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A couple of things about modelling a harbour and the underwater scenes. 1. Wot is Envirotex??:confused: :confused: Presumably some sort of clear or semiclear finish, possibly rippled(?), to give the appearance of waves? 2. I spent far too long at sea for a living (it's hard to keep the...

The job offer came out of the blue, and realistically it was a matter of take it or find a horse's head in your bed; one of those offers you can't refuse:( . But then it comes with a car and some other side benefits, like cable internet at home, instead of the present steam-driven modem:D :D ...

Woodie, unfortunately instead of being 9 hours down the road from you I'll probably end up 48 hours away in the land of Black Duck beer and very short distances between the rails. We're opening a branch in Perth and I've been asked to run it for a while. Be a shame to have to change from...

I signed up last month as I was about to commence construction of my final,(yeah, yeah, I've heard that before dear!!) layout and wanted to check out the latest thinking. Here I found a site where info is freely exchanged and links are available to a wealth of stuff I might find handy; without...

You can't beat the sound of an EMD 567 and coupled with the sight of a bulldog body it makes for sensory overload. Then make the body a double-ended bulldog, and that's what passes the end of the road where I live 3 times a day. After our rail system was privatised in Victoria not so long ago...

Harking back to the days of real music I still use a Sony TC-540 reel-to-reel tape deck I purchased in Japan in 1970. It sits beside an Akai cassette player that has full metal internals, gearing etc, none of this plastic rubbish that melts the first time the temperature gets over 100F and...

Thanx for the welcome! Like Woodie I come from the Antipodes, although Woodie's from Sydney, just a short 9 hour drive up the road! I'm meandering back to model rail after an absence of many years and am checking as many forums (fora?) as possible, as well as manufacturers' sites, for info and...

I was going to post this in the Academy but couldn't find the "post new topic" button. When modelling a pass carriage, rather than polluting a paint brush with white paint, having just used it for applying another colour on the body, I use "Liquid Paper" or "White Out" to put the white privacy...