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Gonna use Tyco's School this week. Adding the window blind detail in this photo. I have yet to try a light inside this building. Will maybe remember to do that later today... Much more detail to add.
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Posted - April 11 2016 : 01:31:08 AM
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I see you didn't add the Halloween deco to this kit 
What you could do is paste the deco onto paper or stiff paper to mount in the windows with tape on the back for easy removal 
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Posted - April 11 2016 : 01:43:05 AM
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Hey, Ben.. My layout is following the spring time theme, leaving the Halloween décor out of place...
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Posted - April 11 2016 : 6:52:33 PM
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| It's missing dumpsters.
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Posted - April 11 2016 : 9:02:56 PM
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For the Buss can you put a trash can along side the building with a small train on the can lid. Maybe a sign saying Buss's photographic studio next to it.
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Posted - April 14 2016 : 7:22:17 PM
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I want a trestle in my layout traversing a gorge or small deep valley. Since I live in Redwood country, I want an old fashioned timber trestle. I looked at different photos and drawings, different layouts, the plastic models and precut wood models. Since I have a nice supply of model balsa wood, I figured I could make one myself, not a big one, maybe over all it will be 24 inches from one side to the other and 16 inches high, twice the height of the one I completed today, after doing a drawing for my template, though I accidentally flipped the angled supports and will have to do that from now on for uniformity. 
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Posted - April 14 2016 : 9:30:27 PM
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| Looks good Martin. That's a pretty impressive size when you're talkin' 16 inches high.
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Posted - April 14 2016 : 11:21:22 PM
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Nice work. I want to see the final product and some
trains running over it!
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Posted - April 15 2016 : 08:13:50 AM
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A DL&W Station made by Ertl collectables.
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Posted - April 15 2016 : 10:04:16 AM
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While back someone suggested I build a nuclear power plant for my NOS nuclear waste
car. The containment dome has since been painted white. My bigger challenge is
trying to fashion the iconic cooling tower with its "waist" shape. Do we have any
potters in the forum who could throw one? Or perhaps someone with a lathe can
turn one out of a block of wood? I got stuffs for trade for that.
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Posted - April 15 2016 : 11:44:09 AM
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| Chops124, go to a lamp or lighting store, a small lamp shade might work just fine, they have the same shape as the cooling tower you want to replicate, give it a good coat of gesso paint and it would look like a concrete tower. Or use some Das Pronto paper clay moistened till it is like a slip and paint it on, the uncolored paper clay is kind of greyish like concrete and when dry becomes a hard surface.
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Posted - April 15 2016 : 6:41:03 PM
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This may seem like wimping out, but not all power plants have cooling towers. Dresden Nuclear Power Plant, the first privately owned plant uses a river or lake, I'm not sure which, for cooling. Along with the containment structure, there should be a big square building for the turbines, generators, etc., and a tall stack like a smokestack. There's no smoke, but in certain mishaps, a short half-life radioactive gas may be vented and has to go out high enough so that it's very dispersed before it gets down to the ground where people live.
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Posted - April 16 2016 : 09:07:06 AM
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Interesting. A lake for a cooling pond. Bet that has some
interesting fish. As for the turbine building, the little shack
will have to do. This is Tycoville after all.
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