I just received my shipment of "utility poles" for my LTTX flatcars and they are looking great.

These are custom made to exactly represent 85' and 65' utility poles.  They are perfectly tapered and the correct diameter.

Special thanks to Roger at Coastman's Scenic Products

www.coastmans.com

Some pictures of some rock work I did were shown off at school and now I have been asked to make a rock for a school play to hold the Excalibur sword in 1:1 scale.   I have some blue foam board to use as a structure base and was given 25 pounds of plaster of Paris to "make it work".  I'm going to use a bunch of rock molds for detail and a skim coat over all to hold the paint but I would like to harden to finish work a little so it can last  to be used again if possible.  Anyone have any thoughts on this I would truly appreciate it.  The overall si

So, I'm playing around with Google Photos.... and I found that Google has a lot more of my photos than I realized. Which is creepy, but ultimately a good thing. 

Back in 2003/04 (Google says Sept 2003, but... I know better) my father-in-law and I went aerial railfanning. At the time he owned a Cessna 172, which is a nice little bird for stooging around the sky at low altitude and low speed in. 

A double level layout allows fitting a lot of stuff in a limited space, but accessing and working on it might not be so easy.

I looked many times at the topside creeper on Micromark's catalog, but it's quite expensive and shipping 40Kg of steel from the US to Europe would cost as much. By the way I got in touch with the chinese firm that actually makes it, and they offered it at $80.00 each, minimum order of 10.

So I decided to build one myself, using an aluminum ladder and wood. This is the result.