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.
Alex
100% better good job
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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-Kade
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/
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.
Chessie Sys. 3022 Sure looks a "thing" Alex About to install my first decoder in the GP30 - It's a hardwire install too. Wish me luck!
Sure looks a "thing" Alex
About to install my first decoder in the GP30 - It's a hardwire install too. Wish me luck!
Don;t electrocute yourself, and try not to fry anything important! (Oh, not what you said)
-Morgan
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
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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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
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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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
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.
Modeling New Haven despite what his user name says...
And Jordan has risen from the dead...
Just finishing this thing up for a friend.
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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IVRWAwesome 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
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
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
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.
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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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.
Guilford GuyYes let's not have that conversation again...
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.
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)
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.
Taylor
Bear Down!
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.
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