Have been working on the engine service facility. I installed a 1/8" brass tube on the backside of the buiding to run the led wiring through. It is a 'free standing' pipe that runs from the layout surface to the top of the back wall. The leds are now permanently attached to the underside of the roof...lighting the inside. I can now flip the roof off the building and remove the building itself...in case I need to get in there to get locomotives out and clean and maintain the shop. . I am still looking for workshop interior details. I found some on Shapeways...but not sure I can paint them. I may have to sweet talk THE WIFE into painting them. https://www.shapeways.com/product/2XP72CVSZ/n-scale-workshop-interior-details Does anyone have any other source for workshop interior details ?? I have wore my fingers out googling for them...
The pipe running up the wall of the shop looks like it was always there. Cool deal. The hitching post looks great too. Great idea to use a staple for that. I probably would ave way over thought that and ended up with something that took ten times the work and only looked half as good
TWISTER ! Envision the classic movie "Twister" starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton while you read this.... I posted my 'switchers' in the latest switchers thread and remarked how dusty they looked. Soooooo...I figured I would go out and 'dust' off the layout etc.. Not a problem...right ? I dug out my small air compressor and plugged it in. I turned the regulator as far down as I could. Ok...Take a breath...hold it...purse your lips...and slowly blow out against the back of your hand. Yup...thats about all the air flow that was coming out of the airgun at the end of the hose. I slowly started blowing 'debris' off the layout. Things were going well. The first casualty of this little wind gust was a headstone in the cemetery. It took off up the embankment behind the cemetery and landed up by the celltower. 'THE Homestead' took the wind pretty good. Just one car in a driveway was blown into the front yard. "Georgetown' had a few buildings move but not to bad. The little diner outside the main gate to "Lucky Penny Yard" was blown against the chainlink fence outside of the guard station. The guard station and the walls around it flew into the dispatch office parking lot. The platform for the team track ended up halfway down the road leading to the engine service building ! A few freight cars in "Lucky Penny Yard" were blown over. Lucky for me they didnt all go flying. The engine service buliding stood its ground...even though it is NOT glued down. The locomotives at the turntable held their ground. Going back to the other side of the layout. The cars on main street in "Jeans Valley" were spun...lifted...and blown in all directions. A few took flight but not far. Unfortunately the n scale people enjoyin a day in "THE Railroad Park" didnt stand a chance . Although most were glued down...their little feet couldnt hold them in place and they went flying everywhere ! 'Robbies Hot Dog Stand" at the other end of the park was blown over into the municipal building next door. One passenger car at the station was blown over against the passenger platform. The round outdoor tables at "Jeans Bistro" took off like frisbees ! Still havent found one of them...hmmmm. Outside of town....The 'Chapel In The Pines" barely moved. The one car that was in the parking lot did a 360 and landed against a pine tree. A car stopped at the railroad crossing had its body ripped right off the frame! The buildings at "J&J Horse Ranch" faired pretty good. All except the chicken coop in the back yard. It was tossed into the air and landed in the middle of the road in downtown "Jeans Valley" No news yet on the little chickens. The cover over the water trough in the horse pasture was blown over. Only one horse at the ranch didnt make it. It was blown up into the air. (Remember the cow in the movie 'Twister' )...yea a lot like that. It landed across the street and landed in the middle of "George's Scrap Yard"!!! Little N scale stuff not glued down...or not glued down well enough...doesnt take to well to even little puffs of wind (air). The good news.... I found 4 lost items that at one time were on the workbench that disappeared onto the floor a long time ago that now blew out into the aisle when using the air on the floor to clean up.. All is now well again in THERR RV. The cleanup is amost done.
Sooooooooooooo...I go to order something on shapeways. Something that could be shipped in a standard sized envelope ! $11.00...not to bad. I go to check out and the shippimg is a whooping $9.00 !!!! Maybe this should have been posted in the "More Ebay Humor" thread....
Yup...i didnt finish the ordering process once I saw that. I mean serious...what are people thinking...
Unfortunately that dollar amount seems to be a standard of theirs. I cannot recall ever buying from their site, and having it cost less- if at all. Sadly, their are many things they offer, which just cannot be located elsewhere.
I can see a larger shipping cost if an item has to be bubble wrapped and 'boxed'. Something that cost $10.00 and can be slipped into a standard envelope shouldnt have to cost $9.00 to ship. Lucky for me it's not a 'must have' item. Maybe I will just put it on a 'Christmas list' and see if my kids arent gun shy paying hostage fees to get it here ! Until then...I will just search elsewhere for the item.
My wife has an 'Amazon Prime' account....think I will search over there and see if I can find some kind of substitute.
I have created a monster !! THE Wife and I were having a cup of coffee this morning. I showed her the Workshop Accessories I WAS going to buy. The more she looked at the picture...I could see the wheels and gears spinning in her cute little head. Finally she says..." You're pretty good and making your own stuff out of all those little pieces and parts in all those little trays you have all over the place in THERR RV. " " Can't you just make your own Workshop Accessories ??" <BIG SIGH> I already have a cast metal Small Silver Home Size Propane Tank that I had bought a bunch of years ago... that I can convert to an Industrial Air compressor ! I also have one of those little black light blocking clips that snap on the front of a locomotive frame that has a broken off ear. I believe I can file the ends down and flip it on its edge...that would make a decent 'workbench'. Cabinets and shelving...I am sure I have something that will suffice ! Other homemade workshop tools and accessories....The hunt is on ! I got this...lol !!!!
30 F here in Idaho Country with the threat of a dusting of snow. Some threat!! I said sarcastically. Give me a real snow storm. Your s-crap yard needs some junk in it. I need my junk for my own scrap yard. You can buy junk boxes at train shows. Look for shows put on by local groups. That's when the s-crap shows up. It's fun watching the progress on your layout. Sounds like you have the same problems with cold in your Railroad RV as I did with my Train Shed. Hard to warm up and not exactly cheap these days. Hang in there.
Ahhhhhhhhh...a 'scrap yard' versus a 'junk yard'. There is a subtle difference. A 'scrap yard' is a place of business that is set-up to take in any old , used , or simply unwanted scrap metal items with the intentions of recycling it. A 'junk yard' is a place where old metal, paper, etc. is kept, sorted, and sold, or where old cars are junked. A junk yard or lot that is used to store junk, such as resalable car parts. You cant just walk into a scrap yard and by scrap metal. BUT...you can walk into a junk yard and buy parts off a junked car. Thats my story and I am sticking to it ! .
Your so full of s-crap. Besides judging from the sign it could be either. Or worse!! Heeheehee Don't you just know I've been waiting along time to say that. Timing and opportunity are everything. Got to love your S-Crap yard.
