So this is a thread where I am going to show some of my experiments and also see if anyone has done this too. I am going to attempt to make freight cars only from lasercut wood. For my first project I going to try a gondola and eventually a boxcar also. I am not sure how well this will work out but I want to try and form a long block train and feel like this will be the cheapest way to do it easily.

Ohio in the fall is often cold, hot, rainy, snowy, and beautiful, often on the same day.  For me it is a chance to get out into the fields around my home to pick trees for the layout.  For a little effort I can pick hundreds of reasonable, and free, trees in an hour.  Compared to store-bought, they are more realistic and can vary from an inch to more than twelve inches in height.  Their structure is delicate and represents late fall/early spring trees here in Ohio.  The evergreens are nothing more than grasses hit with cheap hairspray and some ground foam.  Eac

It seems there is much buzz about photography lately. Be it smart phone or other, there is something I feel I must say. Please put some light on the models ! No matter what camera you are using, put light and more light on it. If you don't, you just might end up with other issues and chase your tail with settings unnecessarily. Dark pictures are just that..dark. Every ones models look the same in the dark, low detail and dark. 

I was happy to see Lance Mindheim's article on smartphone photography up here. I've always liked his simplistic slant on the hobby with amazing results. I also picked up Model Railroader and Pelle Soesberg has a similar article...photographing your layout with an iphone (or Smartphone in my case). Awesome! Is it a cooincidence? 

Smartphones, like mine, the LG G5, come with 2 cameras. The standard 16 megapixels, the wide angle 8.