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- Since my last topic was glass, I will keep it separate from this post. Acrylic, and other clear plastic. Some tips on cutting, (without a mini table saw), easiest to use, etc. Any and all tips would be appreciated.
  
  Windows part II
  Last reply by Ross Mansell on 4 hours ago
  
  Modeling
  
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  What have you built lately?
  
  OK....A few mods(which I call easy) that can be done too these cars that make them look a bit better. As Tim Brien stated in another thread these cars are really good looking and well made right out of the box. One of the issues I didn't like was the clear marker lights on the end of the cars as they should be red. This is an easy fix as you just slide the doors open and remove the clear plastic sprue. I then just dabbed some red paint on the back of the sprue and reinserted it. This makes for v...
  
  Building and Bashing Amtrak Equipment
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  Rolling stock
  
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  Rolling stock
  
  While waiting on some Mason Bogie parts I have decided on using the left over parts to build a small side tank industrial tank engine. Took the two cab sections and mated them together and glued the two pieces of leftover roofs together. Found the side tanks from a LGB 2017 engine that came off of Rosy, cut off the tab and started filling in some of the holes. Found that the width of the two coupled with a 3/4" PVC coupling was the same width as the cab. Added the wood bunker from th...
  
  Making of Old Joe
  Last reply by Bill Barnwell on Thu at 10:50 AM
  
  Motive Power
  
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  Talk about your locomotives here.
  
  Hi folks The purpose of this forum is to act as a repository of drawings, images, files, etc, of anything railroad related. You can either upload the file, or post a link to it as a message.
  
  Purpose of this forum
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  Reference
  
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  Discussion area for reference drawings and information.
  
  Some of you may know that I've used Shapeways a lot over the last 5 or 6 years, especially for model-making for my full time job. I've generally used their (cheapest) SLS nylon, because it's... cheap. Not fantastic detail, but very rugged, and the build volumes are large. I don't use FDM much, because my machine no workie, and the SLS doesn't have the layered effect. Recently (for a couple years?) they've offered "engineering plastic," which has finer detail and better ...
  
  A possible Shapeways alternative for nyl...
  Last reply by Cliff Jennings on January 7
  
  Technical Modeling
  
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  Discussing techniques for using 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC machines, and other computer-driven modeling tools
  
  Looking for American railroad figures in the 1:24 to 1:22.5 range, there are a lot of 1:20:3 figure out there but they are a little large for LGB, like the Just Plain Folk ones but they are limited to Railroad workers, any others?
  
  looking for figures
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  Figures
  
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  Make your own figures, or modify existing ones? Share your techniques with the rest of us.
  
  Well I have been obsessing about this since it was I woke up. I had two ideas that made my short list for the MIK if they fit the theme. Given that we have a chimney one rose to the top; an ice house/loading facility. As someone who remain nameless (Craig) pointed out on Facebook where I always post my progress for my non LSC friends and family to follow "an ice house with a chimney??" well this is for that new fangled hot ice. No, the employees need a place for the coffee pot. I have a...
  
  Pepper's Ice Co. - Devon's 2020 MIK
  Last reply by Devon Sinsley on 4 hours ago
  
  Annual Build Challenge
  
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  Home of the Napkin Builder. Every year LSC has a build challenge, in memory of a long term member Mik
  
  I have wanted to build this layout for a very long time. I have enjoyed On30 for about 10 years now. I have built two mini layouts that have graced the electronic pages of this fine site for quite some time. A sugar cane hauler set in 1920 Haiti and a primitive backwoods logging operation set in 1910 Kentucky and Tennessee. But the ET &WNC RR ,”Tweetsie” has always held a special place in my model railroading heart. When Bachmann came out with their magnificent Baldwin 10 wheele...
  
  The Blue Ridge Stemwinder in On30
  Last reply by Tom Grabenstein on Thu at 9:23 PM
  
  O / On30
  
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  The smallest Large Scale
  
  Just out of the shop 7/8th's The local Sheriff rounding up drunks again.
  
  Paddy wagon
  Last reply by Devon Sinsley on January 6
  
  Other Scales
  
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  For discussion of any other scales. N? 1 1/2"? Sn3?
  
  I have decided to take on a project to scratch build a firehouse for my club's holiday train display (WVMGRS at Brookside Gardens). (My first scratchbuild, btw) I would like to build a core structure, and then cover the core with a brick texture. Using this handy ppt: (https://piedmontgardenrailway.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/BUILDING-OUTDOOR-STRUCTURES.pdf), I decided that Coroplast or Sintra would be the best material(s) to use for the core, as they are easy to work with. So my q...
  
  Sintra vs. Coroplast
  Last reply by David Maynard on November 25, 2019
  
  Tools and Tips
  
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  Tips and Tricks for everything from X-Acto knives to Zona saws.

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