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Any sugestion to use on our layouts? We could get some wood abd file it making real sawdust, then placing it somewhere, but we're facing the fact that some of it could fly about settling around the rails bother0ing the performances of our locos Nice video👍🏼👏🏻 🙏🇦🇷
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So glad to see this layout is still around, I love going through dad's old back issues of Mr and looking at the pictures of it. So awesome to see it in action!
Thanks. Takes me back to the early to mid 2000's when I first got in the hobby as a little kid. It's been 20 years of being in the hobby now, and I am on my 3rd layout - proto-freelance industrial layout in 1980's Oregon (Coos bay area).
Very good tips. I've got one flatcar that I put 3 hydrocal castings and they were already covered; all I had to do was paint them with some olive green paint to represent the tarps that covered the load. I used black thread to secure to the flatcar deck. Another thing you can use is very thin strips of electrical tape. I already knew about the CA & baking soda. Now I'll have to give the styrene putty trick a go. I guess one could use the left over sprues to make the liquid styrene. I have a Lionel Texas Special that has the cutout for the reversing lever but it only goes forward. I used the baking soda and CA to fill the gap and then sanded and painted the repair. Came out looking great! Cheers from eastern TN
Well I looked at MRR tutorials and there were no free card stock kits to download. I've gotten a few from Clever Models, i.e., the signal tower in HO & O scales, the Haunted House in O scale and the Silver City tool shed in O scale. Since I've acquired enough rolling stock and engines in Lionel 027 scale I decided to begin modeling in O scale. A few years back Clever Models had a Taylor's General store that I downloaded and built in HO scale and another house in HO scale. Those models taught me how to add relief to a flat card stock model. I'm watching your video to refresh my memory of skills and techniques to use when modeling with card stock. I've incorporated a few tips you've given me over the years like using a single sheet of plastic corrugated material for a mold using Elmer's glue (PVA) and peeling off the layer of glue and using it instead of buying plastic corrugated material every time I wanted to model corrugated steel in HO scale. I always scratch build all my fencing for both scales. Cheers from an old modeler in eastern TN
I too used 14 AWG solid wire for my bus which has runs of around 45' and 20 AWG solid for my drops. My bus wire is household wire and the drops are bell wire from Lowes. Home Depot would work too.
