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Hey guys, I know I haven't been around much, but I thought I would chime in with this - my latest creation. It is an HO scale baby grand piano made for Val's HO Scale Hotel project. It's made completely from cardstock, posterboard, and paper over the course of 3 nights.

I'm posting this for another gauge member 'Olderscout' (with his permission, of course!) who emailed me these pictures of a Wendy's he is currently building inspired by the thread I started months ago. He was having trouble with the attachments so I resized them below the limitations and am...

This is an American Model Builders Tower kit in N scale. I started to put it together last night, but it got pretty late and I was unable to finish it. This is as far as I got:

Over at a new buddies place and we spent all yesterday and part of today making this mountain. Getting it into the corner of his layout was not an easy task and required 3 hands, wood glue, a vacuum cleaner tube, pins, needlenose pliers, and other "unorthodox" items. :D (Don't ask.) Anyway...

Went to this train show today... had a bunch of vendors and some cool stuff to see! I took some pictures of the layouts there so I will post some of the neater pictures here for all to enjoy! :D And now, in no particular order... I think this one was from an under construction layout in HO...

I guess it's that time again... time to start up a new project! At first I considered doing a mini-mall with a main store like a Best Buy in the center... but doing a little research I realized that it would take quite a lot of space... It would fit, but I don't want it to be the focal point of...

We got some birthdays! Let's give a warm congratulations to Catt! and narrowsteam! Happy Birthday fellah's!!! Hey Catt! Now you've got an excuse to pick up another FP45! Just say it's your present! ;)

I've decided to try my hand at painting those little plastic folks. My Preiser set of railroad workers have been worked to the bone! Need to start populating my railroad structures with permanent residents! Thanks to Jon-monon for the link to Brian Fayle's Figure Painting Website. I've taken...

Couple nights ago, stopped by a trackside derailment with a friend and snapped up some pics. By this point it was already cleared up and moved aside, but pretty devastating none the less! This particular photo looked like art to me, so I will start with this one for tonight. :D

Went to radio smack yesterday to pick up some thinner awg wire (been using 20 awg and you saw how bulky it was in the gas station) and thumbed through their electronics selection. I was looking for a "modular" means to wire my structures (as opposed to using tape and pressing stuff with my...

Some of you have seen this (either on the chats or on the Atlas forum) but I think many of you have not. Earlier this year (2003) I started building my house in N scale for a garage layout I was working on with a friend of mine. (We were each going to put our homes on the layout.) However, that...

Anyone going to this? Information: http://www.greatamericantrainshow.com/maps/FTL12-03/FTLTInfo/FTLInternet%20Copy.htm Would be cool to meet some of you, but I doubt this is local to anyone here but me.

I was looking for graphics on the net for the interior of the gas station, when I came across something I thought would be quick and easy to make... Sure was! :) A nice quick 15 minute project. (Well, if you only count assembly.)

Wow, lot's of active members having birthdays this month! And to think, tomorrow is my wife's birthday as well! A big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to ya, Charlie! :thumb: :wave: :cool: :D :p

While watching TV, I have one of the famous SPEEDEEZ cars on my desk and I was pushing it back and forth... er... observing it's inertia ... yeah... I was NOT playing with a toy... I was experimenting... yeah, that's it! Anyway... Pushing it at an angle, I would notice that it would...

We got some birthdays today! southernho (39) and Mellow-Mike (47) Happy Birthday to you two! :D :D

To keep my sanity, I tend to work on several projects at once. Helps alleviate the monotony that could be encountered along the way, but causes the problem of having many unfinished structures! Well, I've always wanted to make a modern day gas station, and surfing the net, I found the coolest...

One night on the chats, we were swapping ghost stories, and so I related to the group an event that happened to me a while back. This is where the Aaaallllleeeeexxxx reference comes from. On my life, I swear that the following story is 100% true. ========================================...

As promised, I documented my process of laying cork roadbed where turnouts are concerned. I will try to explain to the best of my ability. But, before we begin, here are a couple of tips: One, when you split the cork apart, you will notice that one side comes out pristine, while the other...

There were 6666 threads, thought that was creepy! So I had to go and change that! :D