Yearly Archives: 2013

Last week, I realized that I made a mistake in my alignment of my ground throws for my switches, instead of setting them up to where all of them point in the same direction to go strait, I set them for ease of reach around spotted freight cars. To make […]

ground throw modification

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I know that there are some threads out there on making buildings out of your color printer and card stock or paper mounted on styrene…well, I have a printer, styrene, and the desire to try something. All of the buildings that I have found are either too old, all brick, […]

looking for paper buildings….

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  Lance Mindheim has built many great layouts. One of his tricks is to paint finely detailed track in lighter colors to highlight the details, and if you are using track with big, over-sized details (like i am with Atlas Code 80), to use darker paint. Well, as you might […]

Track is painted…

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Operating the layout was one of the main things that I wanted to do before building the layout. I really wanted something that I can operate realistically, and as a puzzle as well. The next to last plan that I drew up was basically a large Timesaver. By moving the switch that […]

Operating the layout and other thoughts….

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I am PISSED off at Floquil Paints.I had a used rail brown,roof brown and grimy black spray can and a new rail brown and grimy black. All five cans had paint in them, you could feel the weight. All of them had no propellant. FIVE expensive spray cans that I have […]

UGH!!!! Floquil, you strike again!

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