Posted a new blog entry on my business site comparing three common bench work footprints. Here’s the link: http://shelflayouts.com/2016/07/model-railroad-bench-work-footprints/
Author: Lmind1
Printing Better Images
From the emails I receive, I can tell folks struggle with how to optimize the printed image output quality for their photo wallpaper. It can be confusing so let’s go through a short primer. There are essentially two steps. First, you need to save the photo in a way that maximizes how many ink dots […]
4535 East 48th Street
Next on the docket is the back side of the one-story warehouse at 4535 E. 48th Street. The faded cream bricks, graffiti, and weathering make it a motherload of color and texture. Construction started with a considerable number of hours spent photo editing my site photos into something that could be made useable for […]
A Gap Filler
I needed to come up with something to fill a three inch or so wide gap between two structures. As always the challenge is to find something that doesn’t look too “model railroady” which is often what we (I) end up with when left to my imagination. A scan through my files of my site […]
News
Tom Klimoski just sent me a link to his latest(excellent) YouTube video of operations on his Georgia Northeastern layout. You can see it HERE. Or enter it manually: https://youtu.be/YFbQXodAxQI Featured in the July issue of RMC is an exceptional article on painting and weathering locomotive trucks by Shawn Branstetter. The results are amazing! If you aren’t […]