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These are photos of other backdrops where I did paint treetops. Funny how I can forget things that have worked in the past! Like always trying to reinvent the wheel.

Andrew, they were an afterthought. I first painted the horizon line as a forested hill in the distance, thinking only that I didn't want all sky behind the trees. It wasn't until I had some trees made and standing where they would go that I realized that the area below the lowest branches of...

Thanks everyone, it's a super quick project, yet adds quite a bit to the appearance. Now I have to do about another 8'.

Here's a closeup of the 420, it is really a nice model. I haven't yet added the railings as I need to first add the drop steps and I want to refer to a photo. The drop steps by the way come as two fiddly little parts allowing you to install in whatever position you want. Hence my desire to...

Got my new Atlas C420 today, here it is in a view showing off the tree line.

Here you see it in place and the smaller stuff on the bottom added. I've only added the one so far, i will add others.

Here I am holding it just above where it will go, I will epoxy it in place. The bottom will be out of site, and it doesn't interfere with the existing branches.

I decided I could use wire to glue the clump foliage to to fill in the spaces up top. I stripped some 14 gauge Romex, cut a piece about 2" long, and then twisted some 20 gauge wire around it to form "branches" You could of course solder these together but I took the quicker way of super...

I'm working on a stretch of shelf railroad where I have about 5" of space between the track and the backdrop. As is comonly done, I painted a tree line on the backdrop, then added lots of just trunks. Then I planteda row of trees, Woodland Scenic armatures with all teh branched bent front and...

Seems easy to repair. I'd like to see it make the rounds again, maybe with a graffiti phoenix on it!

It looks awesome! What a great idea.

The readout on the throtle goes from 1 to 100. Using 28 speed steps, each increment will be either 3 or 4 steps. Using 128 speed steps, the increments will mostly be one, but sometimes there will be no change. I believe the applied voltage will still increase, but the display remains the same.

Les, I don't think you need to remove the wheelsets, but if you're more comfortable doing so, ok. If you have the noticable buildup I'm envisioning, a simple scraping (while dry) will suffice. After that, you could give it a quick roll over some paper towel wetted with a cleaner of your...

Les, Scrape off the crud while dry. I just blew off any remaining material after scraping. The crud comes off quite easily while dry. After scraping you could wipe with a paper towel moistened with alcohol, although I don't think it is needed. A cradle would be nice, and help protect...

I haven't read all the posts so perhaps someone has already mentioned this. It makes no sense to attempt to clean the wheels by putting Wahl, or any other cleaner, on the rails. That will take forever as the wheels keep depositing crud on the rails, and it spreads to other wheels. Bite the...

Hi Drew, I did just what you're asking about, for the same reason, I had a splice plate joining two pieces of subroadbed in the way, I used rectangular telescoping brass tubing to extend the throwbar, you can go any lenght you need to. I mounted mine above rather than below, as it will be...

Beautiful photo Drew.

And the reserve's not met! Words escape me...

Me three! Nice shots.

22k seems like an extremely high value. In fact, if the lamp lights with the output of the decoder without a resistor, a resistor along the lines of 180 ohm should work.