I’m in a little bit of a quandary regarding the construction of the platforms at the station — should the planks run parallel to, or perpendicular to the tracks?
These two views of this station show all kinds of interesting things. Notice the grade crossing in the picture at left – very similar to mine, [...]
Basic scenery was applied to the second module today. It’s still pretty wet in this picture. I also tried doing things a little differently, with regards to the grout scenery base.
What I have been doing with the grout is to apply a fairly liberal coating of white glue to the layout and/or scenery forms, [...]
A good bit of progress so far today. We’re looking at the “back” of module one (of three), and the first “coat” of scenery is applied, mostly. It’s really beginning to take shape! Everything’s pretty well soaked in matte medium, glue and hairspray at this point. In a little while, I’ll clean things up [...]
More progress in module land today. I’m working in the yard throat area at this point, as most of the scenic challenges are in this area. I wanted to bring a road into the module to provide access to the small loco shop, and also truck access to the station platform.
This shot shows the [...]
After some e-mail conversation with another Mid-Atlantic Moduleer, it appears that I’m going to be adding a third module to the yard set, to include a 60′ turntable — specifically, this Sellers cast iron turntable, manufactured by Freshwater Models.
It should actually be a fun project, but one that I just hadn’t planned to [...]
No pictures on this one. Sorry, this just isn’t the exciting part.
All the track is down, all the drops are in, and they’ve been soldered to the bus wires. Yes, I said soldered. I usually use 3M suitcase connectors to hook the drop wires to the buses, but, I ran out. Fortunately, this is modular [...]
The internet’s a wonderful thing. I was searching for something else, of course, when I found this:
November 10 - Kadee has announced these new On30 items:
On30 Griffin 24″ Ribbed Back Wheels Sets
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#300 Griffin 24″ Ribbed Back Wheels
8 Sets Per Package $7.90
I don’t know how new the information is (or, how old!), but it’s certainly intriguing.