I recently added my technique for decals at the scale auto website, also a Kalmbach magazine, under dioramas I think, I’d have to look. Any one interested in vehicles as well as trains ought to go join up at Scale Autos. Most of the people model 1/24 and bigger type cars, trucks. but there is a blurb for 1/87(it’s called smaller scales) over there. Some of those guys are awesome modelers. But quickly, I have tried BEV-BEL paper and think it’s too thick , Walters decal paper isn’t too bad, But I just ordered paper from micro mark to try. I’m looking for the thinnest I can find. I use Digital photos
when I can get them, I use an EPSON photo printer. Be sure you get paper for ink jet printers if thats what you will use. Get clear and white paper. I manipulate my photos with Paintshop Pro, and print from there. It really takes time sometimes to get that 1 perfect decal. Sorry about beint long winded.[:-^][zzz]
Great pics everyone. twhite-you seem to have pretty cool scenery weathering should ad another cool feature to your layout!!
Tom Great pics Hope you feel better That hurts heres The new loco i got a week ago
Going threw Sleepy Valley
Those are some great pictures y’all.
Nice Carl. What’s the IC engine in the pic? looks like a SD40-2 but I can’t quite tell.
Wow! Very nice work guys.
I don’t have much to show today. I did repair my benchwork though, and things are running smoothly now. I took a couple snapshots of a train crossing thru the turnout where I was having so much trouble. I Added a knee brace of sorts using some Simpson brackets I found at the Home Depot, to support the leaf or wing of the table.
It’s not much but it is something[:)]
Anymore there seems to be alot of hatered towards the BNSF. Ever since the NEW BNSF logo came out…there has been nothing but insaults one right after another.
Worked on the layout today. Started double-track and I had to move a curve and I can’t get the track to line up so the layout isn’t operational.
Spent Friday and the entire weekend at the Great Train Expo. We had some major gremlins setting up the modular units. Units that have been connected together for years suddenly refused to go to gather properly. Then there was a strange electrical problem. sigh. We were still setting up 30 minutes after the show opened. Then there were so many people I didn’t get to sit down once all day.
The following photos are monserous and I didn’t feel like taking the time to chop them down to “form size” so don’t click the links unless you have Qwest DSL broadband!
The two modules that have finished scenery. We inherited these from my children’s Youth in Model Railroading days.
http://www.walkersquawker.net/images/YIMR%20modules.JPG
GN 280 approaches “the canyon”:
http://www.walkersquawker.net/images/GN280%20at%20canyon.JPG
A PV&W coal drag passes a small station with an oil facility.
http://www.walkersquawker.net/images/080%20on%20coal%20drag.JPG
A close up of a wooden box car painted in the “old buffalo” scheme bringing up the rear.
http://www.walkersquawker.net/images/buffalo%20box%20car.JPG
Even taking it down was riddled with gremilins. A bolt holding one of the backdrops got cross threaded and wouldn’t come out. We then proceeded to strip the wood gripping teeth off the “T” nut so we had to manually hold it too. Ruined the head of the screw both the inside Phillips part and the outside edges with a plier. Finally realized I had a dremel and exactly one cut off disk. Of course the disk broke off before the job was done, so we were literally screwed. An hour later we finally got the screw off and the backdrop off. As you can see everyone else is almost packed up and leaving, we haven’t even gotten the legs off yet. We were the last exhibit to leave the facility.
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