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Ways I cut cost on scenery materials
Hey Everyone! Hope you all are doing well.
I've been doing some scenery on my Free-Mo/Model Display module and I've picked up a couple of ways that I can save money on materials! I've put the tips together in a short video that displays the techniques on how I saved money and made some really good looking scenery. Check out the video below and let me know what you think!
Have a great weekend!
Andy
Cork roadbed revisited..............
................from a topic thread of a number of weeks ago. I had espoused using rolled cork cut with a chop saw and put down with water based contact cement. A number of folks were concerned about the lack of a beveled edge and the thinness of the cork.
Here's a few pictures of freshly ballasted track (O scale, code 100 rail) from my layout.
Decoder for Walthers Mainline GP9 HH Phase II
All,
I'm trying to figure out which sound decoder will work with a newly acquired Walther's NYC Mainline GP9 HH Phase II in HO scale.
The locomotive has a 21 pin plug, how do you determine if it's NEM or NMRA standard?
I would prefer to stick with a TCS or Soundtrax setup with sound and KA. This locomotive was powered by a EMD 567C.
Any guidance would be appreciated; I searched for a couple of hours, but I'm more confused than when I started :)
Thanks,
Lou
Atlas HO RS11 and Sharp Curves
Can the Atlas RS11 traverse sharp curves? (like 15" radius)
Can it do so without modification?
Trying my hand at rebuilt 8 hatch reefers
CN had a sizable fleet of 8 hatch ice reefers. Quite a few got rebuilt into mechanical reefers. I'm giving a try at modelling these cars using 3D CAD for the various bits and pieces. More here: doodling a rebuilt 8 hatch reefer
painting figures
Greg Baker used Vallejo paints in a MRH figure paining article, I think in 2019. picture , structures
Iconic Landmark, The Bingham Merc.
We visit my layouts little town then look at the Bingham’s Big Store.
PLA soldering - maybe new technique?
I've been looking around to see if anyone is doing this and I haven't seen it yet, so thought maybe I'd share. I'm big into designing and 3D printing parts for layout structures, especially where things are more or less modern such as steel building parts, etc. So recently I've been working on a grain cooperative structure. I'd made quite a few parts in 3D printed PLA material (the "corn starch" filament), and noticed that it's much easier to print things relatively flat and "fold them up", versus printing taller and removing
Relco MOW in HO scale - part 3
I finally received the remainder of the cars for the MOW train from Shapeways and have started building the well cars. Once I started the building process, I discovered that I had to make some modifications to the car. First the stirrup steps were too flexible and tended to break off when trying to finish them so I removed them and will replace them with metal steps. The major modification came to the slope sheets at the end of the car. I had to remove a good portion to the sheets to get the truck wheels to rotate freely.
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