The track or rail that you purchase still has a film of cutting oil on it's surface resulting from it's manufacture. This prevents paint from sticking properly. So, the first thing I do is to clean the rail with a Q-tip dipped in alcohol. I then use a microbrush (sold at better hobby shops or through Micro-Mart) to paint the sides of the rail with Floquil's Roof Brown. I prefer that color over Rail Brown. Using the microbrush keeps most of the paint off ot the top of the rail. If any does gather there, I wait for it to dry and they use a brite boy to erase it.
Dale Latham
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I just want to see the crane that installed those giant sheet rock screws!!
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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That was some crane...I just went down to the basement to measure them and they scaled out to 14 feet!
Modeling HO Freelance Logging Railroad.
Hey everybody! Great work so far. Egads!, it's been a while since Ive posted, but I am working away at a few projects. One of them was... well, Ill let you see below.
Recently, on the BWTC, a fairly famous British Extra Terrestrial decided to stop by and view the operation.
The model is a paper "kit" that I downloaded off the internet. It isnt the neatest of models, but all things considered, when you need a microscope to insert the tabs into the slots, it isnt too bad. The "model" is the paper kit reduced to 25% with chopped wooden blocks inside for durability. I did get the scale off by a little bit, so I might print out another one to be a bit larger. Then I can make my own Doctor Who episode, so long as I find appropriate figures.
Happy Modeling!
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
To celebrate the recent completion of my main line trackage, we held a special ops session today for the "Golden Spike Special" made up of cars provided by a number of friends and fans. During the past week cars have been arriving in the mail, including one shipped from a friend serving in the military that's based in Germany.
Today we welcomed a few more traveling cars from modelers who have been following the progress on my layout through my blog, including a couple collected at the Hershey N Scale convention this weekend. The highlight was Bryan Buss'ey's (of Eastern Seaboard Models) magnificent Conrail OCS full dome, shown above just ahead of the PRR full dome Eric220 provided. (Eric's layout is based on a "What IF?" contemporary PRR that spans coast to coast...) Sadly the roster shot I took of this car didn't turn out very well, but we did get a peek inside at the neatly set tables and other details:
Remember, this is N Scale!
Also had cars from Dave Foxx, Mike Delamaiz, Bob Bufkin, and David K. Smith. Sizemore (Tim Alder) was well represented, having painted the F-unit on the point. Phil Hoffman brought along some Spanish prototype cars, but they were unable to be included due to some compatibility issues. According to Phil, this was in keeping with Spanish rail operations... While the layout wasn't built with passenger traffic in mind, we managed to get the Golden Spike Special around the layout in reasonably good order. We didn't ever really reach "track speed" owing to the numerous photo and video run bys requested by the crew. Here's a couple of highlights:Crossing the Potomac from Ridgeley into Cumberland.Passing a freight holed up on the long siding on the Connellsville Sub.Crossing the river into Greenwood, en route to Connellsville.Returning to North Junction at the east end of the layout. Note that the KCS has spotted the Spanish cars near the scrap yard. I'm not sure what this means.The train then headed west again, this time working its way up to Thomas via the Thomas Sub. Here it is leaving the main at Maryland Junction:Restricted clearances made Thomas the end of the run, so the engines turned around, and pulled the train back down to Ridgeley.Here it is drifting downgrade at Shaw as the sun starts to fade.While we didn't get to run many train, we had a great time. It was good to see the layout back in action, although we naturally found a few things to add to the "to do" list. Thanks as always to the crew, who have been such a great support through this whole project.Lee
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