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Repurposed flooring material
Modeling tip du jour... I was at Home Depot yesterday and was just browsing to see what I could re purpose for model railroad use. I found a white gloss finish flooring tile 12"x18" and I said to myself... Self, that would make a good surface to build models on to ensure the bottoms are flat and even. So for $5 I bought it. I am working on a structure kit and it just saved me a ton of frustration.
I used to have a large piece of tempered glass but lost it in a move. This seems to work just as well.
Very tired and sore.
We moved house back on April 30th. It was the same day that Brisbane copped a jolly good walloping in the rain dept. Oddly enough, when the removalists arrived, the rain abated. The run was only about 1.5k's up the hill. When the last two items were carried out to the new house and the boss was locking up his truck , he got soaked.
As I say to people at the station fare gates, like all good comedy, it's a matter of timing!
Pikemasters videos
Hello all
I figured I would start a little thread to post the videos I get at the club from time to time.
The videos follow ...
Moderator note: This site works best if your initial post is short and sweet - post all the bulk to the first comment after your opening post, so we moved all your videos there. Really long initial posts repeat across pages and get annoying to readers.
Weekly Photo Fun - September 4th to September 10th 2015
Great work everyone last week! Time to start of this week's photo thread!
As always, we get as much out of your in-process photos as we do the highly polished "all done" shots!
Andrew
MicroLuxe jigsaw / Scroll Saw
Does anybody have one, or tried a MicroMark mini jigsaw? I am looking at powered alternatives for cutting basswood models for scratch building and kit bashing.
http://www.micromark.com/microlux-jigsaw-and-scroll-saw,6673.html
Thomas Gasior
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Big thank you to the guys at MRH for the show coverage and work they did.
As usual Jeff out did himself with the updates and info sharing via the web that allowed so many of us to vicariously enjoy the show. Now the work Jeff did might have been a bit more visible than some of the others but I think we should likely extend a big thank you to everyone involved with the show and the coverage that was undertaken by MRH.
Portland National Train Show layouts from 2015
Had a great time at the National Train Show this past weekend. Here are a few of the photos that I took of the layouts. Probably the most impressive was the Freemo-N layout that covered 80' x 100 with a lot of the layout viewed from both sides.
Freemo layout plan
What's On Your Workbench? - September 2015
OK time for "What's on your workbench". With the kids off to school and the last summer holiday coming up it'll be time to get back into some serious modeling.
Let's see what you have on the bench for the coming cold season ahead.
Bernd
National Model Train Show, Portland
I went to the National Model Train Show in Portland with some pals yesterday. It was a long and somewhat stressful trip due to the weather. There was a big storm front raging northward right during the show (hundreds of thousands of people in Washington were without power by nightfall) and caused some white-knuckle steering along I-5 heading right in the front. Thankfully, most of the damages was well north of Olympia, so I didn't get affected other than being pushed left and right along the drive heading down to the show, and being worried that a tree might fall on us.
One for Prof Klyzr
I have a wonder about the Land Down Under, Prof!
Over at nScale.net, one of the forum members posted a neat little vintage 8mm clip of the Graham County Railroad from the early 1960s. Coal-burning Shays on a common carrier, interchanging with the Southern Railway -- pretty intriguing stuff, I'd say.
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