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Dremel: great customer service
I bought a cordless Dremel 7300 recently and only used it a couple of times. Now the battery doesnt seem to be charging. The green light on the charger keeps blinking even after being plugged in for about a week. The customer support person I talked to was very nice and said that it should have been fully charged after about 3 hours. They are sending me a new battery pack free of charge.
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ADVICE for weathering
HI, I decide to begin weathering some of my locos, but first I want to practice. I have an old AHM dummy EMD GP18, also is important to say that I do not have all the proper tools, like airbrush, my local hobby shop is very bad with no weathering supplies.
So I decide to use acrylic paint and I found black powder for artist
Here you can see a picture before, and then after
Hand Painting Tools
Awhile back I sat down to paint a bunch of unpainted Preiser figures... little amounts of lots of acrylic colors. I quickly found the repeated color changes & brush cleanings to be time consuming and a pain. I tried a round plastic palette with a dozen or so divots in it... better but it took up valuable space on the bench! Then I came across a GOOD solution! Its called a "Charze 3D Artist Palette",
Ramblings on a Garden Railroad
I have not seen many posts in garden layouts. My interest is a railroad to serve the Lilliputians living among the bushes and around the edges of my yard. This would be designed to operate as any of the smaller scales and based on railroad practices as much as I have knowledge to do. Help here is appreciated.
Please consider following along and provide your input. I am very open to ideas and look forward to a new journey.
Neiler
Let’s see your fascia!
A WPF recently got sidetracked over fascia design and color. I really found everyone’s design and choices interesting. Please post yours here or ideas for making it more attractive, efficient, useful, etc.
Thanks!
Neil
Painting Trains
Early on in my modeling life, there wasn't a box car or a locomotive on my layout that I did not personally paint and decal. I thought it looked more realistic, and it was something i could do in one evening or when i didn't have a layout. Its been some time since i looked for paint - decals (and dry transfers) I have more than i will ever use - but paint i find now is so very hard to find. Floquil is gone, and i don't know where Scalecoat is now.
Grade crossing crossbuck made with 3D-printed jigs
3D printing isn't just for items you see. It's also good for making jigs to file and align parts. Two are needed: one for filing dados into the sign post while the other is to align the post, sign blades and (if needed) multiple track sign. This one is in HO for a Santa Fe prototype suitable for the '30s and '40s.
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