Scenery - Structures
HO Vehicles with turning wheels? Where to buy?
Does anyone make HO scale highway buses, trucks, automobiles, vans or anything on that order with turning wheels? I don’t mean wheels that just rotate, but wheels that rotate and also turn left and right. Faller comes to mind, but the price point is beyond my comfort zone and budget.
I have stumbled all over the Internet, but can’t find anything besides Faller.
Gene
Code 55 & Code 80 Joint Bars in N Scale - Is there any interest?
In the comments on my post post about HO Code 55 & 70 Joint bars, I was challenged to create an n scale version.
My question is: "is anybody in N Scale actually interested in such a thing?"
I made some test cuts. If there is interest, I will release the product...
Put yourself into your layout?
I came across this outfit in a San Jose mall (Valley fair). http://web.twindom.com
Engine House
Next Up:
My layout (tentative name LT&SS) will feature geared steamers, so there needs to be a service area. That includes the water tank, of course and some sort of engine house. The pike is too small for much, so this single stall model from RSLaserkits is ideal.
Maybe this won't be the comedy the water tank was.
pqe
I bought a cheap static grass applicator...
$30 what the heck. It is battery powered, but now I am thinking about making it a plug in and upgrading the ION generator.
Do you think it will make a big difference, or should I just stick with the set up the way it is?
Jim Lowery
Building a Better Cactus
Today's post over on the Thunder Mesa Mining Co. website is all about modeling saguaro cactus. Hope you'll click on over and check it out.
Dave
South Main Mine Mock Up
Further to coming at it from another direction, I finally got the benchwork/shelf completed for the South Main mine headframe area and figured I should mock up what the headframe might look like. Using my favourite apple juice tetrapacks as the Ore and waste bin area and the container from a fine single malt scotch along with some diced tomato cans for the headframe I came up with the mock up in the pictures below. Some extra foam chunks were used to rough in the steel lattice framing footprint on the headframe.
Rivarossi 5104 Turn Table
I just came across an old turn table that I had stored away and forgotten about. It is the Rivarossi 5104 model and is complete with pit, bridge and control box. The control box is wired into the bridge but I can't figure out how to wire the control box to a power supply and whether the required power is fixed AC or fixed DC from the power pack.
Internet searches have proved useless. References to an article in Model Railroader, Jan.1980, keep popping up but it relates to modifying the track wiring not to initial hook up.
Using Lego Bricks for Square Corners
Getting 90 degree corners on structures is not particularly easy. Some time ago, I realized I could make it much easier using something that I still have tubs of laying around from my childhood: Legos. The blocks are perfectly square and can be attached with cyanoacrylate adhesive (CA) to every plastic or styrene surface that I've ever used.
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