I was just wondering, can a member post a short video on this board in the same manner as posting a photo? Just curious.

KT

Anyone here ever deal with Tony's Train Exchange? They have a good deal on an item I want. Even with S&H it's about $9 cheaper than at Walthers. I'm ready to order but have never dealt with Tony's. Just looking for some advice.

Thanks,

KT

I used to do these “Kitbasher’s Diary” threads a long time ago at the old Gauge, & this was one of them… I’m sure some of you have seen these before, but I thought since this is a fairly new site, I’d re-post this one…It probably won’t be of much interest to the “old hands”, but I thought some newcomers to the hobby might get an idea or two from it…

This will hopefully demonstrate how you can take an inexpensive plastic structure kit, & by moving things around, taking some things away, & adding others, you can transform it into something that is unique to your layout…
I’m also hoping to demonstrate how mistakes & flaws can lead you on to even better ideas…


This was an N scale project, but it could be any scale…

Here’s the kit I started with…(keep in mind that the manufacturer’s description of the kit means nothing to the kitbasher…we look at them as simply a collection of parts)



Built per instructions, they’re a bit toy-like…hopefully, we’ll be able to improve on that a little…
The first thing I did was to discard the molded plastic base…this frees you up as to the “footprint” of the structure…
I glued the walls together, & the little annex that’s supposed to go on the rear of the main structure, I attached to the side, keeping the tops of the walls even…



I needed some kind of foundation for the annex now, so I cut some pieces from some HO scale brick walls…I also cut a hole for a door in the main section, rather than using the large arched door assembly that came with the kit…I primed everything with gray primer…



The back wall of the main structure was basically a blank…it was just calling for something, so I fashioned a lean-to addition from pieces of an old Model Power farmhouse kit…Made another little foundation from the HO brick walls…



I painted everything, & glued in the windows…If you look back at the 2nd & 3rd photos, you’ll see a large gap where the annex joins the main structure…I hid this with a chimney I made from styrene covered with Holgate & Reynolds brick sheet…

Ok heres one for you guys and gals, how do you find out what scale speed your loco is doing?

EDIT: This post was originally submitted in January. Shortly after I posted it, it was brought to my attention by several concerned members that the exposure here could hurt my chances of winning if MR were to discover it. With that in mind, I decided to follow the suggested advice and removed it. Now, after 5 months of waiting and not so much as a "thanks for your entry" from them, it has turned out that I didn't win... in fact, I didn't even place. So, without further adieu, let's bring this puppy back.

I've just noticed that after I've run though the View new posts, if I go back and ask for it again I get the same threads plus any new ones but any that I've looked at have a grey ball instead of red.

How do I access a list of photo galleries? I have my own gallery set up, but I'd like to see a list of the other members galleries. I only get recent images or random images when I click on the gallery link. A sticky on how to access the gallery and work its features would be nice.

Galen

Here is a link to some of my train wreck pictures. Some were on PC and then into early Conrail. All were on the Pittsburg Chicago mainline If anyone else has some to share this is the thread.
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Charlie

How about a space in the forum where people can post links to interesting railroading topics? Stuff like the link to the Horseshoe Curve cam, railroad museums, historical background pages, operating passenger short lines, other modeling pages and/or how to pages. Just interesting railroading stuff found around the world wide web. That way they would be collected in one spot and people wouldn't have to go searching through forum after forum to find the links. It wouldn't be for vendors to post links to their hobby shops and such- although, I suppose there could be a separate resources section for that maybe in the market place forums.

I wanted to end the "CP/CN" (Canadian Pacific /Canadien National ) interchange lol on my ( 23" by 11" ) N scale micro layout with a small hill and a tunnel.
I built the microhill using slices of pink extruded styrene glued together with latex caulking.
I covered the hill with a thin coat of hydrocal
My 1st intention was to add some small rock casting, but the hill is so small that they would look out of proportion, then I decided to just paint some rough hydrocal spots to simulate the rocks.
I used Woodland Scenics slate gray wash for simulating rocks
I then painted the hill with some latex tan color and added the ground cover.

This is the result:
rear, bottom front and overall view


Jacques