Another no-cost modeling project. By Bruce Petty Last May the Ash tree in our back yard flowered, then the little flowers fell to the ground. I noticed that these little flowers looked exactly like scale bushes, so I set a few on the layout to see. They looked like prototype […]
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By Bruce Petty Eucalyptus trees on my layout are made from dead Manzanita branches and Petite Pines Northern tree matting material. If you live or can visit areas of the west where Manzanita grows, a few hours finding and picking the dead branches will end up being a lot of […]
A method to operate manual turnouts that works best for the eye level layout. By Bruce Petty I really like the look of having a smooth fascia without turnout knobs along the edge and also never liked having those so out of scale plastic hand throws as they look so […]
Using the LA River as a fascia. by Bruce Petty The Los Angeles River meanders along side SP Taylor Yard’s engine facility. Part of my growing up years in Los Angeles was riding my bicycle along the concrete LA River channel, this was always a fun way to spend an […]
by Bruce Petty This is another cheep modeling project on how to to turn another Tyco car into a decent looking Southern Pacific G-50-25 type gondola. The prototype cars, a total of 400 were assembled at the Sacramento Shops during the years of 1951-52 and numbered 160650 – 161049. By […]
By Bruce Petty Modern concrete loading docks replace many of the railroads freight station’s aging wooden loading docks.For a little modeling fun, I used the same prototype method pouring real concrete, Dap Concrete Patch. The size of the concrete loading dock is 15 feet wide and 30 feet long. The […]