My last post was planning with tape. As some of you know, Casa Grande is not really near a “local” hobby store. I sometimes have to improvise with my supplies. Getting styrene is not always the easiest thing. I wound up going to Lowes and buying a large “No Parking” […]

first road…kind of…

Blue painters tape makes good roads…. Now just mentally swap out the two wooden laser cut kits from Micro Trains with a big warehouse….

blue roads….

After yesterday’s post looking down at Toltec, I decided to download a basic photo editing app to rough in parking lots, roads, a concrete loading ramp and another warehouse…..no where near as good as I can do on my computer with a real editor, but it is an idea. As […]

roughing in some scenery

In the past, I have climbed to the top of the local mountains to get a bird’s eye view of the Casa Grande Valley. Today I cleaned up the layout area and pretend to do the same, looking down at the semi-freelanced town of Toltec, AZ. Toltec does actually exist, […]

looking down from the mountain…

The search for a good photo of a Pacific Electric SW1 has been a fun exercise. I have been given a copy of a picture of 1011 taken in San Bernardino in PE lettering, but without poles. I have been told that it had poles, but I have not seen […]

more Pacific Electric SW1 fun…and confusion.

So I got an early Christmas present from the wife today, an Arnold SW1. Right now, it is in AMTRAK paint, but soon will either get a Bloody Nose or Tigger Striped. I am really leaning to make it a Pacific Electric Tigger Stripe loco, but that would require me […]

To Tigger or not to Tigger…