Blue painters tape makes good roads…. Now just mentally swap out the two wooden laser cut kits from Micro Trains with a big warehouse….
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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…
Tonight, between 8:53 PM and 9:32 PM, my WordPress blog had 552 attepts to log into my admin user name and password. These 552 attempts resulted 184 IP addresses being blocked by my hosting account. I am using a simple plugin called Limit Login Attempts. I am also running nightly […]