Cederstrand wrote:Perhaps one day I can hire someone with better eyes to finish pimping it out for me.
Rob, there might be legal issues to "pimping it out", but maybe an optivisor would be a good investment for dressing it (and other items around the layout) up. I don't think there's any laws about dressing up.
pcarrell wrote: Cederstrand wrote:Perhaps one day I can hire someone with better eyes to finish pimping it out for me. Rob, there might be legal issues to "pimping it out", but maybe an optivisor would be a good investment for dressing it (and other items around the layout) up. I don't think there's any laws about dressing up.
Rob.
Definitly an Optivisor. These almost 69 year old eyes use TRI-focals (no typo) to see with. With the help of a three power $15.00 Optivisor I have no trouble working with small parts. Even those tiny Micro Trains coupler mounting screws look like 12" long lag bolts. The only problem now is, how to get rid of that sneaky guy Arthur Itis in my right hand (and wouldn't you know it, I'm right handed) that is getting worse. I can reliably use only my thumb and forefinger now, but I plod on. I would use my left hand more, but I can't blow my nose reliably with my left hand. Missed the Kleenex again.
Blue Flamer.
Philip.
Thanks for the heads up on that. The problem is not so much the pain, as the inability to close the hand to make a fist. The main problem is the damaged knuckles, the result of ramming them into brick, concrete and stone walls when the 18" & 24" pipe wrenches would slip while installing gas meters over a period of about 25 years of my 41 year career with the local gas co. The Doc says that the cure would be much more trouble and painful than the problems that I now have. These problems only started to show up about 5 years ago and that was 5 years after I retired.
Thanks for the info anyway. I have some Tylenol 3's that the Doc prescribed for when my herniated discs act up. Hint: Do not take two of those just after you drink a can of coke. I did ONCE and 15 minutes later I was cackleing like an idiot over nothing and it took the wife 20 minutes, (her story) to get me upstairs and into bed.
Can anybody suggest a manufacturer(s) of decent mid 19th century rolling stock, specifically passenger, in N scale?
Something craftsman maybe? I haven't been able to turn up much and wondered if something had escaped my search.
Thanks!
Craig
DMW
wm3798 wrote: Take the same money and buy four Atlas diesels...Like the prototype, steam in N scale is a maintenance hog....Lee
Take the same money and buy four Atlas diesels...
Like the prototype, steam in N scale is a maintenance hog....
Lee
HA HA!
I love the look of a well done N scale steam engine...in the display shelf!
wm3798 wrote: Take the same money and buy four Atlas diesels...Lee
Never truer words to live by.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Hi guys,
Routine maintenance time...
I'm going to lock this thread. Someone please feel free to start "part II" of the N crowd.
Again, just a little spring maintenace... the forum shouldn't be dragging around a thread 71 pages long and over 1400 posts.
Thanks,Bergie