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    Ceiling tiles for mountain sides

    I have just finished phase 1 of getting my basement ceiling in order for a train room and have a large number of scrap pieces of Armstrong ceiling tiles left over. I have seen somewhere that the edges make interesting mountain sides or "cuts". The ragged edges look like they have potential...
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    Painting Water?

    Cueing off Gavin Miller's thread in the academy on painting a backdrop and distant mountains, does anyone have any uggestions as to how one can paint water (in from of those lovely mountains)? The Rutland's yard in Burlington, Vermont was on Lake Champlain, with the mountains of New York...
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    Blue skys

    I have read Galvin's excellent account of painting clouds on a backdrop but have two questions. Is the blue first painted on the backdrop a uniform blue or should it be darker at the top and lighter as it descends to the earth? If the latter, how does one achieve this without a spray gun using...
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    The world's best layout?

    For a facinating week by week documentation of the building of the Minatur Wunderland layout in Hamburg, Germany take a look at http://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/html/framepage.htm The benchwork is especially interestng. Donn
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    New Layout Space with Puzzle

    Hi All, This is my first post to the Track Planning Forum, which I have recently discovered at precisely the right moment. I am about to begin building a layout in my basement, which present an interesting problem that you might be able to help me with. First, a few specifications. I...
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    Mixing Peco and Walters/Shinohara Curved Turnouts

    The lack of Peco curved turnouts---there seems to be only the medium with ca.17"/20" and a large with 30"/60" radi---is a frustration to one who need exactly whatl falls between their two options. Walters (made byShinohara) has four: #6-1/2 Curved Turnout; Inside Radius 18", Outside Radius...
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    Wiring for Tortoise Switch, Peco Turnouts, and LEDs.

    I am looking for a very BASIC and CLEAR diagram of how to wire two Tortoise switchs to two Peco turnout that includes (a) one DTDP switch, (b) two bi-directional LEDs on the control board, (c) two bi-directional LEDs, one next to each of the two parallel tracks joined by the turnouts, all of...
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    NCE decoder D14SRP in a Spectrum 2-8-0

    I am about to install NCE decoder D14SRP in both a Spectrum 2-8-0 and 4-8-2. Is there anything I need to do with the light bulbs? Or anything else that is required?
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    Measurements on Peco Turnouts

    Peco lists their turnouts as small, medium and large. How does this match with the usual difference between 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8? More importantly, what are the radii of the curved track on the turnouts? If someone has a home page address for Peco that would be helpful; I have not been able to...
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