Last night I got the brackets attached to the control panel to hold it down to the table top. That ended the night. I found out the 48" hinge I bought will not work. It was not wide enough to catch the Luan board. So another trip back to the depot to get other hinges. I would of rather the long hinge worked. Sometimes working with more then one hinge if you don't get them lined up properly you have trouble with the panel opening............Paul
paul 2 posted:Last night I got the brackets attached to the control panel to hold it down to the table top. That ended the night. I found out the 48" hinge I bought will not work. It was not wide enough to catch the Luan board. So another trip back to the depot to get other hinges. I would of rather the long hinge worked. Sometimes working with more then one hinge if you don't get them lined up properly you have trouble with the panel opening............Paul
is it 1 1/2" wide? that would give you 3\4" to attach on each side. if you use hinged area use it to align all hinges to main layout that way hinge acts as a spacer you can drill pilot hole in each one reverse hinge and use only that 1 screw to attach to layout.
then clamp the control panel top or? and drill pilot hole and attach all hinges to it test and if it pivots freely attach the other screws.
StPaul, The piece of Luan board measures 48" by 16 7/8. That 48" hinge would of worked but there was not enough width on the side of the hinge. I was going to use brass screws with nuts to hold the Luan to the hinge but the lid would not be able to close because the nuts would be sitting right on the 1 by 4 frame and I did not want to get into cutting out spots for them. But I found what I needed and now or after dinner I can work on it........Thanks Paul
Not today, but over several months, with a bit of final tweaking this past week, I have been working on this area, making large and minuscule changes and refinements...
Essentially, the neighborhood, located at the final dead-end corner of the layout, has been changed from a place featuring several small businesses, including the horse-trader in the foreground, to what in my mind is a more rural neighborhood of homesteads:
Here is how it was....
Here is how it is now, in its final interpretation. I think. Sort of. Maybe.
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FrankM, Moon Township, USA.
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Moonson posted:Not today, but over several months, with a bit of final tweaking this past week, I have been working on this area, making large and minuscule changes and refinements...
Essentially, the neighborhood, located at the final dead-end corner of the layout, has been changed from a place featuring several small businesses, including the horse-trader in the foreground, to what in my mind is a more rural neighborhood of homesteads:
Here is how it was....
Here is how it is now, in its final interpretation. I think. Sort of. Maybe.
..
FrankM, Moon Township, USA.
Nice pines in pic 4/55. Homemade?
joe
dobermann posted:Moonson posted:Not today, but over several months, with a bit of final tweaking this past week, I have been working on this area, making large and minuscule changes and refinements...
Essentially, the neighborhood, located at the final dead-end corner of the layout, has been changed from a place featuring several small businesses, including the horse-trader in the foreground, to what in my mind is a more rural neighborhood of homesteads:
Here is how it was....
Here is how it is now, in its final interpretation. I think. Sort of. Maybe.
..
FrankM, Moon Township, USA.
Nice pines in pic 4/55. Homemade?
joe
All foliage is from Jim Elster's Scenic Express.
Fantastic remake of the area. I think it is better then the first. Less congested and more detail to see. Great job....Paul
paul 2 posted:Fantastic remake of the area. I think it is better then the first. Less congested and more detail to see. Great job....Paul
Thanks a lot, Paul. I appreciate your perspective and conversation . I am happier with it as it has been changed, too, but it is especially pleasant and helpful to hear the view of others on something I have reinterpreted on the layout.
frankM
Today I finished gluing up one of two roadway support structures and determined the material I'll use to pave the roadway. Still very much struggling to decide on how to fabricate the guard rails as shown in photo 3. ANY suggestions will be most appreciated. One option I'm considering is to use thin metal with a Lincane pattern and set it in Plastruct U channel between uprights. While I believe it will look nice I'm thinking it may be a little too much Art Deco, but I haven't yet found anything better.
bd
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Moonson posted:paul 2 posted:Fantastic remake of the area. I think it is better then the first. Less congested and more detail to see. Great job....Paul
Thanks a lot, Paul. I appreciate your perspective and conversation . I am happier with it as it has been changed, too, but it is especially pleasant and helpful to hear the view of others on something I have reinterpreted on the layout.
frankM
Frank,
I like the new more rural looking area as well. Those trees do contribute greatly to the overall effect.
Have you thought about using window screen?
Mark Boyce posted:Moonson posted:paul 2 posted:Fantastic remake of the area. I think it is better then the first. Less congested and more detail to see. Great job....Paul
Thanks a lot, Paul. I appreciate your perspective and conversation . I am happier with it as it has been changed, too, but it is especially pleasant and helpful to hear the view of others on something I have reinterpreted on the layout.
frankM
Frank,
I like the new more rural looking area as well. Those trees do contribute greatly to the overall effect.
I'm glad you feel that way, Mark, because foliage, especially trees, is something I have never skimped on. Trees are as important to me in layout scenes where they belong as they are in real-life verdant environments where they add immeasurably to the quality of life. Once I decided I could afford this hobby, I decided never to do anything on the cheap , frankly.
When I craft a scene, I have arrayed around my work-table a number of storage containers brim-full with the various ground covers and high and low foliage , with deciduous trees and conifers available within arm's reach, of various colors , textures, sizes, and shades, ready for spontaneous creative emplacement. Then, I really "pour it on," applying the various glues that are needed to keep each of the particulars in place. It takes days for all those various glues to set-up in their respective layers. I have great fun. And Scenic Express is my most valued resource for the whole creative adventure.
FrankM
mike g. posted:Have you thought about using window screen?
For?
(I ask that if you are addressing me.) FrankM
Hi Frank, I am sorry, that was for Barnun, and his idea for a guard rail.
But on a side note, I do love your improvements on your layout! Shows time and care at what you are doing!
Mike G., assuming the window screen one was for me ... yes sir ... several varieties including the heavier Pet Screen. I've also looked at wire mesh, Raschel Military fabric and chair caning materials. Can't seem to find the right pattern, right scale for the railings ... yet anyway. But I appreciate the thought! I also looked at it for the roadway but I'm going with 220 grit sanding screen (12" x 18" sheet) which is much stiffer than the window screen (fiberglass & metal) with a better thickness and tighter weave.
Thanks again,
bd
mike g. posted:Hi Frank,..., I do love your improvements on your layout! Shows time and care at what you are doing!
Thanks, Mike G, I appreciate the approval.
FrankM
Not what I did as much as what my WIFE did. I came home from work and she'd taken a couple of days off, today she made a full set of curtains for the lower edge of the layout! She even put the hardware in place to hang them. I had no idea she was going to do this.
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All foliage is from Jim Elster's Scenic Express.
Frank..I'm especially interested in pic 4 and the 2 large drooping bough firs on the sides of the company house. I'm a frequent flyer at Scenic Express but I can't locate that particular tree in the catalog. This is probably a stretch but do you by any chance still have the bag they came in? they would be perfect in this scene.
Thanks
joe
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dobermann posted:All foliage is from Jim Elster's Scenic Express.
Frank..I'm especially interested in pic 4 and the 2 large drooping bough firs on the sides of the company house. I'm a frequent flyer at Scenic Express but I can't locate that particular tree in the catalog. This is probably a stretch but do you by any chance still have the bag they came in? they would be perfect...
No bag remaining (I think they were boxed), but here's a closer-up view of them and some catalogue references I just now went searching for. The catalogue I use(d) when I prepared for the scene is #16. Those trees, listed on the page (52) entitled "Premier Scale Trees" are numbers: CA0538 Appalacian Green Spruce ($9.99); CA0539 Eastern Blue Spruce ($9.99); and Ponderosa Pines (which I sometimes use cut shorter), #'s: CA0544; 0545; 0546.
FrankM
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Lee, Just like any great wife, they always make things look better! 
Got all my stuff ready to go last night but decided at the last minute to head out to Stockyard Express's open house today, Saturday, in Oberlin Ohio. And to top it off the wife said she will go with me and I could pick out a Christmas present. Hmmmmm not quite sure how to take that. Maybe she is using some kind of mind game on me. It's working I even told her we could do lunch in that area. Later today I'll start working again.............Paul
Moonson posted:dobermann posted:All foliage is from Jim Elster's Scenic Express.
Frank..I'm especially interested in pic 4 and the 2 large drooping bough firs on the sides of the company house. I'm a frequent flyer at Scenic Express but I can't locate that particular tree in the catalog. This is probably a stretch but do you by any chance still have the bag they came in? they would be perfect...
No bag remaining (I think they were boxed), but here's a closer-up view of them and some catalogue references I just now went searching for. The catalogue I use(d) when I prepared for the scene is #16. Those trees, listed on the page (52) entitled "Premier Scale Trees" are numbers: CA0538 Appalacian Green Spruce ($9.99); CA0539 Eastern Blue Spruce ($9.99); and Ponderosa Pines (which I sometimes use cut shorter), #'s: CA0544; 0545; 0546.
FrankM
Thank you Frank
mike g. posted:Lee, Just like any great wife, they always make things look better!
Thanks, Mike.
She makes the room better every time she walks into it. I married well, and every day I wonder why she said, "yes" when I proposed...
I worked on my subway. I want to complete it soon so can start working on my upper level trackwork.
Hi All,
I'm new on this forum, I'm starting over, so first things first. I'm painting my new train room from wife pink to man green, lol then be installing an old PRR ceiling lamp.
NEC Runner posted:Hi All,
I'm new on this forum, I'm starting over, so first things first. I'm painting my new train room from wife pink to man green, lol then be installing an old PRR ceiling lamp.
Blank canvas. That's a great place to be. Welcome to the forum!
Going to Stockyard Express Saturday took up a good portion on my day. All enjoyable. Met a number of friends from the Tuesday night group there. I didn't think I was going to find something I wanted but, boy was I wrong. Just about ready to leave I started going through some Woodland Scenic buildings and there it was. The Morrison Door Factory. It was the only one and the more I looked at it and saw all the detail the more I wanted it. So I ended up buying it. I already have a spot for it on my up and coming basement layout. A pic of my buy. Later today I will put some time in on the attic layout seeing I ran into Bryan too and he said while we were standing with some of the Tuesday night group there I should host a night soon. Thanks a lot Bryan LOL...............Paul
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NEC Runner posted:Hi All,
I'm new on this forum, I'm starting over, so first things first. I'm painting my new train room from wife pink to man green, lol then be installing an old PRR ceiling lamp.
Welcome! Do you have your layout designed? If you decide to start your own layout progress thread (highly recommended!) please post the link here. I enjoy learning from others while I work on mine.
dobermann posted:A month after starting my granddaughters 4x8 it's finally connected it to the TIU. Maybe now she'll stop driving cars and moving people around on mine.
But, IMHO, I'll bet it will be playing with the ones on your layout that she will remember the best.
FankM
No work on the layout this weekend, but that doesn't mean it was without trains. What fun would that be? We went to Milwaukee to see boxing Saturday night.
Friday evening we went over to the Lionel Railroad Club and met up with forum member Jim R where we talked trains of course, as well as boxing. Very fun evening, it was nice meeting him IRL.
Saturday morning we stopped at Sommerfelds where I picked up a couple cars that fit with my railroad's motif. But I really had my eye on a much bigger fish. Unfortunately, I was the second person interested in it, but just like eBay, I did out bid him. We'll see how this one shakes out later this week. Fingers crossed.
As for the boxing, it was a great card. We always have great seats, because my buddy knows the promoter.
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Sadly, I only ran trains again today and didn't work on the layout. Did decide to make and post a video of my railking NKP 765. https://youtu.be/Avhk_mDMxic
NEC Runner posted:Hi All,
I'm new on this forum, I'm starting over, so first things first. I'm painting my new train room from wife pink to man green, lol then be installing an old PRR ceiling lamp.
Welcome!
I identify! Our last daughter will be getting married in 3 weeks, and I'll be painting over her My Little Ponies Pink to sky blue and building my layout in my own room for the first time in 25 years.
NSRailfan100 posted:Sadly, I only ran trains again today and didn't work on the layout. Did decide to make and post a video of my railking NKP 765. https://youtu.be/Avhk_mDMxic
Well that was a very productive day! I like your 765! All I did was run trains a bit myself but no neat video like you did!
John D. posted:NEC Runner posted:Hi All,
I'm new on this forum, I'm starting over, so first things first. I'm painting my new train room from wife pink to man green, lol then be installing an old PRR ceiling lamp.
Welcome! Do you have your layout designed? If you decide to start your own layout progress thread (highly recommended!) please post the link here. I enjoy learning from others while I work on mine.
Nothing really planned this time, just a freelance style, could end up with all prewar stuff, and use a Legacy with a powerhouse to run it all, lol 
Save the green for the PW benchwork; light blue walls are cheap backdrop
No work yet on the layout but the postman brought my latest purchase. I ordered this from Beth at Public Delivery Track last week. I have to do some yard work before retiring to the attic to do some layout work but couldn't wait till then to open the package. Always makes me feel like a little kid again getting a train for Christmas. I really have very little Bessemer so I thought this would make a good addition and it is a Weaver. A pic..........Paul
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Spent all day Sunday and tonight getting my basement put back together in anticipation of Friday night's open house. Got a lot of accessories onto the layout so people can start to see my vision. Finally hit up Costco to buy food and drinks for Friday. still have to test run some areas but really getting excited about having people over for the first time since the "PROJECT " began last November. No pictures until Saturday as I want to see the reactions to people seeing it for the first time live.
I whittled a spout for my water tower.
Then this giraffe showed up to get some water.
Well someone needs to post a giraffe since someonelse is preoccupied 
