Today, I replaced some track that was not up to my liking, never had a derailment, no stalling, but had a space and a kink that I did not like. As I sat there, removing a milometer of rail to make it perfect, listening to old R&B, I realized, I […]
I picked up a can of Krylon Camouflage Sand paint to paint the layout and make it look more realistic (lowering the left over budget to $25) before ballasting the track. I also printed out two new buildings to flush out the layout (yes, they look cheap, but just place […]
a few more buildings and painting the layout…
I have been trying to come up with things to do to my layout without spending a dime. I came across a site that has WWI airbase paper buildings in 1:144 scale. I figured that if I print them at 90%, they would then magically be 1:160! I also figured […]
adding buildings to the layout…a NUSED loco, and not using ...
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
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….
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 […]