The vast majority of the joints are made with Elmer's Carpenters Wood Glue. Over the course of the build you'll also use some ACC and 5 minute epoxy.
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Texas Hobo
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Thanks for the picture. I can see why you'd want to frame and hang it up. I had a bunch of pictures of trains on bridges that I made into a screen saver. Now I don't use screen savers so I'm not sure what happened to the file. There is just something about a train crossing on a bridge that appeals to me, sort of like certain locos over others (RS3).
GUY -- I came to the realization quite a while back that Locomotives are naturally attracted to all poles!
Thanks for the congrats from all! Here is the little "bugger"!
Sawyer McClay Brenner at 6 days. (McClay is a relative of the Spousal Unit - One of the first Senators from California)
Sawyer McClay Brenner at 6 days. (McClay is a relative of the Spousal Unit - One of the first Senators from California)
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Jaz avalley
Station cat
I definitely agree dark brown or thinned black for crevices, this is sawn foam
this rock outcrop is plaster cast modelled in tin foil that was crunched up part unfolded
these are plastercast sheets, look carefully and you see the give away pin holes where when the p,aster dries it draws back,much better when covered with real sand
layers of cork then painted and varnished
bought cork,now this stuff looks great but costs a lot and if in small pieces is hard to match up
plaster again this time on bought moods
As you can see these are some of my ares on the layout, if I had your result I would be pretty chuffed
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Jaz avalley
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Love the rust effect what did you use,and was a brush dabbed again the sides ?
Jaz avalley
Station cat
Love the water,love the white added for movement and lots of texture to catch the light,and the effect by the rock outcrop,yep love it
moermusic
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have not seen one since I was 15 -- 65 yrs ago !
chadbag
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Made it back home from St George. Not including stops it is about 4 hours. A couple stops to relieve oneself and stretch the legs and for me the feet (getting cramped from staying in the same heel down position when I don't have the cruise on -- luckily the family / wife's Jetta SEL+ has the adaptive cruise and it works well).
Alas, while we were gone it snowed a few inches. Luckily it it was a light powdery sort and some kind soul in the neighborhood ran his snowblower on our driveway (which is just long enough to park a large car or normal truck (1500 short bed size, not mega cab length which will barely overhang the sidewalk) on between the sidewalk and the garage). They blew it all onto the walkway but I won't complain. Much easier to shovel some puffy snow off the steps than the whole driveway.
But it is cold again. St George was either 50s or low 60s during the day (depending on which day) and as low as 36F at night but some nights only low 40s. Here it is probably high 20s nights -- much colder when you get used to the warm "t-shirt" weather
I drank 3 16 oz bottles of Mt Dew (sugar free) going down and 3 coming back. My wife was complaining to me about drinking too much soda (we don't usually have soda at home except for special occasions) but the monotony of driving the freeway makes me tired and I tell her it is better to drink it and stay alert (as much from the act of drinking as from the caffeine I suspect). But it was good to drink a big glass of cold filtered water when I got home. All the yucky chemicals in soda (especially the sugar free ones) are not great for the body though they taste good.
Anyway, enough blabbering. I need to find the power strip I brought with us so I can plug my work laptop back in before it gets to 0% and then get off to bed. Hopefully the caffeine has started to wear off. We've been home 2 hours and the last few Mt Dew swallows I had were about 40 minutes before we got home.
Excited to get back to some train work this week. Try to make some of my wagons that have extra friction work better plus getting back to my throttle program I am writing. I had taken a break on it due to some temporary assignments at work that I thought were going to make me learn a bunch of new programming paradigms and a new language, but they've been having me research and write up the "stories" for things instead -- higher level than writing the code -- so I am getting back to my throttle. I worked a little on it last week. Basically trying to get the actual throttle back to the same functionality my test code had last Fall, but using the paradigm/code organization I want for the whole project instead of an older paradigm I just quickly used for my tests...
Alas, while we were gone it snowed a few inches. Luckily it it was a light powdery sort and some kind soul in the neighborhood ran his snowblower on our driveway (which is just long enough to park a large car or normal truck (1500 short bed size, not mega cab length which will barely overhang the sidewalk) on between the sidewalk and the garage). They blew it all onto the walkway but I won't complain. Much easier to shovel some puffy snow off the steps than the whole driveway.
But it is cold again. St George was either 50s or low 60s during the day (depending on which day) and as low as 36F at night but some nights only low 40s. Here it is probably high 20s nights -- much colder when you get used to the warm "t-shirt" weather
I drank 3 16 oz bottles of Mt Dew (sugar free) going down and 3 coming back. My wife was complaining to me about drinking too much soda (we don't usually have soda at home except for special occasions) but the monotony of driving the freeway makes me tired and I tell her it is better to drink it and stay alert (as much from the act of drinking as from the caffeine I suspect). But it was good to drink a big glass of cold filtered water when I got home. All the yucky chemicals in soda (especially the sugar free ones) are not great for the body though they taste good.
Anyway, enough blabbering. I need to find the power strip I brought with us so I can plug my work laptop back in before it gets to 0% and then get off to bed. Hopefully the caffeine has started to wear off. We've been home 2 hours and the last few Mt Dew swallows I had were about 40 minutes before we got home.
Excited to get back to some train work this week. Try to make some of my wagons that have extra friction work better plus getting back to my throttle program I am writing. I had taken a break on it due to some temporary assignments at work that I thought were going to make me learn a bunch of new programming paradigms and a new language, but they've been having me research and write up the "stories" for things instead -- higher level than writing the code -- so I am getting back to my throttle. I worked a little on it last week. Basically trying to get the actual throttle back to the same functionality my test code had last Fall, but using the paradigm/code organization I want for the whole project instead of an older paradigm I just quickly used for my tests...
santafewillie
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Looking for the new place. Try here.
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