As you proably know, Miller Engineering makes some excellent animated billboards, I have 3 on my layout now and would like to add  more.

The issue that popped up is that my latest acquisition, the large Nestle billboard, started loosing it's programming.  I have to constantly reprogram it, sometimes it runs for a couple of days, then fails, sometimes just one day and fails.

I use a lot of photos in modeling.  I want to copy brick from a photo — so I can get the right, color, pattern etc.

I try to take a small section of the brick and recopy it so I can have a page of the brick.  When I copy and place a section of brick in photoshop elements 2020 i can line them up but I cannot get rid of the lines between each block.  

I also have Affinity which I am starting to use.

How can I set there blocks side by side and not get lines?

Anybody done this successfully?

I would like to get away from the traditional sky blue and explore a grey or overcast sky. Anybody that has gone in that direction please share your photos.

-Scott

Happy memories at the Oregon Molalla model train park, it's now threatened by the wildfires.

Molalla is on level 3 evacuation ... leave NOW! Two large fires that have been burning in the foothills of the Cascades are now expected to merge into one massive fire at Molalla on Friday.