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Collyn Prior to shimming check you have not just pinched the track down to tight with your trrack pins < or spikes depending which continent you reside on :) > Failing that back the pins off slightly using the sharp blade end of a flat screwdriver and use a short piece of paper tucked under the...

Ah sorry that wasn't it prodigy2k7 :( Try doing those advanced searches though, they do come up with some pretty interesting ways of creating the effect you want, maybe it will return in that list.

Try this one http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=18618&highlight=hill+son Hope this is what you were talking about. I found it by doing an advanced search with the keywords , plaster/paint/ brush and also son / hill/ layout. It returned some other great layout threads you might want to...

Was it the one where his 14 y.o son created a really marvellous looking hill ? Then he ripped some of the layout up to start again ? If it was I think I read read it last night going through some of the earlier threads. I'll see if i can go back through the one's I visited and pick it out. Shame...

Thanks Jeffrey, loved it, especially as I"m like Herc Driver, flying the planes to pay for the trains. Trust me that link is going to a few flying buddies :)

Sorry you got burned on Ebay SeriousSam, just curious as to why you kept the item when it was not what you really expected ? Corniche has some good advice in his post, there are ways to get your money back if you had really wished to, and as you paid "same day" I'm guessing you did use paypal...

Hi Steve. Cheapest place I've found so far is cherrycreek hobbies. Sorry can't find the link to paste it here. They were almost half the cost of my local model shop and a bit cheaper than every other online source I found. The only drawback was the cost of postage. I found I had to buy at least...

Cramped conditons.... Here's what my Dad did for me many years ago. I had a smallish room as a boy and it worked really well for me until he was kind enough to board the attic for me as my layout grew. He attached a strip of timber to the wall for a spacer and this was perfectly level. To that...

Hi there everyone. I'm new to the forum so I thought I would tell you a bit about the layout I have planned. It's basically a 2+2 double oval (2 up,2 down) with the two ovals coming together at two places on the layout. One a large through staion, the other a large switching and changover...

Hi there all. I wondered if anyone could give me some advice please on arcing occurring on some of my points and crossovers. It is not all of them, just one or two of them in a particularly congested switching area and not all of the time and only some of the locos. The points are all Peco 100...