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 AOTW Febuary 22 - Febuary 28, 2015
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kovacste000
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Hello, all. My contribution to this week's AOTW is a toolbox I got for Christmas that I recently filled with train supplies.



-Steve

"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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cool
*steals the case of cars*
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kovacste000
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quote:
cool
*steals the case of cars*

Originally posted by microbusss - February 22 2015 :  11:09:27 AM

Ooooohhhh. I totally did that to torment you.Just joking.
-Steve

"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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quote:

Ooooohhhh. I totally did that to torment you.Just joking.
Originally posted by kovacste000 - February 22 2015 :  11:26:23 AM


so was I Sides I prolly got lots of them Plus older ones
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Give you an A for organization. I have my tonnage
loosely piled into cardboard boxes with paper
towels protecting the pain. I am awful.
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My AOTW is a bridge I picked up last weekend. Needs a little TLC but I like the construction.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Nice bridge Jerry! As I've learned, the quality of construction is the most important thing when it comes to used structures. I purchased several buildings back in December hoping to modify them for my layout. Some of them were so poorly assembled my attempts to bring them up to par with the rest of my buildings only made them worse. Certain types of glue are very unforgiving. Anyway, you seem to have a good starting point with that bridge!

kovacste000, nice toolbox! Something I should probably invest in.
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A set of Life's-Like Campbell's soup billboards from their Campbell's train set. Also included is the more common lighted Campbell's billboard from long ago!
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Chops124
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Barge. This is a scratch built barge by my friend Jose Enrique, on an HO
module at Amtrak National Train Day last May. It still needs plastic
water, but is otherwise nearly complete. The scene, and the barge,
was inspired from a Walther's catalog cover picture.
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kovacste000
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kovacste000, nice toolbox! Something I should probably invest in.

Originally posted by DaCheez - February 23 2015 :  12:39:35 PM

Thanks.Wait, you don't have a toolbox? I thought every major model railroad dude had one of those.
-Steve

"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Here's something neat Life-Like used to sell in the '80s...


It doesn't include the building kits, but I bought it so I could use some of it on my layout and some of it on the local hobby shop/museum's HO layout too!
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Wow! That tunnel!!!
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I remember that set & I want one hehe
It's possibly hard to find
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kovacste000
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I remember that set & I want one hehe
It's possibly hard to find

Originally posted by microbusss - February 24 2015 :  02:09:04 AM

I would imagine so.
-Steve

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DaCheez
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kovacste000, nice toolbox! Something I should probably invest in.

Originally posted by DaCheez - February 23 2015 :  12:39:35 PM

Thanks.Wait, you don't have a toolbox? I thought every major model railroad dude had one of those.

Originally posted by kovacste000 - February 23 2015 :  8:00:26 PM



Nope, all the small stuff goes in my drawers and the big tools sit on the work table. Ideally I'd want a wall to organize everything, but a tool box would be the next best thing.

Here's my AotW. The aforementioned drawers. I paid something like $5 for this at a thrift store...

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Retired Alex
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Got one of those too, but mine's blue.
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kovacste000
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quote:
quote:
quote:

kovacste000, nice toolbox! Something I should probably invest in.

Originally posted by DaCheez - February 23 2015 :  12:39:35 PM

Thanks.Wait, you don't have a toolbox? I thought every major model railroad dude had one of those.

Originally posted by kovacste000 - February 23 2015 :  8:00:26 PM



Nope, all the small stuff goes in my drawers and the big tools sit on the work table. Ideally I'd want a wall to organize everything, but a tool box would be the next best thing.

Here's my AotW. The aforementioned drawers. I paid something like $5 for this at a thrift store...



Originally posted by DaCheez - February 24 2015 :  3:00:08 PM

That's pretty cool, Cheez.That's the type of thing I want to build up to eventually.
-Steve

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Probably one of the best $5 I've ever spent.
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And some nice looking buildings buy that chest of drawers Eric.
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Those are the buildings that didn't make the cut for my layout. It's hard to tell from the pic but the two Belvedere hotels are pretty thrashed. I may be able to make one good building from the two. Still, there's potential.
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kovacste000
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Probably one of the best $5 I've ever spent.

Originally posted by DaCheez - February 25 2015 :  11:34:07 PM

You seriously got that for $5? That's awesome.
-Steve

"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
Edited by - kovacste000 on February 26 2015 7:20:26 PM
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quote:
You seriously got that for $5? That's awesome.

Originally posted by kovacste000 - February 26 2015 :  7:20:06 PM


you'd be amazed as whats at garage/yard sales & 2nd hand stores hehe
usually when I sees these a drawer or more is missings!
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kovacste000
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quote:
You seriously got that for $5? That's awesome.

Originally posted by kovacste000 - February 26 2015 :  7:20:06 PM


you'd be amazed as whats at garage/yard sales & 2nd hand stores hehe
usually when I sees these a drawer or more is missings!

Originally posted by microbusss - February 26 2015 :  7:44:56 PM

I guess so.
-Steve

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I have one huge one with something like 50 drawers, plus a little 7-drawer one. I got that for $8... FULL OF HO FIGURES!
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Barge. This is a scratch built barge by my friend Jose Enrique, on an HO
module at Amtrak National Train Day last May. It still needs plastic
water, but is otherwise nearly complete. The scene, and the barge,
was inspired from a Walther's catalog cover picture.

Originally posted by Chops124 - February 23 2015 :  6:15:37 PM



how the heck does the barge go anywhere?
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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quote:

how the heck does the barge go anywhere?

Originally posted by rgcw5 - February 28 2015 :  1:54:38 PM


its called Pretend
as in Use yer imagination hehe
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