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Wow, Shamus... that is incredibly good! You know, I just had an idea that I would love to see you try... ever thought about getting something that emits smoke (something that won't damage your stuff or leave a stink of course) and try to emulate fog in your photos? WOW what an image that...

Thanks guys. Though, the size (They are N scale, by the way) may at fist seem daunting (it did for me!) in actuality they were quite easy. The difficulty in painting figurines (for me anyway) comes when you have to worry about not "coloring outside the lines." The more times you have to dip...

Nice locomotives, the weathering is slight and doesn't overpower the model. Good job. Your backdrop trick reminds of me when my dad first let me use his 35mm camera as a kid... I would take pictures of flowers and rocks in the yard before I came up with the idea to pose my G.I. Joe figures in...

We got some birthdays! Let's give a warm congratulations to Catt! and narrowsteam! Happy Birthday fellah's!!! Hey Catt! Now you've got an excuse to pick up another FP45! Just say it's your present! ;)

And here is Olga... This one also took me about 10 - 15 minutes to do. Try to look at it from a distance, as this is how they will be seen on the layout. The colors tend to blend at about a foot away, and at more than that they look very realistic. Zoomed in like this they look rather...

Say Hello to Guillermo ;) I painted this guy bald and he looked so much like my father-in-law that I just had to give him that name. I am getting a bunch of seated figures ready to populate my next scratch-build - a Wendy's Hamburger joint - and so he's got his white hankie tucked in so he...

Brian Fayle's advice is to paint the figures black. This will serve as the dark shadows and you dry-brush the color on top of this, careful to leave the shadow areas black. (See his website for details.) This is contradictory to the practice I've learned from wargaming, but I decided to try it...

I've decided to try my hand at painting those little plastic folks. My Preiser set of railroad workers have been worked to the bone! Need to start populating my railroad structures with permanent residents! Thanks to Jon-monon for the link to Brian Fayle's Figure Painting Website. I've taken...

Great project! That wall looks especially great! I sure hope you plan to put some stuff growing on it! :D

Cash Only (Paying with cash so the "Dear" doesn't see the expense on the credit card!)

Racharg, This is something I can help you with. I searched on google, and came across a calculator for resistance for LEDs, but doing the math myself, I got the same answer... here's what I assumed and what I came out with: In electronics there is a basic formula for DC currents: V = IR...

Here we go... found one that shows a lot of cars... in this photo I count 6 cars, so I would venture to guess that there could have been 7 or 8. I do believe they were all hoppers, however.

Hmmm, that's a good question. I didn't really take the time to count them... it was pretty dark at the time but I would say at least 5, maybe 6 or so... I'm clicking through the pictures to see if one of our "nightshot" ones came out with a view of all the cars. It looks like some of them were...

Sante Fe

WIRING GIZMO I've created this little aparatus for my structures. After some experimentation (and phone consultations with my brother, Mr. Physics) I've come up with this "modular" way to wire my lighting. The contraption consists of one of the blue clips with one lead connected to the feeder...

The original photos are 2 megs each, so clicking on them even from DSL takes a while. I'll try to do one or more each visit until I've got all the good ones posted. ;) It's sort of like opening presents. I click one - I don't know what I will get. Today it looks like a pair of trucks - more...

Super Mario Bros.

I myself came from the Atlas forum. One of the Gauge members posted an open invitation to the Gauge Chatroom (and subsequently received a bombardment of flames) and since then I was hooked! Met Rich, Conrail_1, Spitfire, Blake, N_Gauger... what better welcoming committee could one ask for? :D...

Well, I have successfully fried one of those LEDs tonight! Lesson learned? NEVER pump 15 volts through your LEDs unless you like to see it flare up inside and reek of smoke! :oops: :rolleyes: :p

Another view: I call this the "Cemetary of Wheels"