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    painting and detailing

    I bought a Pasche airbrush before Christmas thinkng I was going to do my weatherng with it, but have played around with the pastel chalk method instead, which seems to be working pretty well so far. I've also just bought 2 BNSF GP-38 engines and don't have the guts either to even try weathering...
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    Recent Efforts

    In reading through the posts over the last couple of weeks, it's great to see so many new people coming on board. It's a hobby that can be fun, challenging and sometimes frustrating all at the same time and doesn't take a lot of knowledge or experience. I'm proof of that. I always enjoy looking...
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    New Possibilities!

    Possibilities Check out a post I did on the n gauge forum titled Update. I played around with this software for a couple of weeks and it has helped me come up with a layout that is going to save me a ton of work, mistakes and frustration when I do get ready to start my new layout. Good luck...
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    Update

    Hope everyone had a very merry Christmas season. With a few days off I was able to play a little and do some more research and collecting materials. For anyone working on any kind of layout design, I have a suggestion. In mid December I downloaded some software titled "TrainPlayer" and...
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    CPPE Phase 2 with pics

    The painted track looks eally good, but I have the same question. How did you clean the tracks? I'm guessing a thinner dampened rag over the tops of the rails?
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    Introduction

    BerraF First of all, my wife said to say hi as she is 1/4 Swede. The old layout is 6'x4', but to set it up permanently I'm going to have to downsize it slighly to 5'-4"x4'-0" because I'm not going to be able to leave it set up all the time, so I'm going to start again from scratch and mount...
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    Introduction

    Greetings to all. I registered with The Gauge last night and have really enjoyed reading some of the posts and looking at the pictures of peoples efforts. I have always been interested in model railroading and started an N gauge layout several years ago. Unfortunately it has been covered with...
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