Michael: Consider this in your pricing: 1 for $xx 3 for 2.5 x $xx It should be easy to paint mutiple units different colors and it looks as if you could swap some surfaces so you could get similar house as you might find in a housing development. ...don
Good idea Don, It would also be easy to do some so that the front is reversed so that you get that driveway between two mirror image houses syndrome. Cheers,
Yep, nice and "homey" to me. Typical track houses had that mirror image design or, you could make a duplex (there is a one-of-a-kind). Option 2 is a 3 bedroom or deeper back and front (common garage and middle). Did you paint both sides of the bass wood ? If you shellac it first, it shouldn't warp. Or use plastic or foam board for you diorama bases. .
Michael, This model is a good choice. Everyone can use a few of them. Another good idea would be the kit houses sold by Sears and other companies in the first half of the 20th century. There were a lot of them built all over the country. The following two sites have links to catalogs or photos showing pictures, floor plans, etc. Images of Sears Homes Clarke Historical Library Dan S.
Kinda Pacifics and Mikados I noticed on one of the other threads Joe D'amato's comments about Marklins 'kinda' pacifics and mikados.I am desperately trying to get my 'kinda' Nickel Plate Road L1b Hudson complete in time for the Merseyside Model Railway show at the end of the month where our Cuyahoga layout makes it's debut at a full public exhibition. As you can see it has the distinctive 'elephant ears' smoke deflectors and the high sided tender with high speed trucks. Obviously I have got more detail to put on the tender and a lot of tidying up to do but it is starting to look the part. The other big panic was getting enough NKP cabooses done to have on the rear of freight trains. sorry about the focus on this one. I'll take a better one when it is painted!
My first tree Slowly getting back to Z here is my first try at a tree.... The one at the back is what that got me started, it looked so bad I needed to make a better one. now to improve on it.... Kim
Nice to have you back at it Kim. I am going to try some brass etching tonight. I just have to find my wife's iron. Chris and I experimented with single sided brass etching, and it worked great using that blue irong on paper. I had always believed a photo process with developing then etch was the only way to go, but the press and peel blue saves the expose and develop steps. My Brother printer don't work well, but my Oki printer works great! We were able to etch attachment points that were .007" wide, and measured .005" after etch. Today I am going to try double sided etch, so I have to get the overlay perfect.
Yes the etching is fairly simple and quick once you have a basic setup. Once I made drawing, transferred to copper, etched and had the part in my hand all in two hours. The double side alignment is tricky. Remember to flip one image before printing. I align it with back light and then slide the copper sheet in between. once you get a hang of double side and see the details you can get, you wont go back to single side etching... Iron is good but laminator is more uniform. so what are you making? Kim
Looking Good Harry. Just pulled out 3 undec. GP35s last night that have been sitting around for a while. I wonder what I can come up with...
Hi Rob, never heared about this blue press & peewl stuff, can you tell me more or have a link with infos? I'm always fighting with the photo process....
Harry, after looking at your pictures, I started weathering my cars again. I guess I needed a kick in the rear to get going. Here is my box.
