, while still having trains pass one another simultanously on these 2 tracks.
1) In other words what is the minimum distance I need to provide between the centerlines of the 2 tracks?
Glue Options
I am building a wood kit for the first time in years. I decided to do some experiments with glue. I have for a long time used Weldbond. I have been happy with it but I am looking for something new and I won't find something better if I don't experiment.
I tried ordinary Elmer's Carpenter's Wood Glue. I was gluing some delicate wood parts together and it didn't hold well. Being a "hard" glue I think it was too brittle for my application. I found it fantastic for gluing bracing to wood siding though.
Let's see your static grass layering and blending of various grasses
Jamie@M160, Howard Garner, hobbes1310, and Fritz Milhaupt and others have inspired me to start this web post especially after seeing some images of grass layering.
This is what I've done so far.
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and this is some of the areas I'm going to eventually do some layering
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Change is hard but can be good
Well as some know I had started a thread on possible switching scales and starting with a TOMA approach.
Quickly a lot of the frustrations that I have been dealing with in the hobby came out in that thread.
I had originally thought I would be busy with work all week and take some time away, but mother nature canceled a job today so I decided it was time to do something.
He built a crooked house
I've been working on a Builders in Scale 630 Elm street for several months, in between coding binges and other chores. It is finally finished, or at least ready to be put aside until installation on the layout. (It will be at the front, so must be installed last.) Here is the realtors' view:
First DCC System?
So after spending the past year working on a DC layout I decided I should go DCC. One locomotive is already DCC Ready a Bowser GE UB25 the other is not a Proto 2000 Alco S9. I'll worry about the S9 later I am pretty sure Tim at Maine Modelworks can convert it for me.
So I have no idea what system to get!
Wants:
First DCC System?
So after spending the past year working on a DC layout I decided I should go DCC. One locomotive is already DCC Ready a Bowser GE UB25 the other is not a Proto 2000 Alco S9. I'll worry about the S9 later I am pretty sure Tim at Maine Modelworks can convert it for me.
So I have no idea what system to get!
Wants:
The Crawford and Cherokee (v2) Build Thread
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Over the past few years, I had built a 8 x 18 ft layout inspired by the Iain Rice "Vienna and Carthage" plan which has appeared several times now in books and magazines. Taking the single town approach, I had built the main section of the layout as a town on the Frisco (SLSF). My original variation on the plan appears in the MRH Trackplan Database.
First Locomotive - DCC and Sound - Questions
Hi all,
It's time to buy that first locomotive.
I'd like to get one with DCC and sound built in.
To get the sound to work, do I have to install speakers anywhere in the locomotive, or are they usually already there?
Also, what about sound in rolling stock? Is this common? I'd like to pursue this as well.
Thanks,
JR
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