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Teen Model Railroader Place -Summer 2010-

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:38 PM

It really isn't... You can get Atlas locos for good prices from MB Klein etc, and when you factor in all the detail parts you also have to buy, building one from the ground up is much more expensive.

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Posted by Quinton Fallon on Thursday, July 29, 2010 7:52 PM

100% better good job

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Posted by SD60M on Thursday, July 29, 2010 7:33 PM

Thanks for the tips GG. Here is my second attempt at the hills, still has a few bumps but alot better than before. Tell what ya think.

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Posted by Quinton Fallon on Thursday, July 29, 2010 3:39 PM

 hey hasn't anybody reallised how much we could save buy buildingthe locomotives by areself.  for the cost of a premade ready to go locomotive from atlas costs about $100. and if you go buy the parts  and supplies needed its about $40-$60 for the same thing $10 for the shell $20 for the motor  and $10 to $30 for the rest of the needed supplies. and you saved enough money to get a decent decoder.

heres the link to the company check it out

http://www.atlasrr.com/

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Posted by Quinton Fallon on Thursday, July 29, 2010 3:24 PM

  well Chessie Sys. 3022 good job for finaly installing your first decoder and good luck to you. just don't burn the decoder with the soddering iron and you will be okay.

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Posted by Flashwave on Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:10 PM

Chessie Sys. 3022

Sure looks a "thing" Alex Tongue

About to install my first decoder in the GP30 - It's a hardwire install too. Wish me luck!

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Posted by IVRW on Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:38 AM
Kade, I've been to the Pac Northwest many times, and as long as you put plenty of trees on them, those hills are the best Ive seen in a very long time!

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:35 AM

I just snapped a pic to show what I was talking about...

The screen is secured with brads, but you can use a staple gun if you have one. The paper towels were then wet and laid atop that. Paper towels allow for more give, which is good when you have a module. A layout will be fine with plaster cloth.


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Posted by Quinton Fallon on Thursday, July 29, 2010 10:19 AM

 hi

 kade your hills look way to bumpy. i'm not an expert on burlington northern but i dont think that they do not have hills that bumpy but they would look right at home in the south west US from what i could tell. found that useing smaler tighter balls of paper about the size of a golf ball work well for a rounder hill but its your layout and good luck

 

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:45 PM

Kade,

I'm not sure what you're going for in terms of terrain, but next time I'd take some window screen or mesh and put that over the crumpled paper before doing the plaster cloth. This will create a smoother hill, unless you were going for the bumpy look. 

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Posted by Quinton Fallon on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:58 PM

hello

its been a long time sience i was here but i had the jmoy full task of redoing my yard after my sister tried to be nice to me by cleaning the tracks. she snaped the wire feeds,riped up the black stuff wich turned out to be subroad and roadbed base,thank god that was the only place i had a plywood base or by by foam.nocked the trackes out of guage, but what are you going to do shes only 9 thank, god that the august issue came out with a transfer yard and that is what im tring to turn my small yard into.  also i finaly rechecked the disstance betweeen the trackes in my soon to be plastered tunnl but of course my trackes are 1/3 of a inch soo wide so now 60 foot cars bump the sides of the portals, not good. so i have to redo it all over again. now when i tried to re do it one of the tracks ties snaped from the rail causing a foot long area  of track needs to now be replaced did i mention i am working with flex track wich im out of at the moment and will be a month before i cane get some more the near ist store that cares flexd track wich is only a mile away got ride of its train department. the nearist one is 50 miles away in a major town and i dont know were it is and i cant seem to fine its adressthis is why i havent been loging on i have been spending all my time looking for a store i know there is websites that i can find but im pennyless sience i got 50 bucks in swickes that are goeing to need anouther twenty to repare.

outher than that i had a great summer

bye

p.s. I'm not over reacting

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Posted by SD60M on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 6:53 PM

Hows it going guys. I have started to rebuild my hills and im liking how they have turned out but this is only part one of my hills and i still may have touch ups to do before paint and scenery. Tell me what ya'll think.

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Posted by Chessie Sys. 3022 on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:00 AM

Sure looks a "thing" Alex Tongue

About to install my first decoder in the GP30 - It's a hardwire install too. Wish me luck!

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:06 PM

And Jordan has risen from the dead...

Just finishing this thing up for a friend.



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Posted by WCfan on Monday, July 26, 2010 9:22 PM

Oh, hey, haha, it's been way too long since I have posted anything on here. So anyone remember that old tower I made about two years back.


Maybe that will help some of you. Well a while back I disassembled and stripped the kit. I gave it a new and more prototypical paint job; light gray with dark gray trim. I did a quick assembly of the walls and was planning on scratch building a new staircase. The staircase didn't turn out so well, so I set the tower aside for a while.

After all that rambling that brings us to now. I had an idea to move the stair case to the back of the tower and make it enclosed. So today I hastily made a crude card stock mock-up of the staircase. My modelers knife had walked off on my and I didn't have any glue, so I had to use scissors and tape.

Although it may not look pretty, I did learn come valuable lessons that will help me when I move on to styrene. The most important was that I need to make sure to keep the staircase square, otherwise it won‘t align properly. Last I now have a more efficient way to cut the styrene out. So hopefully tomorrow I'll have a knife and glue and I can start building!

Oh and I will have supports on back to the staircase. Now where to put the AC unit...

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Posted by IVRW on Sunday, July 25, 2010 2:40 PM
I tore the old layout up today. Pictures soon. Tell me to get the pictures if I get lazy. :)

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Posted by Packers#1 on Friday, July 23, 2010 1:49 PM

IVRW
Awesome Job Sawyer!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks John!

Well, I posted basically every pic in WPF, except for one I think. So for the pic by pic commentary check that out

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Posted by IVRW on Friday, July 23, 2010 1:32 PM
Awesome Job Sawyer!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by Packers#1 on Friday, July 23, 2010 10:12 AM

 Thanks GG. Walthers has em from a few different companies. only problem is I still need the caboose ground throws to operate turnouts; no way am I wasting money on Tortoise switch motors for this layout. I may have a way though, I'll test it out

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:17 PM

I'll try to get you a link once I find them but I know someone did etching for scale N scale switch stands. (picture)

Also, BLMA should be releasing scale ones soon as well.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:19 PM

 Well, to get back on the subject of trains, I won't bore you with 8 or so pics of paper towels soaked in joint compound, but I'll give you the link to my facebook mobile upload album. View of you dare.

but I will share an overview of the town.

 

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Posted by ns3010 on Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:13 PM
Hey, I actually liked The Scarlet Letter! My English teacher and I got into a heated discussion about that book, and I successfully wasted an entire 83 minute double period! And yeah, let's just stay away from THAT... I'll just say that I hate Roger Chillingworth (because he's pure evil), and I'm not allowed to comment on Dimmesdale... OTOH, The Crucible was the WORST book I've ever read... This year, I had to read All Quiet on the Western Front (which was good), and I'm about half done with A Tale of Two Cities (hate it!), and I have another book that I can't remember right now. I read The Grapes of Wrath last year, and it was very good, although very sad.

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Posted by Flashwave on Thursday, July 22, 2010 3:39 PM

Ah books. My 8th grade year I read Last of the Mohicans. And whilst trying to finish, the Reading Teacher assigned a project on reading Depression-setting books. Everyone complained about having to read those tiny little novellas, while Teach reccomended to me The Grapes of Wrath. (If you don't know, it's a thick book). I greatly reccomend it though. The sad part, I nearly finished it in  the same amount of time that it took some of my classmates to read a book 1/3 the size.

My Senior Year (last year) we read Canturbury Tales (it's okay)  Sir Gawain & The Green Knight(King Arthur) which was meh, Frankenstein, Hamlet, 1984 (Highly reccomended) "Metamorphosis" (don't waste your time), Much Ado About Nothing, Cry, the Beloved Country, (also good) and another 4 I can't recall.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:42 AM

Guilford Guy

Yes let's not have that conversation again...

 

yes sir

Well, heading to Wal-Mart to buy a $15 itunes giftcard. how is that train related? I'll be listening to the music I buy while I work some more on the hills. Joint Compound works wonders lol

I'm also out of Krylon clear, so I need to get some more. That will probably wait though.

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:55 PM

Yes let's not have that conversation again...

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Posted by Packers#1 on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:48 PM

 Taylor, thanks. well there's one aspect to it which is impossible, but discussion of that oversteps forum rules. I actually weathered another boxcar, but the pics came out blurry (cell phone in hands=fail)

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Posted by modelbnsfer on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 6:28 PM

Hey everyone,

Sawyer, Dude the Life of Pi is a cool book if you get and understand it. I had to read it for english and the beginning sucks but the last part is cool. Now the scarlet letter just completely sucks. Like they talk funny and its confusing and some guy doesn't even use his real name. Never going to understand it lol.

Well hope everything is going good. Boxcar looks good by the way.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:40 PM

 Nah man, we had to read The Secret Life of bees last year. It SUCKED! but my sister has to read The Life of Pi this year instead; from what she's told me it SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

Our books are The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy and The heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent. Joy.....

GG, module looks good.

Justin, that sucks man, least you have an idea of what else you can use it for.

Well, weathered this BC Rail boxcar. the green is tough to fade with Bragdon powders, but I think it turned out decent.



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Posted by IVRW on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:56 AM
Taylor!!! I AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONT READ IT IF YOU WANT TO LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My recommendation: fold up a MRM and use it as a book mark. Voila! A thing to occupy yourself while you pretend to read Quod mallus libellus. (That awful little book)

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Posted by modelbnsfer on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:22 AM

Hey Everyone,

Sorry I have been so busy lately. On vacation and school starts up on August 9th so have been busy doing summer work and stuff. Never read the scarlet letter, worst book in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So i will post when I can.

Hello to all the new guys!

Talk to ya when I can

Taylor 

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