The San Antonio Model Railroad Association (SAMRA) recently held their 41st Annual Train Show in San Antonio, TX. Before it got too crowded on Sunday morning, I was able to take a few videos of some of the club layouts that were at the show.  There is a large HO layout that has a really great looking refinery scene, then an O-scale layout that has a great circus with lots of music, and lastly, the N-scale layout with dinosaurs in the stock yard at their meat packing plant.

Hi folks, I'm just finishing up 12 tichy 40ft flats. I painted the entire car, including trucks and wheels.

Now I'm just curios what is the consensus on the base color for the couplers. Then I was thinking of a top coat / dry rush of a dirt color.

What are some of the coupler painting techniques you all use?

To All: Recently deceased John Canfield produce limited run Early Rail HO scale car kits under his Virginia Car & Foundry banner. I bought two of his Bobber Cabooses. I painted one in the DL&W RR color scheme and one in my road color scheme. Though I never meet him, I appreciated his sense of humor and his fine craftsman kits. I bought most of his kits.

This is a building that is part of a 3 structure mill complex. On my last layout it worked really well in it's full size state. Not anymore! So what is the best way to cut it in half length ways. You can see the part of the right side that is missing windows and has no weathering. I want to cut it between the weathered and non weathered sides on both ends of the building. I'm thinking either by hand using a small x-acto saw or with a dremel tol and cut off disc on slow speed.