10-08-2014, 07:09 PM
I have those exact tiles, except they are on my kitchen backsplash. For whatever reason, that pattern, and ONLY that pattern, are cheap, the other colors were a couple dollars more per square.
For cheap weight - I use pennies. Older ones are heavier. Probably do need something more dense for kits that come without weight, or scratchbuild cars, but for kits that come with weights but not quite enough, a few pennies brings it up to proper weight. A typical Branchline boxcar, for example, needs about 10 pennies. 2 stacks of 5 - I CA them together, then CA the stack on the centerline of the car near the factory weights (which are two large nuts). The covered hopper conversions I'm doing, from Accurail USRA 50t open hoppers, I glued a penny on each flat surface in each bay, combined witht he roof parts and changing the wheels out for metal ones, they are pretty close.
--Randy
For cheap weight - I use pennies. Older ones are heavier. Probably do need something more dense for kits that come without weight, or scratchbuild cars, but for kits that come with weights but not quite enough, a few pennies brings it up to proper weight. A typical Branchline boxcar, for example, needs about 10 pennies. 2 stacks of 5 - I CA them together, then CA the stack on the centerline of the car near the factory weights (which are two large nuts). The covered hopper conversions I'm doing, from Accurail USRA 50t open hoppers, I glued a penny on each flat surface in each bay, combined witht he roof parts and changing the wheels out for metal ones, they are pretty close.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad of the 1950's in HO
Visit my web site to see layout progress and other information:
http://www.readingeastpenn.com
Visit my web site to see layout progress and other information:
http://www.readingeastpenn.com