MisterBeasley I use Durham's Water Putty for my roads.
I use Durham's Water Putty for my roads.
So do I. It's available at Home Depot, near the paint supplies. Nobody who works there seems to know what it is, or that they carry it, so I halfway by accident discovered it. Great stuff!
Radioactive toilet float. I LOVE it!
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
ruderunnerToilet float?
Yep, and a couple of PVC fittings.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Modeling the Cleveland and Pittsburgh during the PennCentral era starting on the Cleveland lakefront and ending in Mingo junction
Straight out of the plumbing aisle
I use PVC pipe caps to recess toggle switches in the layout fascia so they don't get accidentally bumped, especially on the club layout. A 1-inch cap is large enough to get a finger into to throw a sub-miniature toggle switch's lever.
I drill a hole in the end of the cap and mount the toggle switch on the outside with the lever on the inside of the cap. I then use a hole saw to drill into the facia, which is masonite over a 2x4, and mount the PVC cap flush with the fascia.
For turnout position indicators, red and green LEDs are flush mounted on one side of the cap.
Corregated picture frame nails make good junkyard fences, just get them wet and sit around for a bit and they will get natural rust, no paint required.
Sure!
Try this. I have used left-over round sprues from plastic model kits to simulate water pipes, gas pipes, sewer pipes, etc. Wherever there is an elbow, there are four flanges: two on the elbow and one each on the straight pipes leading into the elbow.
In the electrical departments, at Lowe's or Home Depot, you can find a huge assortment of sizes of plastic hollow wall anchors. These things are designed with a plastic ring molded to a stem that will accept a screw within the drywall or other hollow wall material. Useful for mounting pictures, planters, and the like: they also make great raw material for elbow flanges. Use the stem as a place to grip the object and sever the small ring off the top. Voila! An HO (or any other) scale donut that can be slipped onto the plastic sprue to simulate a pipe flange.
Pictured below is a small stone arch bridge I kitbashed to accomodate four tracks. I started with a Monroe Models single-track bridge kit. I took one half of the kit, placed it in front of the riser. For the portion of the bridge actually under the track, I bought a 2" PVC pipe coupling from Home Depot, cut it in half and painted the pieces flat black. After the pieces dried. I traced their shape on the riser and used my hot knife to cut out a tunnel under the track and the stream bed. I places the PVC arches under the tracks, and then I glued the arch and wing walls in front of the riser.I filled the gaps behind the wing walls with Woodland Scenics "Flex Paste."
Do any of you have kitbash projects that used parts purchased at Home Depot, Lowes or the local hardware store? If so, show them here.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com