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Posting from Chromebook?

  Hi All,   Anyone using a Chromebook to post to the discussion threads? I was wondering how they work if adding photos from Google photos to the thread post? I was thinking one might be handy to have around the house.......DaveB

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N scale tires from Lego blocks.

Hello

I accidentally found this while I was scratch building a bridge.

Cut heads from Lego blocks.

Backside of head has a dip already.

Drill a hole. File the outer edge of the head.

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Scaling down weight

I'm not sure if this is a Eureka! moment, or if I just reinvented the wheel, but.....

Marklin HO

You can run 2 Marklin battery trains at a time on the same track.  How can you run 3 or 4 at the same time and control all 3 or 4 separately ? Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

Resin Casting with Two Part Molds

A couple years back [yikes, almost a decade!], I encountered a problem with a model where a single set of rear drive wheels was absent from the box.  I wasn't so interested in the rest of the parts that were in the box at that time, but after doing more research over the years, I discovered that this vehicle which appeared to be 1:72 scale was actually the beginnings of a 1:87 M-123 kit bash using the M-25 10-ton chassis and an M-39 series cab.  When further I found out that the M-39 chassis was introduced in 1951 and the M-123 truck was introduced in 1955,

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Fun with Foamcore - build better mock-ups

This blog post will chronicle my adventures with using foamcore for mock-ups and the backdrop.

Craig


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