Those self-store lots are rather a fixture of modern life. The choices of kits and layouts look just right.
It is real glass and I love working on it as it will take anything and be cleaned up after. Mike PS it is flat for building on as well. Mike
Hello all, some more work on this module today...added some figures to the "Dari King", painted the road and the 'earth' base, striped the road, then created the 'tar-filled' cracks... Next are the gravel shoulders and parking lot. ~Bruce
Bruce.... What do you use to make your roads with and what do you use for stripping ? I have tried numerous things and cant get anything to work thus far...grrrrrrrrrr !!!!!!
I've been using chipboard for my roads for these modules and now I'm sold on it. I bought a large sheet at Hobby Lobby and had it cut into 2" strips. I made shoulders from lightweight spackle, which sands well. Even though the chipboard is cardboard, lightly sanding it doesn't destroy it, in fact, after painting, it has a nice smooth texture. Stirping was done with Woodlands Scenics striping pens... Bruce
Hello all... a big show (for us and our Gulf Coast bit-o-heaven) coming up for us in March... The T-Trak, AND, by design, N Scale(!), is getting a LOT of interest in our Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida panhandle area...this is precisely what I was hoping would occur. Even 'O' scalers are expressing some serious interest in N scale, and a few have even built a T-Trak module and purchased some n scale equipment. I've got to step it up just a bit (I've got 7' more of modules to do after this one)...I've added some family and teenager 'action' at the the drive up "Dari King" ( a little MP3 sound system plays a continuous loop of 20 of the top 100 Billboard hits of 1957). I have plenty of details yet to add to this one; a couple of nice trees will straddle the side road toward the skyboard, the power poles, the telephone poles, and, of course, the ground cover over the areas that require it. ~Bruce
This model of the ATSF boilerhouse that was at Slaton, Texas had a long weekend on the workbench. Finished the porch and steps, added and painted the handrail, AND THEN!! I dropped a tool on the handrail!!! It popped out the support at the top of the steps. Glued it back but haven't done the touchup painting and need to add the weathering and EZ Line to the smokestacks. Robert
Well i have been working on this all night. It is a fun kit. But has anyone noticed. I dont know if the kit is backwards or just the instructions. But the mounting tabs for the loading chutes on on the wrong side according to the instructions. So my cutes are facing to the rear not the front but i dont think its a problem. Well just got done clearing a foot of snow. Now its bed time, have to work tonight. But work is fun cause i see trains . I haul containers out oh Harrisburg intermodal, Joe
Nearly finished with my SP&S GP9 project. Waiting for numberboard decals and need to paint the white parts of the handrails. John
