I found a site that has a ton of free, printable stuff for dollhouses, such as wallpapers, vintage magazines and newspapers, grocery packages, etc. You can easily scale them down as needed for whatever scale you’re modeling…
http://www.mysmallobsession.com/miniature-printables.html
This is also good places for free printable stuff
Cool, thanks for those links!
STOP the insanity …I refuse to model interiors! I do like the Victorian collections though
David Russell said:
STOP the insanity …I refuse to model interiors! I do like the Victorian collections though
David, I totally agree. I am beginning to hate this site. Everyday I come here and find something to distract me and draw me away from what I am supposed to be doing. Its like going to Daytona Beach at spring break. Focus is becoming a problem.
well, just to distract you guys a little more:
http://kormsen.info/how/
scroll down a little. below the pics of boxes are three links with more boxes. printer ready.
(the links are very visible. light green on light brown…)
Korm Kormsen said:
well, just to distract you guys a little more:
http://kormsen.info/how/
scroll down a little. below the pics of boxes are three links with more boxes. printer ready.
(the links are very visible. light green on light brown…)
Korm,
What is a suckergum?? I am assuming it is a pacifier??? i was looking at your link and pin coupler farther down and I love it. But trying to figure out what your thinking on the link.
Devon
To help Devon focus: Decide what is the greatest weakness of your railroad. Make it your immediate priority to turn that into the best thing about your railroad. It becomes the project you should be working on right now. Forget all the rest.
This advice comes from Linn Westcott, the gread former editor of Model Railroader Magazine, and in my opinion, one of the two greatest editors the magazine ever had.
At the beginning my own goal was to have an operating railroad.
My first weakness was the lack of track. So I put all my effort into fixing that right away. I hastily laid down some track. After that the greatest weakness was that trains weren’t running yet, so I did something about that right away.
Now the best thing about my railroad was that trains actually ran. Not great, but I was 'way ahead of where I had been a couple of days ago.
But the trains ran off the track. Now my priority was to have the best track I could create.
And so on, one priority at a time, always setting out to turn the worst aspect into the best. When you work to this plan, every improvement raises the quality of the whole railroad.
Works for me…
John Le Forestier said:
To help Devon focus: Decide what is the greatest weakness of your railroad. Make it your immediate priority to turn that into the best thing about your railroad. It becomes the project you should be working on right now. Forget all the rest. This advice comes from Linn Westcott, the gread former editor of Model Railroader Magazine, and in my opinion, one of the two greatest editors the magazine ever had. At the beginning my own goal was to have an operating railroad. My first weakness was the lack of track. So I put all my effort into fixing that right away. I hastily laid down some track. After that the greatest weakness was that trains weren’t running yet, so I did something about that right away. Now the best thing about my railroad was that trains actually ran. Not great, but I was 'way ahead of where I had been a couple of days ago. But the trains ran off the track. Now my priority was to have the best track I could create. And so on, one priority at a time, always setting out to turn the worst aspect into the best. When you work to this plan, every improvement raises the quality of the whole railroad. Works for me…
John,
My railroads greatest weakness is its president and CEO. . . Me. Like most things in life the CEO tries to micro manage and not let his officers and supervisors (also me) do the job they are trained to do. So this hinders the effectiveness of the supervisors and trickle down theory results in the workers (me again) being disorganized and without clear direction.
No in all seriousness you offered this advice before to me and I have taken it. I have set aside all other ambitions beyond having one static display piece (though it will be a working train) first. Thats what I really want. I have a photo of a mixed train that I am replicating starting with the loco. My immediate concern is this train and have even prioritized how that will be developed loco, tender, coaches, caboose, and box car in that order.
I honestly do appreciate the advice. It is far to easy for me to chase squirals.
devon
John, that is good advice. Right now my weakness is too many projects in various states of incompletion. One year I did work on that, and cleared 19 projects off my in progress list. This year I have accomplished a heck of a lot less.
Seriously, the weaknesses of my railroad is lack of P&CS equipment, and lack of buildings. If I could get off my dead end, I could have 3 flat cars done for the P&CS in short order. They just need lettered at this point and a few detail parts added.
Stop it!
Yea, eyes sittin on my dead end again clicking this thing they call a mouse. I dunno why they call it that, I had pet mouses as a kid, and this aint no mouse.
Yummm…
Devon Sinsley said:
What is a suckergum?? I am assuming it is a pacifier??? i was looking at your link and pin coupler farther down and I love it. But trying to figure out what your thinking on the link.
Devon
yes, the diccionary says it is a pacifier, comforter, dummy or soother.
and the plastic chains, that come with these, are fine chains for our use.
i just color them with a grey marker.
David Maynard said:
John, that is good advice. Right now my weakness is too many projects in various states of incompletion. One year I did work on that, and cleared 19 projects off my in progress list. This year I have accomplished a heck of a lot less.
Seriously, the weaknesses of my railroad is lack of P&CS equipment, and lack of buildings. If I could get off my dead end, I could have 3 flat cars done for the P&CS in short order. They just need lettered at this point and a few detail parts added.
I gather, David, that this is about repainting and lettering for your RR???
Having my own gear lettered for my own railroad has given me a tremendous moral boost.
I confess that at first it took courage to repaint and weather cars that had cost me a lot of money to buy. I broke through this barrier of resistance as follows: “I’m going to be dead before I ever resell this stuff, and there won’t be many people buying it then anyway, so prices will be very low, even for mint cars I bet, and why should I care anyway? What the heck am I being fussy about? Enjoy them NOW while you’ve got a few years left to enjoy them. Go for it. Paint them how you want them!”
After that I had a great time doing the deed. I enjoyed each refinishing and weathering job a little more than the one before, and I’ve never regretted any of it one little bit.
My weathered cars look WAY better than the factory-new ones. I set up an assembly line of sorts, and painted, lettered, numbered, and weathered my cars in batches. Once I was set up for this work on the dining room table it all went smoothly and efficiently, and with no regrets either!
It’s a great winter project: Start now!!!
Way to go John!!
John Le Forestier said: My weathered cars look WAY better than the factory-new ones.
Sean: I’m holding back on the pics because I’m doing a clinic and follow up articles on all this in January.
However, you can see a tiny sample in a teaser I placed in our club newsletter in October.
Go to http://www.backyardrailroaders.com/newsletter.html and download the Oct 2014 Newsletter, then scroll down to page 10.
Admittedly, there’s only some renumbering and a little weathering in the picture, but for now I’m afraid you’ll have to settle for that. The full Monte will have many more images, before/after comparisons, and some really good stuff not even hinted at here.
But all these thrills will not be fully revealed until the new year. We have to keep 'em begging for more, y’know! That’s show biz!
Cheers, and thanks a million for your interest. Stay tuned!
Korm Kormsen said:
Devon Sinsley said:
What is a suckergum?? I am assuming it is a pacifier??? i was looking at your link and pin coupler farther down and I love it. But trying to figure out what your thinking on the link.
Devon
yes, the diccionary says it is a pacifier, comforter, dummy or soother.
and the plastic chains, that come with these, are fine chains for our use.
i just color them with a grey marker.
Thanks. I believe I will give your coupler idea a try.