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Hi all, I was sure you'll like this cute little engine. doctorwayne, I think so, I'm not an expert on steam locos. I think two steam and two sand domes. Some technical data: Baureihe (class) 99.77 wheelarangement 1'E'1h2 (1 unpowered axel, 5 powered, 1 unpowered, superheated steam, 2...

Hi Deano, A lot of cool big ones. Here is a more midget like loco. Two weeks ago I had the chance to ride one of Germanys few remaining narrow gauge lines. Most of them operates steam locos, the one I rode steam only! Can you believe, it was a present from my mother-in-law!!:thumb: Was a cool...

Hi Deano, thanks for your kind words. As a loco nut you sure can understand how I strong suffer:cry:. But on the other side, had the tickets in the mail yesterday! We're going only for a bit more than a week, we're going to CSX and NS country. Good to have three months to stock up with video...

Hi Don, good to see you back on the 'track'. Here some 'get well flowers' from across the big pond. :wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave::wave:

Hey, one engine is better than none, much better!!!!sign1 Hey Deano, you're on the right way! Better than me, I had to reduce the number of locos and sold 4 of them.:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:! And more of them have to go:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:! And...

Hey EZ, get better quickly. The-gauge is not the same without you. Best wishes for a speedy recovery from good ol' Germany.

Hi shortliner, wow, You've built a lot of them. I searched the internet quite a while for a how-to on palm trees. I never found your website, it would have saved me a lot of time!!:thumb: And Deano, thanks for your kind words:wave:. I'm still building more and trying other techniques. I used a...

Outstanding Deano, MR or other publications couldn't have done it better!!! But I bet we will see something similar in one of them soon, LOL!!!

Thanks Jim! I painted the trunks brown, it's the first layer of paint. After adding the paint to the trunks, they look more like real palm trunks. The background is a "desert grasmat" made by Preiser loooong loooong ago. Found it today in a lhs in a neighboring village, hidden in a corner. Cool...

Sorry for the poor quality of the photos, I had to use the cell phone camera. The trunk needs some paint and some dull cote. I paid 5€/6$ for the aquarium/terrarium plant, the trunk can be made from wood, wire or what ever looks suitable.

- Bend the trunk. - Cut the leaves from their trunks. - Prepare different sizes of leaves. - I started with some of the bigger ones and glued them around the trunk. They will support the other leaves when glued on. - Because of the vinyl the leaves are made of, ca glue don't work well. I used a...

Hi, I was in need for a few palm trees. Only a few commercial produced are available and those are announce1EXPENSIVE! I found only Heart of the South Models, Woodland Sceenics and Preiser making palms. Preisers palms are the cheapest of all three (in Germany), you get 4 for 10€ as kit. But if...

Hi, just voted with a little help from my wife. I'm happy because my wife has no problem with the hobby. She owns a few locos (steam and diesel) and a tripple set of Athearn RDC's. I recently started to collect some n scale stuff, because of no space for a H0 layout and she HATES it. Quote: "We...

announce1 I agree, the BL-2 is definately the ugliest american diesel loco! eightyeightfan1, I've got a new cell phone with a built in 2 mega pix camera a while ago. Not as good as a real camera, but I've allways a camera with my!:thumb: It has no optical zoom, but a digital zoom function...

Hi, German manufacturer Faller did a brick jail/prison as special edition in 1999, including light and sound effects, Preiser inmates, wardens and moving inmates on the prison yard. Price on eBay is somewhere around $200. Don't know about other kits. The two photos were taken at...

Here's one my GE's, Amtrak P42DC in Phase IV paint, blue box with a few extra details and sound.

Hi beegor, a few years ago Faller made a mini golf course in H0 and there is a Merten/Preiser set #2462 with 6 figures and 18 simple fairways. I found the later on eBay Germany...

Hi, a few more photos. I start with a few photos of the area around the Miniaturwunderland and view into Hamburg's main station.

Hi Deano, The UP 1260 is a SW10, the SW10's are rebuilts of SW7's, SW9's and TR5A's. They were rebuilt at Omaha shops between 1979 and 1984 using parts from scrapped GP7 and GP9. There is a how to in Diesel Modeler's Guide Part 1, pages 93 to 95 . Looks not that difficult if you use screens...

Hi :wave: , most of the bigger parts are on the shell now. I will leave the screen over the radiators off until I've finished the paintjob. The radiators will be painted black and then masked until the rest is finished. I also added the marker lights on the front and a few other details like...