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if you ar not liooking for corrigated siding then heavy aluminum foil pressed on a piece of board and batten siding will give you the affect your after you could also use the thin copper foil that they sell at craft stores (what its used for i coulden't tell you) use a stiff bristled brush to...

:wave: welcome to the gauge :wave: there the coupler clips i think , can't help you with the model shop :(

been back at it the first pic is starting to assemble the sides , the second pic the walls are assembled and starting to build the porch.

Catt i looked at the high priced one too and drooled :)

Don hard to belive this is your first scratch build :D looking great

:wave: welcome to the gauge :wave: sounds like you still might have a level problem. have you sighted down the stock rail to see if there is a hump or a twist in it ?

go to http://photoswest.org/ in the search type in CF&I if i rember they have a lot of photos on the mill in Pueblo.

:wave: welcome to the gauge :wave:being new to model railroading i would caution you on trying to build a large layout the first time . You might think about srarting with just one 4 by 8 table then by leave the track plan open for expansion you can then add the other tables as your skills...

Andrew i tried getting my wifes rotary cutter and got my knuckels smacked with a coark backed ruler :) 88 the thickest i can do on this one is .060.

what era are you modiling there use to be a milk car or two on the head end of local passenger runs they had high speed trucks early on there were trains of just milk cars as a kid i can (just) rember my great uncle hauling cans of cream to the cordon depot to be loaded( i think) on to the...

Don the one Michael's has is not a rotary and it is higher priced , i got mine at Staples you might also try office Max.:wave: .With the one i got I have been able to make .035 cuts off the end of .040 styrene thin stuff like .010 cuts clean with 2 passes.

Cid the one i got was 10$ but the 12 " is only 14 or 15$ that is the size i would recomend

announce1 I think I have have discovered the wheel again:D might not be the first modeler to stumble on this but in doing the #1 challange cutting the styreen sheets was not going well . the other night at chat Catt and i talked about using a rotary paper cutter for scoring the sheets before...

looks like you have headed in the right direction .

unless a twister,fire or other disaster hit a town most downtown's of small town's anywhere have not changed much from the 50's or 60's lived in one small colorado town that the newest building in the downtown was built in the 1920's. we lived there in the late 90's all the buildings were...

Miles try a place called Yardbird classic trains on line they have a line of white metal detial parts at a nice price.shipping is also good . Steve nice looking bash there. :)

humm i think someone has been bitten by the scratch building bug :) nice barn.

I'm doing some company houses for the scratchbuild challange using modified flag stop depot plans from a old (1963) book, posted a set of my modified plans.Would be a easy first venture into scratchbuilding.:)

great find :) the paints look like tube art colors will say on the tube at to oil or acrylic if acrylic they can be use for modeling .

my great uncle always said that two fingers of good whisky was the best cold cure:)