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    How much ballast is to much!

    Must of been a friday, when this track was ballasted?sign1
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    respirator for airbrushing

    A good mask to use is the 3M brand, Automotive dual cartridge respirators. It's what autobody technicians use when they paint and what I use to when I do autobody repair. Automotive paint products are some of the harshest chemicals out there. They come in three sizes. Just go to any automotive...
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    First attempt at weathering

    My boy wasn't to happy that I weathered his car. He wanted to get even with me, when I asked him if he wanted to paint another one of his cars. He said no!! :mad:He wanted to paint my white soo line covered hopper. It took some convincing to paint his Sante Fe caboose. But I got him to give. So...
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    First attempt at weathering

    Good eye. This piece was not dullcoated at the time of photo shoot, but is now. This car is rolling stock from my two year olds collection. Figured I'd practice on his before mine. I hope he doesn't care that I did this.sign1
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    First attempt at weathering

    This is my first attempt at weathering after seeing the tutorial from deano. It is a quick and easy way of weathering.hamr I'm going to have my two year old son do the next one with me. He's such a train nut already.train97 Trucklover, I see you started a thread using the same technique, you got...
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    rustus en extremis

    Looks good to me!!!
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    Turnout Question

    I am building a new HO layout based off of a Atlas layout. The layout says to use #4 custom line turnouts. At the Atlas web site it says that a snap switch and #4 custom line turnouts are not interchangeable in Atlas layout plans. Why is this? Are they different lengths or have different turnout...