This morning I snuck into the garage, and started to place ballast onto the track. Keeping with the MRH $500 challenge, I am using a 35mm film canister to pour the ballast, the same paintbrush that I used to paint my girl’s bedroom to spread the ballast, another brush for […]
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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 am my dad’s son….
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, […]