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The interest of children will be peaked only by exposure to the hobby. I built my son a table for his wooden train track and brio stuff. after we created the ultimate track plan and glued it in place, he stopped playing with it. Most of his fun was in putting together a track. I sold the...

Rory, you're right, It has been a long time since I watched Star Trek. <grumble-grumble-rivet-counting-so-and-so-grumble-grumble>:D :D :D

Wow! when I get tired of modeling railroads I model 1:1 scale stuff for the house. I usually get tired of modeling when my wife starts talking about me sleeping in the room with the trains.:D

I used the white bead board for my layout. (3 X 6 'N' scale). I started everything with 3/8" plywood and then glued the sheets of beadboard on to it for the scenery. While shaping the contours, I used a sharp knife and vacuumed as I went. for the final shaping I used Drywall compound and...

Damnit! Bones, this is a friendly club not a rivet counting overstuffed forum! ;) Oh, right, you already picked-up on that. I realy just wanted an excuse to say "Damnit! Bones." Welcome to the Gauge. -Questions answered all hours of the day and night, -Work evaluated and praised...

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I have found plaster cloth to be very easy to work with, if a bit pricey. You can buy plaster cloth in varying widths from medical supply centers for a reasonable price. Dip in water, lay over the base forms, smooth, paint. Real easy-like. Looks like this:

wow! all these people who hurt thamslves with an Exacto knife... It says to me... CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT! Lets go get them Bastiches! Reparations for all!:D

Scooby, In all reality, unless you are comsissioned to build a layout, you will be unable to make a profit by building one and selling it. Take a look at the completed or partialy completed layouts on E-bay and you'll see what I mean. They are selling for about 20 cents on the dollar. On the...

I would also sugest picking up a can of Electrical contact cleaner. It is designed to displace water. We use it to clean breakers and other moving electrical parts. DO NOT SPRAY IT ON ANY PAINTED PLASTIC PIECES!

What Paul has aluded to is that you can isolate one section of the track from another. Similar to running two seperate tracks, you can run one track and electrically isolate one portion from the other. In this manner you can run more than one train independent of each other. you should never...

rather than a runaround on the left side, I think you should double track the main all the way around. Run you passenger trains on the outer track and frieght on the inner. I don't know why you can't have the trolly loop crossover the main, adds interest both visually and operationaly...

You really have captured the feel of modern Tokyo in a small space. The layout is amazing. Were the skyscrapers scratchbuilt or kits?

overlooking the obvious Fast-Love.

I'm in. You are all going to be eating my dust soon. Robbie Gordon, and Jeff Andretti are going to kick butt!

The scroll saw is for cutting any sheet material in odd shapes. If you want any straight lines, use your table saw, but if you need curves or irregular shapes, the scroll saw is your tool.

I have a boot-leg copy of MSTS that I have installed on an XP system. I also got a short-cut that allows me to run the sim without the disk installed. Before you tell me how lucky I am, let me tell you what the problem is. While running the sim with or without the operating disk, my computer...

not exactly... While I decidedly do not make train noises while I run my trains, I will confess to making car noises in my head while I play Gran Turismo 2, late at night with the sound off.

Fortunately he only took himself out but it could have been much worse. According to most news stories the driver of the truck went around the closed gates and past the flashing lights while ignoring the ringing bells to derail a commuter train using only his stake-bed truck and no brains...

I used telephone wire to do all of my wiring. Comes in a wonderful variety of colors and I have found that even at full voltage pulling at full capacity, my least efficient locomotive pulls less than 1 amp. I model N scale but I don't think you need any thing larger than 16 AWG for ANY model...