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I too have had good results from Walthers; free shipping too, that is if you go to their retail store. Of course it helps if you live in the same city as their factory!
Kid-proof your work area! Once those buggers get their walking legs, your posessions become their toys. This became the fate of one finished structure left unguarded - open doors, chimneys, vents, quickly get picked off by curious little fingers. Another reason for 50" benchwork and a child-proof lock on the basement door. By the way, I got my bench work done in '99, that's about where its at still. Two kids, can you guess what year the first was born?
A lot depends on era you're modeling. Old time heralds had lots of icons - like a state seal. Canadian Pacific retains both world using CP on most equipment and the Beaver circle seal to promote its heritage. Most modern branchlines pick a nice font and a simple graphic to tie the letters together. Bold and easilly read - oh, fewer decals ruined because of application miss-haps. Unfortunately (from a designer's standpoint) it is often the simplest ideas that are best, and the final idea doesn't reflect
Operational lights would be a trick to sequence with other traffic lights (green= white WALK signal, yellow = blinking DON'T WALK, red = DON'T WALK). Most in my area are mounted lower and to right of traffic signal when viewed with traffic and square shape. 2006 version is led driven, display white walking figure, then red hand; some even count seconds down until signal goes red. Modern downtown areas are mainly office / retail space, with some hotels and industries beyond that. Manufacturing was
I've got FRP panels up (adhered to walls paneling) and wonder how to hide seams. I butted two seams at the curved section backed with an 8" strip of the material which "floats" at back of layout and is invisible. There are two seams along straight sections that need to allow for movement in my basement location. How are styrene / FRP users getting continuous sheet look?
Times are available on the 261 site http://www.261.com/ and I remember a wye in the area, to a coal plant I believe, which would cover the turn. You could poke around maps.google.com to find it. Passed the consist on my way to work this morning. What's this about the Miller Lite cars? Thought the Mayor voted Lite Rail down...
I scanned the track template page from a Walthers catalog and rebuilt simplified plans in Adobe Illustrator of the items I wanted. Figured I'd be buying their turnouts and why not use accurate representations of them. A postscript drawing package will have spline (vector) drawing tools that are the way to go for easements and complex curves. Illustrator is not cheap if you are just creating track plans, but can be used for designing structures and custom decal creation.
See if you can track down an old city map or a DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer has current and some not current lines indicated. Wisconsin issue broken down by county and pages are oversized so it makes a good reference - including downtown Milwaukee.
I'd pick a few scenes to focus on as there is no "prototype" to refer to. The Island (and its inhabitants) have evolved a lot since the books and my kids have no problem filling in gaps or putting storylines to the scene. Give Percy a shed, Gordon a station, Thomas a branch line and let the rest happen by itself.
The guy is a jerk. Anyone shooting private property, wherever it is, should go out of their way to cooperate with employees or security. When taking photos of people, they should ask permission first when possible. I would be concerned if some guy pulled out a camera and started shooting pics of me while I was working. Or the guy shooting pictures of my kids the other day - coulda' been some nut, but atleast he introduced himself, told me what he was doing, asked me if it was ok to take pictures
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