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Same goes for drying dirt, doesn't everybody dry dirt in their oven? I like to use the leaves and real dirst as ground cover but have found higher temp around 400 degrees work much better. Just have to watch for flash fires in the oven, not a good thing
When you drive down a county road and think to yourself, now this would make a good scene to model. When you drive by a building and say, (sometimes out loud) man that would make one heck of a train building. When your in Walmart and give a kid intimidating look so he walks away from the little cars and trucks that you want for your layout. When your in a first name basis with the ladies at A.C.Moore & Micheal's craft stores. Want to hug the mailman when he brings you your latest copy of
I use 1/8" Masonite attached to cleats (screwed & glued) that are attached to the studs with drywall screws if for any reason it ever has to come down the original wall in the room aren't compromised and will just need a little spackle on the holes left behind by the dry wall screws. My reason for using 1/8" is that it bends real easy giving you seamless inside curves to hide the inside corners of the room. If you desire to paint the Masonite use a little drywall compound on the
The Bachman Spectrum is a pretty fair product line they are relatively inexpensive compared to some other brands, their detailing isn't all that bad either, they run fine some require a little tweaking here and there but that can be said for a lot of locomotives and for the most part they have good customer service. If a newly purchased product is bad most of the time they replace it rather then repair it. Their lower cheaper line is exactly that cheap poor quality stuff that if your running
Here is a link to possibly one of many sites telling you how to make the John Allen track cleaning car. I run several of these cars on my layout and have zero problems when it comes to track cleaning. Cheap and very effective. I have also heard where some people use ATF Automatic Transmission Fluid to clean track. It does have a very hihg detergent quality to it but can't say for sure how it works as I haven't yet given it a try. One thing about the Masonite track cleaning car is you need
A typical Ho scale double track main should be 2-1'2" from center to center the reason for this is if you intend to run heavy weight passenger cars such as you mentioned in many cases depending on the radius of your curves cars will over hand and hit objects such as switch stands, signs signals etc. even a passing train on the opposing track. An easy way to verify this is measure the center-line distance of any double track bridge such as Walthers, Central Valley or Micro Engineering for
What I find truly amazing is the George is one heck of a model builder probably one of the best we will ever see, but by far not one of the greatest model railroaders, believe it or not there is a difference. How ever he managed to pull building a really great model railroad ad from what I had been told didn't need all that much changed to make it into a really nice railroad for operation. Yes George has a some what unique style all his own of maybe over weathering buildings to the point of getting
The quietest method I have tried and will stick with to date is spline sub roadbed or 3/4" birch plywood works very well also homasote topped with homabed roadbed and track glued not nailed down with silicone adhesive. Yup basically take right out of the Realistic Reliable Track publication but mine was down a few months before it came out............lol Being as there is no positive connection between the track to the bench work no sound it transmitted to the bench work. hence no vibrating
Envirotex appears to have a one year shelf life after opening any time longer it's a crap shoot as to how it's going to look but of more concern last.
Thats the one super advantage of Envirotex lite it's virtually odor free if it were the old stuff then you would need to evacuate your wife, kids pets etc. that stuff was NASTY