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What does everyone use to spread their plaster mix on the foam/plaster cloth terrain features with? I am using a paint brush and the mix seams to harden on the bristlesof the brush long before the mix in set.Causing it to spread rather poorly. Any tips you vetrens can offer me would be great!!!

I have finally started getting some work done on the layout. The weather is nice so i can open up the doors and windows and finally paint some track. Here are a few to see the difference between the painted and stock Atlas flex track. There also are more pictures of my progress on my web page.I...

I have started reconstructing the corner mountain. First I have moved the supports further apart to create 2 tunnel portals coming thru a valley and then back into the mountains to complete the loop back down to the lower level. Plus I have started stacking foam insulation to make the large...

Only real advice i can give you is.Buy a good quility Locomotive on its own.Loco's offered in sets usally are not the best.Sets tend to give you controllers that again are lower quility and track pieces that you may never use.I built my first model railroad about 20 years after my youth days of...

For my yard tracks i layed a sheet of cork the entire length of the tracks and joined up with the mainline roadbed.

On the hill thru the straight tunnel section is about a 2.5 to 3% grade,with 1 kato SD40 i can pull about 16 cars with minimal troubles.But if i tandem up the engines i can pull well up to 30 cars.

Here is a few examples trhat my wife did with paint markers and gel pens.Once i like what she has done i will give her a few of my Cdn grain cars to do,then seal with dullcoat and weather.

Yes I have been running trains on it for about 2 months now.Been busy fixing some of the track work and getting started on the scenary now.I am waiting for the summer before i paint the rails,as the last time i tried that with an airbrush there was so much fumes from the paint,and was a little...

Changing mountians in corner I pulled the screen of the original mountains and cut new pieces of wood to support the new screen. Also added a few pieces of foam and plaster rock casting to see how it looks. And have slowly started the plaster cloth on the remainder of the mountains am trying...

I guess maybe from my comments earlier,and the posts that followed i may just have to give the new N Scale Life Likes a try.

I would have to agree with most everyone here.That it would be the Kato's then the Atlas'.I have 2 older Kato Sd40's that work perfect for me and a Atlas GP9 and a Gp35 that i wont' complain about either.Also a Model Power F7 that is noisy but runs smooth and pulls pretty much anything. I...

moving along I have made some great progress on the layout in the last few weeks,i will post some pics in the next week to come.In the mean time here is a picture of the track plan.Its a little crued trying to use Atlas RTS to duplicate the layout.But i think everyone will get the idea

This might have been already said,but I have a shop compressor for mechanics.So i bought a portable air tanh and regulater fitted it with a water seperater and quike disconnects for the air brush hose.I fill the tank up to 100psi and dial my re to about 20psi and i have plenty of air to do...

Bob ask me anything you need to know about this layout.Also this one is now discontinued so to speak.Check out my new layout aswell.Just send me a pm sometime. http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=12791

Progress on the rails Haven't done any huge changes but have been makeing it more user friendly when i have to reassemble it after i move.And make it easier to install insulated rail joiners.Also have installed a single crossover so i can go from outside line back to inside track without having...

The track is Atlas flex and sectional track with non insulated Shinohara switches.Which i don't really like,but as time and money become more i plan to replace the curved switchs with peco c80 curved ones.Also the 2 triple ladders in the yard are a one piece triple.So i hope i can find an...

My old layout has been retired to the garage to make room for a 14ft x 4ft dog bone module layout.I bought this off a friend that hadn't completed it.It has all the fetures i was hoping to build in my first layout attempt.But really didnt know how to design it.So i will put my efforts forward...

Dwight77,yes a 3 postion momentary.I place them in the panel so when i push on the switch my train would take either the left or right route.

I use a 3 position momentary mini toggle switch for all my turn outs.They costed me $3 cdn each here in Alberta.But they are worth it,I drilled my control panel and placed the switch at the corrasponding location.

when mixing water and soap solution for wetting of ballast or ground foam,how much soap to water is added?Also after adding soap do you shake the solution to mix it all togeather or what. Im just startint to paint and ballast a test track before i do my layout. Any help would be great.