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Belg, I have one of the cutters from micromark and I couldn't live without it! It works great on balsa, and on thin basswood too (1/32 inch). I've cut 1/6 balsa into boards with it, and also 1/8 and 3/32 balsa into VERY thin strips. Micromark claims you can put another type of blade in it to...

Masonjar, That would only work on two of my three cats, the male cat can't read!

I've heard of putting mouse traps upside down so they bounce up in the air and scare them without hurting them, similarly setting the mouse traps and putting a piece of paper over them so they won't catch a paw or nose. I've heard of the red pepper too, or trays of water. How about one of...

Tell the truth Robin, each of your structures takes you six to eight months to build, you took pictures during the process, and you're just posting them all now, right? Please????? Seriously, amazing, simply amazing, and more so with each new project.

Robin, How is it you seem to be the only one who can get any work out of your LPB's? I have to threaten mine with the sprue cutters just to get them to stay where I put them!

Robin, You continue to amaze me, not just with the quality of your work but with your speed. It seems you never come up for air, and you must have folks for miles around saving cardboard for you! Given the quality and speed of your work, if "practice makes perfect" I'd say you're just...

For me it's HO, my fat fingers and eyes that've spent the last 20 or so years being hit by radiation from computer screens just aren't up to the demands of N. In addition I'm a dedicated steam nut, and until recently there just weren't many steam engines out there in N. Someday I'd like to...

Wow Robin! I was away for a week and you finished the glass company and started a potash mine! I am, as always, simply amazed.

You could go my route and model a ficticious branch of a real railroad, which give me the Central New Jersey's Millbrook Branch

I saw an almost-accident one day on my way to work. I take a commuter train, and to get from the parking lot to the platform you have to cross the tracks. People must think I'm crazy because I always check both directions before I cross, but anyway, I digress. One day last winter this woman...

Gary, Thanks for the offer, but I suppose part of my experimenting will be in cutting the PC boards. I'm assuming I can cut them with a untility knife, if that don't work there aren't many things you can't cut with a Dremel and a cut-off disk. I'm fairly sure that hand-laying is the way...

Belg: Thanks for the hobby shop recommendations, I'll have to have a look. For everyone else, I took a look at radio shack and they have double-sided PC boards that should serve my purposes, there was no price on them though :confused: and I didn't feel like waiting on line just to get the...

Robin, And no doubt your methods for correcting your big goof will be instructive to the rest of us as well. We've all had goofs in our modelling efforts, and sometimes you just have to trash the whole thing and start over. That's part of the fun of model railroading, experiment with...

No, I'm not kidding! Belg, Nope, HO scale for me. Havn't started construction yet, but one of these days I will. Once I have something worth showing I'll be happy to have you by to see! I don't suppose you can recommend a good hobby shop in the area, can you? I've been to HiWay Hobbies...

Gary, I'm in River Edge, NJ. That's in Bergen County, next door to Hackensack and Paramus.

Since you folks were so helpful with my last question on hand-laying track, here's question number 2: Where can I find PC-board ties, preferably mail-order. I want to try some hand-laying, especially turnouts, and I can find all the stuff I need at First Place Hobbies online, but can't...

I have to admit that every morning I just HAVE to check this forum to see your latest progress, and I'm always absolutely amazed at what you accomplish. You are a true master of the art of model railroading.

Robin, I've said it before, I'll say it now, and I'll undoubtedly say it again, your work is absolutely amazing. Every time you post pictures of a new project you raise the bar. If I were wearing a hat I'd tip it to you. If I had a glass of beer in front of me I'd raise it to you. If I...

OK, in the next few weeks I expect to start layout construction, so it's getting to decision time on track. I picked up a book over the weekend (I forget the exact title, but it was on trackside detail, by Kalmbach), and there was a chapter about hand-laying track. It SEEMS like something I...

No duckunder on my layout (mostly because right now no layout, and when I do have one it'll be along two walls of a room, so still no duckunder), but I've cracked my head on my garden shed a few times. The shed is about as tall as I am, so the door is about shoulder height and every once in a...