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Demountable trees and shrubberies
While the leaders in our hobby have long moved on to "Supertrees" to create their verdant hills, I still find it expedient to use "puff ball trees" that is balls of polyfibre coated with coarse ground foam. I used to glue them in place with either hot melt glue or "tacky glue". Both certainly work.
Fluorescent lighting - warning about increased fading problems
Hello all,
I've heard that using non shielded fluorescent lighting on a model railroad layout (or used anywhere) can cause serious fading of colors. By non shielded I mean that they don't have a plastic cover over the glass tube to block out / filter the UV rays. For standard perment type mounted fixtures in a drop in tile ceiling they make the plastic sheets to drop in the opening below the florescent tubes that even says in the description that it blocks the UV rays.
Modeling scenes in a fog
Has anyone modeled a scene in the fog?
I model the DM&IR, and a portion of the layout is the tracks down the hill into Duluth, MN and out onto the ore docks in the Duluth harbor. Anyone who visits Duluth with any frequency will encounter the weird weather changes brought on by the hill and the cold waters of Lake Superior. It can be 80 degrees and sunny on top (Proctor ore yards, for instance), and in the fifties, foggy, wet and dreary in Duluth proper.
Model Trains Video Review
I just finished viewing volume #5 of Model-Trains-Videos By Joe Fugate and This 5 DVD series may be the best $100.00 I have spent on Model Railroading in the past 10 years. I have to say I highly reccomend thes 5 Videos to both experenced as well as Beginner Model Railroaders.
I bought the 5 DVD series just before Christmas and Last weekend I finally got to Disk and Volume 4 Scenery and Bridges part 1 last sunday March 14th. On tuesday the 16th I opened the final Disk #5 Scenery and Bridges part 2.
Working on the Railroads...
There is so much going on at the Perry shops!
http://modelrailroadersnotebook.blogspot.com/
I've got two railroads, ten blogs and 5 projects going...the NCI operating club and a baby on the way. Work is getting in the way of my hobby again!
Sergent Couplers on Trueline Rolling Stock
One of the most frustrating parts of installing Sergent couplers is the spring that provides some friction for the coupler in the pocket. Fitting between the coupler post and a slot in the coupler, it can take a few lost springs before getting comfortable with this task.
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