Well it looks like Interaction Hobbies is continuing with it's tradition of a free Christmas themed kit. Last year I built their Christmas Tree dealer kit. This Year they have introduced their Santa's Workshop kit. It's a free kikt that you get when you purchase 70$ or more of their products. I had a few kits on my wish list so this made me press the order button.

   

It's a cute little kit whose footprint is 3 3/8 X 3 5/8" and apox 2 stories high. 

   

So what you get is laser cut walls, windows, foundation, doors glass and a whole bunch of Cristmas add-ons. I suppose that if you just wanted the building to be a regular shop or garage, you could just leave the Christmas themes off (but what fun would that be?)

   

I started with cutting the walls out of the clapboard siding sheet.

   

Then I added the wall bracing. It's all laser cut as well. On the instructions recomendations, I added some scrap stripwood to block off the lower rafter holes. This makes adding the rafter tails to the right depth easier later.

   

Then I brushed the walls in A&I and I'm letting them dry before painting. The instructions have very good painting suggestions, but I'm doing it a bit differently.

WPMA-40 at Grant Street.

Bruce

   

Today is December 7, 83 years after what was called, "the day in infamy". Please don't forget, it affected more than those at Pearl Harbor, it affected the entire world. I remember that day, I heard the president's speech but was too young to understand, although I remember it as clearly as if it was a week ago.

I saw on Reddit this evening that M. B. Klein is closing 12/15. The Reddit poster states as his source a post on the NMRA Facebook page. Since I am not a member of the NMRA I cannot see anything on the NMRA Facebook pages. I have learned to take what I see on Reddit with a grain of salt.

I know M. B. Klein has been having a big sale for awhile now and suspended their rewards program.

Anyone else hear about the closing?

Ok Guys, I bought a SW9 the other day at the local hobby shop and a shell off of Ebay for the SW9. My problem is that the SW9 shell has a metal tube glued down for the forward facing light. What home remedy can I use to remove the glue without damaging the shell at all or what store bought chemical can be used? I thought about just using a set of plyers but I don't want to break the shell as I can't find another one in the color scheme that it is in.

Having problems downloading my picture this week to the computer, so here's a photo from four years ago.

WPMA-29 has completed its work at the Lower Bank team track.

Bruce

   

I no longer get new post notifications through email. I checked all my settings and it appears fine of Blue and no blocks on gmail. Spam is clear too.
Any suggestions that I haven't tried?
Charlie

Suddenly having track problems on my layout which might be a short circuit. 

The layout and its wiring it ultra simple. Basically, I have two loops. My outer loop is divided into two halves. Power has suddenly stopped getting to the left-hand half. The layout was working perfectly when a train I was running suddenly stopped on this left half. Basically, the transformer lights up as it normally does when power is going to the R/H part of the layout. But, if I turn on (i.e. have power going to) the L/H side, the transformer light goes out. The transformer also gets very hot.

Again, I had not made any changes to the track, etc. The layout was working fine until this suddenly happened.

I have my wires going to an Atlas switch (terminal #205). Is it possible that switch is failing? I've had it for about 15 years.

Thanks in advance!

Rob

My Friend bought this kit a number of years back:
   

And after hanging on to it for this long he decided that he wanted me to build it for him. It's a pretty complicated kit, about 30 scale feet long with a complete interior.

   

There are three sheets of laser cut wood, one small sheet of laser resin board, and one sheet of thicker laser cut basswood. as well as windows, material for the slide, and some printed lettering. The instructions are in color as well.

   

I started by painting the three sheets with flat white, seeing as most of the model will be white.

     

Then I masked and painted the three interior floor parts with gray and tan. I then scribed tile lines into then to simulate flooring.
I'm waiting for some paint to dry before I continure.

Lots of action as usual at the Leetown Mary St. locomotive facility.