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  1. J

    Weekend Pics

    I need a Plan! I am starting to fill the room with bench work, but I had to put in some scenary to feel line I got something finished. I have no real track plan yet! Help I can't stop!
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    Weekend Pics

    I am starting to make progress. The parking lot to the Round house is 90% complete. :rolleyes:
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    Parking Lot Pic

    I just put in the paking lot behind the round house. I used white foam board. I bent it here and there for to make cracks and since it is used stuff from work the surface is pealed in many places, makes nise pot holes. I sprayed it Dark gray, but it looked like a epoxy painted basment floor...
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    Turnout control idea

    How are you going to make the switch a momentary contact sw? Perhaps some cobinations of 555 timers hooked up as a one shot MV?
  5. J

    One way to acquire kitbashing pieces...

    Next time work with a net!
  6. J

    UK Watercress Line

    I will be in the UK in May. Has anyone been on the Watercress Line in Hampshire? If so is it worth the trip? :cool:
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    This is what happens when you are not LOOKING

    Oh, like none of you haven't had that happen on the old MR!
  8. J

    Gauge layout Party No 5!!!!!

    AGRRRRRRR!!!@#@465^^#&*(***!! :mad: UH Sorry the file was to big. Let me know if you want to see more detials.
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    Gauge layout Party No 5!!!!!

    Pictures???? OK Again :mad:
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    Gauge layout Party No 5!!!!!

    Cheap trucks!!! I found these at KBee Toys for $2.99. The Pacific Fruit truck is a $15.00 Athern model. The Shop Rite I found in Shop Rire , oddly enough $2.99. the rest were $2.99 at KBee toys. I couldent resist the Helicopter. The detial is not quite that of the $15.00 model but it good...
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    NJ MM Train wreck!

    Now the new I am just starting under the steps gowing around the wall till I get back to the steps! :D
  12. J

    NJ MM Train wreck!

    I did it I tore up all the bench work I just finished and started over. This time it around the room not one Big table! It gives me more open area and longer runs. :cry:
  13. J

    Just Killed my first D C C CHIP

    Cooked chip DCC = Dead COOKED CHIP! :curse:
  14. J

    Unknown Track Device

    The club Its the Club for Locos. Anti theft device :D
  15. J

    Time to beef up yard security and head to the paint shop!

    Looks great! Here is a picture it took in N.J.
  16. J

    3 way Turnouts?

    I am using Atlas code 83 track. Atlas does not make a 3 way turnout. Does anyone know who makes one (good one)? :confused:
  17. J

    badly needed engine advice!!!!!!

    Try an Athearn SD70 I have 2. One can pull 20+ cars two can pull every car I own.
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    New Soldering Tool - 'Cold Heat'

    Sodder Yes:sodder is the correct! It is also Aluminum not Alumineum and Zee not Zed! I have had these arguments with some of your countrymen before, however they insist our toilets flush the wrong way! :D
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    Trying to decide

    I once built a 4X8 with folding legs and hinged it to a wall so when not in use it folded down flat against the wall. That might help with the space concideration.
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    It's MONDAY 10-18-04, weekend modeling accomplishments!

    I tore the previously incomplete layout apart and started the new one. I still have to move a cabinet my wife claims shee will be unable to reach with the layout in front of it. What happened? the basment use to be my domain. Woman you can't live with them, you can't fill the basment with trains!