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 Posted - April 20 2014 : 1:26:11 PM
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Tyco "Speedy Andrew's." The camera resolution is poor, but the girl in the chair is blowing a bubble of gum. Photographed on Tycomania Layout.
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Posted - April 20 2014 : 1:59:31 PM
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This is the same building for Ma's Place too 
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Posted - April 20 2014 : 2:56:51 PM
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| The young girl from Speedy Andrews place will want to visit her local church in Tycomania and ask forgiveness for making a mess with her excessive gum at Speedy's place. 
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Posted - April 20 2014 : 7:42:57 PM
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LOL
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Posted - April 20 2014 : 10:52:13 PM
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| That's a great photo of that church Richard.
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Posted - April 21 2014 : 1:09:22 PM
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Got a Bachmann "Marshal's Office and Restaurant" at the local train show a couple Saturday's back. I'd been eyeing them because of the vintage and the long covered porch. A bargain at $3 and several hours of tinkering. This is what I've come up with so far; still needs some trimming of the roofing paper and chimney's or stacks for the smoke from the stoves. I removed some muttons and mullions from the window sashes and covered the factory board roof with "rolled roofing" (masking tape). I think it also needs some sort of a foundation yet. Anyway . . . hey, you could be responding to your wife's request to look at a cute baby animal picture on facebook.
It was kinda fun paintin' the mud wall at the back of the "jail", though I'm not sure this place will be used as a jail; maybe a bank or post-office?
So this is what the current settlement looks like . . .
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Posted - April 21 2014 : 1:33:18 PM
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That is so unique and eye catching. I'd love to see your layout at a show.
I'd like to do another 1860's layout, but what holds me back is that the only 1860's locomotives are the AHM American types with tender drive motors. After a dozen hours of continuous running at train shows I found they worked worse and worse and worse until the tender was oscillating and lifting the tender trucks off and on the tracks.
I googled and found no results for an 1860's American type, or similar locomotive other than AHM, Tyco, or Bachmann- all using the same blue print. Never saw one in brass.
I recently found a 2-4-0 NIB AHM at Tin Plate Henry's that has a motor sticking out into the cab. I'll try that.
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Posted - April 21 2014 : 2:15:25 PM
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Bachmann in 2013 re-released that building & the other one
Now you need the AHM/Tyco/etc Western Union/Railroad Hotel building
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Posted - April 21 2014 : 4:30:40 PM
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Originally posted by Barry - April 21 2014 : 1:09:22 PM
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Barry, nice job on the weathered wood. I've been doing a lot of looking at weathered wood (shingles, old barns with the paint completely gone, etc.), lately, and its color seems to be a hard to capture mix of colors and textures. This building looks pretty convincing, though.
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - April 21 2014 : 7:35:30 PM
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| Thanks for the compliments guys. Yeah, Ben, I dig that railroad hotel model; seems like a bunch of other people do as well by the way they get bid on. Don, that weathering was kind of a serendipitous effect. I had the pieces soaking in brake fluid for several days and scrubbed and scraped and never was able to get it all off, so it's a mix of underlying colors with Jacobean Minwax on top and then dull coat. I was fortunate that the molded in wood grain survived all the abuse.
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 3:41:37 PM
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One of several homes I have by Life-Like. This one is still sealed...
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 4:31:14 PM
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quote:This one is still sealed...
Originally posted by walt - April 22 2014 : 3:41:37 PM
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I can't imagine it being otherwise, Walt
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Posted - April 25 2014 : 02:51:17 AM
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Soooo 1970's. Just loving it!
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Posted - April 25 2014 : 09:32:29 AM
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Tyco "Speedy Andrew's." The camera resolution is poor, but the girl in the chair is blowing a bubble of gum. Photographed on Tycomania Layout.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â April 20 2014Â :Â 1:26:11 PM
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Mack ! Really like your photos. here and everywhere else. They are bright full of color and detail. A pleasure to look at .
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