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I have found that Model Master "Light Earth" spray makes a great tan brick color. The paint separates as it sprays and ends up spraying a couple colors of brown, tan and black to give the brick a multi color effect without all the work.
This may or may not fit with the weekend update, being as it was Monday... But my kid sister does some pretty intricate work herself, and I thought it would be appropriate to show it here...Oh, and they won $10,000 on Food Network's Cake Wars. Who says good models don't pay!
@SkipGear - That building is awesome. Nicely done.
Yeah, great looking build @SkipGear - which kit is that?Love the finish and paint job.
The Oil City-Olean line was ridden by my father 'commuting' on this line in 1925-28, riding to Warren every day to go to business college. The first year he said it was a self-propelled car (doodlebug), the second year he said it was a regular steam train. I've always found that interesting and wondered if those gas-electric cars were really that unreliable, or what, but for some odd reason, the D16's stayed on the run until the bitter end in 1937, and it's documented in photos. The WNYP book by Pietrak states this was the last regularly scheduled passenger run by D16's, but that leaves the Delmarva ones that ran even later unmentioned. I've had the good fortune to ride and photograph 1223 before she was stuffed and mounted back in the museum at Strasburg. I also had one of those American Flyer 4-4-0's in the 60's that sorta-kinda looked like a D16, so if there's any PRR steam that I have an actual emotional attachment to, it's the D16. When it ran on the Strasburg, I was impressed by how fast it could accelerate, maybe not pull the heaviest train, but could make a short train stand up and notice for sure.Here's one of them - at the north/west end of the run at Olean, NY: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PRR_6217_Olean,_NY.jpgThere's a really old shot published in the Pietrak book at Irvineton about 1890 with three of them on three different trains - and before the drivers were reduced in size. This was really D16 county here.I have the L1, two PRR cabooses, the doodlebug (Bachmann) already; just enough to establish PRR flavor.
Don't think I posted the basement dimensions before. Now I need help with a track plan.
@daniel_leavitt2000, how are the stairs positioned to go up? Do they start at the top of that indent and rise as they run down the drawing, or the reverse?
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