Bought these from Reindeer Pass. They always have fair prices and good service.
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Cheap Ambient Sound
I bought several of these
to use to make the layout more interesting. I found these tiny MP3 players and speakers on eBay. About $6 for the set. I had micro SD cards on hand, but if you had to buy those you’d need to add that to the cost.
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Laser cut houses
One really nice thing about laser cutting styrene structures is that once the file is created, you can cut as many as you want with (almost) no additional effort. This one has a different roof (made from a CMS shingle pattern section) and I tried out some laser cut windows and doors. But the walls are cut from the same file as the other one.
So I built this house for around $10 in materials: half of a $4 sheet of 6mm sintra, $3 worth of Plastruct strips, $4 for the roof panel, and some paint. And (IMO) it looks as good as a more expensive kit-built structure–for sure from 10 feet away.
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Sidewalk cafe outside
Here are the cafe tables on the street. I think I need to turn the bases 90° so the people aren’t sitting with their backs to the street. But I’m happy with how these came out.
Live Steamer arrives
Just bought this :-)
Hopefully it will come by the weekend
LGB 2015D and tender
Here’s my LGB 2015D and powered tender pulling some boxcars and gondolas around my layout.
European House
Here’s another of my “winter” projects. This is a European house for the residential section of my town.
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Sidewalk cafe scene
Whilst it’s too cold out to run trains (23 was this morning’s lovely number, with 18 mph winds) I’ve been working on some indoor projects.
Now that the town is mostly laid out, I want to add some interest to the main street. My idea was to add a set of tables with umbrellas in front of one of the “cafes” on the street with some figures dining there. But because of the high winds here, I didn’t want to use plastic umbrellas. So here’s what I came up with:
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