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Fortunately, elevation drawings for this station can be found in the October 1978 issue of Model Railroader, so I didn’t need to go out and do my own measurements. Getting a copy of the elevations and then ordering the needed parts took up a lot of time, so I’m getting really late start. I’m...

Ok, I don’t think that I’m going to finish this project by September 15th, but I’ll post updates anyway. This scratchbuild is based on an old Erie RR station in Avon, NY. Today it houses a bar. We just bought a house about ½ mile from this station and I thought it would be a cool model. I’ve...

:thumb::thumb::thumb: A very cool project. The painted up version looks really good, and I can't wait to see the finished scene.

Would anybody be interested in starting up a new challenge? It's been about six months since the end of the Atlas Tower challenge, and I've been having a hankering to get started on a project... My proposal is for an open-ended "Depot challenge" with the following guidelines: The aim of the...

I had a similar problem -- as far as I could tell, some site that I visited changed my default settings so that everytime a new window would open, it would be 1/4 the size of a full window. A real pain. If you're using explorer 6.0.2 with Windows XP, under Tools menu there's a "Reset web...

Aside from price and the lack of color choices, I think there are probably practical reasons not to use toner. Since toner is a microscopic plastic product that is statically charged and bonds under heat, I suspect you would unleash a world of trouble with it gumming up the running mechanisms of...

Plastruct makes vaccum formed plastic sheets of regular brick and distressed brick in HO scale. The Walthers number is 570-91605 (rough brick) and 570-91611 (regular brick). I used this material on my Gauge kitbash challenge earlier this year, and I describe the issues working with it...

The website for the model train exhibit at the Ringling Circus Museum in Sarasota, FL is: http://www.ringling.org/circus_museum.asp I visited this museum earlier this year. They have a massive 3/4" scale circus train model that has taken Howard Tibbals the better part of 40 years to put...

I hear you on those Atlas figures -- they're cheap but really bad in almost every respect. And they don't clean up much when painted. I also found that they're made of a much stronger plastic than the Preiser figures, so it's almost impossible to frankenstein them without losing one of your...

From Russia with Love. James Bond escorts a female Russian defector and a code-breaking device out of Istanbul on the Orient Express to Trieste. This was all filmed on a replica train built on the backlots at Pinewood Studios. This is one of my 10 favorite movies.

If you are an ebayer, you can sometimes get a great deal on older issues of some RR magazines. I picked up 80 issues (almost seven full years) of Railroad Model Craftsman from the 1960s-70s at Christmas time for less than $50 plus reasonable shipping. RMC has some narrow gauge feature and a...

Deleted the old cookie, and all is good now. Thanks, Peter, for the quick reply.

Is anyone else having to resign in with a user name and password whenever they visit the gauge? I used to just be permanently logged in, but today whenever I come to the gauge from a new explorer window it doesn't recognize me and I have to reenter the user name and password. I also lose my...

I read in another forum that the Malibu cars at WalMart are a product that Model Power used to offer. When their contract with Model Power ended, Malibu (a China-based company) dumped them at clearance rates to Wally World. They are, as others have pointed out, dead on 1/87 scale. These seem to...

Do you have any plans to put some of your surplus little green men to work? Just be careful, we wouldn't want the LPINS to bust you for employing illegal aliens...

Some excellent and inspiring modelling going on here. We've got a number of similar water-based industrial sites in my neck of the woods, and you've got the look down. I can't wait to see that mill run with some whitewater coursing through it. Cool stuff.

I think the backdrops with the clouds look really good. I always have problems making clouds look right, but those look just about dead on.

I got my printed copy of the winner's certificate today and wanted to send a big public thank you to Don (EZ) Day. The certificate looks great and I really appreciate the time that you spent on it. Another reason that the Gauge is a great place to hang out. Thanks!!! bounce7 bounce7 bounce7...

Now the bad news. While working on cutting some styrene for the boxcab last night, I sliced 1/4" off the end of my left index finger with the handy dandy xacto knife. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: So after 6 hours in the ER, I’m all bandaged up and done with modeling until the stitches...

I started working last weekend on the gas-electric. This is based on the photos here: http://www.ironhorse129.com/rollingstock/builders/hicks_loco_special.htm My version is significantly compressed (from 35’ to approx 25’). It’s a basic structure: essentially a box made from scribed basswood...