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Whoa! That Matchbox truck alone looks incredible, along with the Signal Tower. Very realistic work here.
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Posted - June 09 2020 : 09:29:19 AM
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| This layout looks so great!!
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Hello everyone it's been a while since i posted a video.
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Posted - August 21 2020 : 02:11:25 AM
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| Thanks for sharing. Whole lot of work goimng on.
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Posted - August 21 2020 : 09:34:51 AM
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Layout looks great! Some really nice work you're doing.
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Awesome work! Love that interior on the signal tower and the kitbashed engine shed.
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Hi all It's been a while since i've done much yo the layout. I was doing some rebuilding of the bench
work to change a curve to a 22 inch radius. When I added 6 inches to end of the layout it opened up the
end of the layout for a new neighborhood. It's made using some Atlas, Woodland Scenics and Walthers houses I cut half.
And a short update Video.
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Posted - November 27 2020 : 02:35:45 AM
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Nice clip Bamos...
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Thanks Walt.
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Posted - November 27 2020 : 9:28:56 PM
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Great updates! Love those shelves right above the layout.
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| Interesting techniques, keep us posted.
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Hello everyone I've been working on the layout again on the end by the neighborhood on the end behind the
roundhouse. I was not sure what to with it for the longest time but i made the decision to use a GC laser
pump house kit I got years ago when i was modeling the Great Northern. The pump house and some of their
other small kits are based on Great Northern prototypes.
So I got started on the kit and then ordered a Tichey water tower kit from Ebay in between steps on the kit I
started plastering. painting and ballasting the track. I dont like to do more than a small section at a time so I
warp my track and roadbed.
First i started building up parts with cork
Then slopped on some green latex paint from the returns bin at Walmart and added a parking lot to the 7-11
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That's looking really good! I'm truly in awe of such realism.
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Thank you Robert.
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I did not get a lot done on my layout for a while now work has been busy. I started putting some scenery
around the neighborhood and ballasting the track.
I have been doing some weathering of my non TYCO rolling stock most of these have some repair done.
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Posted - April 18 2021 : 11:24:33 PM
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Looking grimy, Bamos, which is to say great. Only Model Rail Heads
can find beauty in dirt and rust. I like the tar stripes to that roof, also.
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Ballast is on point. Also, nice weathering work
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Nice realistic scenes.
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Nice job of scenery. Looking back at the old picture where the buildings are placed but the scenery isn't there yet, the buildings and track kind of look like something that just fell out of the sky and doesn't belong. With the grass and ballast in place, things really seem to belong. It's no longer a table full of things. It's a scene. 
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After a year of not touching the layout, I've decided to make some changes. I added a switch to make a larger loop. Switching was one thing the magazines said I wanted but it turned out I just like to run my trains In circles .
And I redid the crossing to add pedestrian access.
And the finished crossing. It still needs a crossing shanty. I want to build one like the TYCO animated crossing guard to put here that will match the one I got from Goodwill.
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When I rebuilt Henley, one of my goals was to minimize switching on the mains. Switches tend to invite trouble, and I wanted things to run
without having to go back in and endlessly tinker trying to get them
right. Your road work is very impressive. Lot of frost heaves. I guess
Joe's infrastructure money hasn't hit town yet.
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| Looks great! I understand the affinity for just watching the trains run! I'm not sure if it's been said already, but what was your technique for painting the roads?
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These roads are styrene and I stipple several different grays on to add texture and then drybrush with a light grey. My next roads I'm going to do with mat board to add the texture as the painting is time consuming. And the weathering is just artist chalks. I find it easier to not over weather things without the fixative in the chalk.
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Chops part of the problems were the switches. I had painted them, and it was causing power problems, so I am going through and stripping the paint from the closure rails and joints. They may not look realistic, but they operate much better.
I am also going around and lowering the grade crossings and moving my station and freight platforms further away from the track to make cleaning easier.
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Posted - February 01 2023 : 12:20:20 PM
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instead of cutting up nice models for background buildings
you could use these flat buildings by Cat's Meow 
the lighthouse on the left is a inland lighthouse at the local lake here built by the CCC
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Yes, but one of my favorite things to do is to cut up nice models and make them unique to my layout.
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This is my project from the last two weekend's. It started as an old glue bomb Lionel building and a Walthers Electricorp Supply I picked for 50 percent off.
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Posted - February 08 2023 : 12:58:40 PM
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| kinda looks like the Pickle Factory Model Power & other made
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Good work, bamos! The detailing around the would-be replaced roofing is a nice touch.
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Thank you RP. The roofing tar is Dollar Tree puffy fabric paint.
I had to stop on it to get some windows and details painted so since I was going to have the paint out I decided to work and some of the pickle cars. They weren't in very good shape when I bought them so I cleaned them up, made some repairs and scratch built some of the missing pieces.
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Posted - February 13 2023 : 6:42:53 PM
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now that I think of it
the Pickle Factory was called Heinz originally then it went to Klassic
I'd still do it in Heinz
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Yes Ben it will be supplier for Heinz and i just finished putting some dullcoat on 2 of the cars.
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| I got that 1 Pickle Vat car by Revell
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New Video.
https://youtu.be/4Zbs9zsOzNM
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Phooey! "Adobe Flash Player is no longer supported," whatever that means!
Missing out on the latest in the CV action!!!
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I posted the direct link. I still have problems with the video posting link.
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Posted - February 20 2023 : 6:02:12 PM
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Amazing attention to detail on your layout! I love it.
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Looks really great! The pickle plant has so much detail and is quite realistic looking. Also, I didn't know that is how pickles were transported. 
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Thank you, everyone, for the nice comments . I do like to add details it can make a scene come alive.
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| That is an impressive amount of detail on the pickle factory. I also learned something about how pickles used to be stored and transported!
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Been Working On lighting the pickle factory and finished the salting platform.
I've also been working on some cars from Ebay. I had some old decals I wanted to use so I bought some junk cars, the pickle car i posted already. The old Microscale decals were breaking apart but I got there in the end
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Posted - March 16 2023 : 08:31:34 AM
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Continues to amaze. Talking dollar cars and revamping them into
top shelf modeling. Love the pickle vats- that kicked it up to a new
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The lights are starting to come back on in town at the Depot. I made changes to the whole area. I made the depot modular and moved the whole thing back away from the track to make track cleaning easier. I also added the phone booth and relocated the light pole.
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Posted - June 13 2023 : 8:56:52 PM
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Your lighting work is impressive - looks very realistic
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Thank you, it's nothing special it's just lights from the Dollar Tree and a Woodland Scenics light hub.
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Posted - June 16 2023 : 12:30:52 AM
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It's always great when one can make something on the cheap. It really
adds a popcracklesnap to what your are doing. Since I don't run
trains in the dark too much, I am hoping to insert a couple battery
powered Tea Lights from Dollar General in some buildings for
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Hello everyone.
I finally had some time at the workbench. I'm on light duty at work until I can have surgery in 4 months for a bad hip.
I had sold some of my pre-made menards buildings to make room for some kits I had built. So the Walthers Bauer family pharmacy took its place, but with a few modifications .
It's now the Fat Bunnie Yarn shop and I made it into a walk up apartment. It still needs some work done to it.
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