Good Morning Everyone.....over slept this morning since the fancy atomic clock didn't change time like its normally does and every-time I looked at it, it was still an hour behind. I have timers on several of the exterior ligth fixtures and one changes automatically which is great and the others I'll be changing manually.
Beady & Tom: I stopped using Elmer's White glue on scenery other for the first base coast and then follow up with Woodland's Scenic cement that dries clear. In fact it is a fixative for the acrylics used to color plaster rock molds. The scenic cement is more expensive than Elmer's, but I like the results using this product. On slopes or inclines I use contact cement to hold the ground foam and that it with no scenic cement used.
Beady: I'll try your suggestion for using cellophane tape which also gave me the idea to try using Testor's masking tape and cut to fit the tape after installing it. I'm used to weathering rolling stock and a few locomotives with mainly powders, so this is a new learning curve for me. Thanks.
BTW...
Beady I'm going to show my wife your
collection of Kato products and maybe then she will think I'm normal with all model railroad equipment.
Nice way to store it on a bookcase.
It always great to go Walther's showroom and watch the demo trains run on a completed, well modeled layout featuring Walther's products. The layout's maybe 30 feet in length and 6 feet wide with several areas up to 10 feet wide. Yesterday, they had two trains running on the double main line and each had a double consist pulling the cars. There was maybe 20 cars per train. I never seen a derailment in all my visits to the store. Chris, the manager, recommended to me a paint remover from Scale Coat just for acrylics which removes decals and paint but leaves the lacquer paint intact. A bit expensive at over $18 a bottle, but they had some damaged bottles for under $10. I guess one bottle will do five to seven average locomotives. Just brush on the product, wait 10 minutes and use a tootbrush to work the product into the details and then wash with a detergent and water.
That's all for now....
Greg
A seldom used Shay at the Omro siding is a Bachmann with SoundTrax. The box cars and caboose are weathered BB kits. The con is unknown and the Wisconsin Central cars are a set of four and from Fox valley and are former SOO Line equipment. The stacks of logs came from a florist's center piece and are dried Red Dogwood cut to fit.
