If any of you are into vehicles, mostly HO, there is a great website that has thousands of trucks, trailers, cars and detail parts. The name is...
My wife is an avid quilter. Awhile back she gave me her extra rotary cutter to see if it was of any use in modeling. It is! Yesterday, I was...
Today I won an auction on E-bay that included two 26' trailers similar to the ones in the attached photograph. Does anyone know if decals exist...
My wife told me that we need some prickly pear cactus on the layout. This is Texas, after all. How in the heck would you make prickly pear...
There are a couple of trucks on the layout that do not really fit my era, so I am going to part with them. One is a Mack chain drive dump truck...
Tom Holley gave me the idea last week of doing a QA&P weed sprayer. Since there were a couple of cars laying around that fit the project, I...
There are a couple of freight cars on the layout that have been sitting there for years collecting dust. Every once in awhile I use a super fine...
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Finally got around to detailing the ABA set of Alco FA's that have been on a shelf for years. The gears were all changed; Leslie 5 chime horn...
One of my best friends has a grandson who is autistic. He's extremely intelligent and is able to accomplish detailed tasks, he just has issues in...
Recently I found a set of old Balboa brass full length passenger cars. They are painted for a road which ran close to the area I model, so I...
The same neighbor has gifted me with yet more HO scale stuff. There are actually a couple of usable items in the box. After some online research...
Recently I was the recipient of a bag of date nails. Many of these came from the Paducah, TX, area, which is QA&P territory. Never having done...
Today my next neighbor gave me this crane. He found it an an Amazon returns store and thought of me since my layout is HO. This is obviously a log...
The model railroading hobby has gotten so expensive that I look for every opportunity possible to build stuff out of things you normally find...
My wife and I have noticed that most counties in west Texas still have the old stone county jail building somewhere in the town that is the county...
One of the flat cars my friend sent was a Frisco flat car. It is yellow plastic with pad printed black lettering. The stake pockets are round...
Were Texas Special units made in plastic or are the Hallmark brass ones the only ones? Proto 2000 did a boat load of E units 25ish years ago, but...
Used another one of the extremely crude flat cars that a friend sent me. Man, some people shouldn't even try to model...It would take two...
A friend recently sold me a bunch of cheap flatcars, all badly needing renovation and repairs. The first became the military flat that I posted in...
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