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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips: Painting Bragdon Geodesic Foam Castings
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips. Some infrequent tips and tricks that will take some of the headaches away when you are building your model railroad modules or layout. Painting Bragdon Geodesic Foam Castings. Apply the gesso full strength to the rock castings with an inexpensive stiff brush. Gesso is not. Before continuing to paint your scenery. Clean your brush with soap and water. Fig. 11. A better, more controllable approach is to create the shadows first with black powdered tempera paint, before t...
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips: March 2013
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips. Some infrequent tips and tricks that will take some of the headaches away when you are building your model railroad modules or layout. Installing The Bell Module To The Level Crossing. In a previous post. In any electronic circuitry involving lights, action or sound activated by the movement of a passing train, compatibility of the electronic unit with block detection becomes very important. Innovative Train Technology Products. And you have more than enough sound to w...
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips: January 2011
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips. Some infrequent tips and tricks that will take some of the headaches away when you are building your model railroad modules or layout. Installing RJ12 Telco Jacks - Part 1 - Getting Ready. Wow, hard to believe we've been away from this blog for almost 12 months. For those of you who were following our posts last year and wondering where we had disappeared to, my apologies. Things have been quite busy as you might see from our Railway Rambling blog. However, before we g...
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips: July 2014
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips. Some infrequent tips and tricks that will take some of the headaches away when you are building your model railroad modules or layout. Painting Bragdon Geodesic Foam Castings. Apply the gesso full strength to the rock castings with an inexpensive stiff brush. Gesso is not. Before continuing to paint your scenery. Clean your brush with soap and water. Fig. 11. A better, more controllable approach is to create the shadows first with black powdered tempera paint, before t...
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips: February 2010
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips. Some infrequent tips and tricks that will take some of the headaches away when you are building your model railroad modules or layout. Wire Threader and Long Drill Bit. Here's a couple of handy tools for getting those track feeds through thick Styrofoam mountains. They're made from a couple of coat hangers. Kinda fancy, eh! Posted by Railway Bob. Installing The Track Power Buss. We've got the module deck completed. We started out with some. Here in Canada, Princess Auto.
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips: Assembling The Servo/Well Assembly
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips. Some infrequent tips and tricks that will take some of the headaches away when you are building your model railroad modules or layout. Assembling The Servo/Well Assembly. Posted by Railway Bob. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Previous Steps In Building Our Modules. Programming The Servos and Touch Toggles. Installing the Servo/Well Assembly. Assembling The Servo/Well Assembly. Berrett Hill Touch Toggle Turnout Control System -. Keep your fingers away from the blade!
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips: January 2010
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips. Some infrequent tips and tricks that will take some of the headaches away when you are building your model railroad modules or layout. T-Nuts For Alignment Pins/Bolts. Since we're building our two modules as a set that will join together, we may want some kind of "mechanism" that will help us to align the two modules when we connect them together with C-clamps. Modifying T-nuts For Alignment Bolts and Pins. 3) Once you've drilled out the threads, you have what I call a...
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips: June 2011
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips. Some infrequent tips and tricks that will take some of the headaches away when you are building your model railroad modules or layout. Fixing The Short In The Peco Insulfrog. As we mentioned in our previous post, the Peco Insulfrog is definitely DCC ready right out of the box! Let's take a look at how this shorting occurs. In the diagram below, as the locomotive wheel travels along the inside diverging rail, it starts to overhang the inside mainline rail. And yet the f...
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips: Installing the Servo/Well Assembly
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips. Some infrequent tips and tricks that will take some of the headaches away when you are building your model railroad modules or layout. Installing the Servo/Well Assembly. Now that we have our Servo/Well assembly all together, we can now install it into our module or layout. Locating the Hole For the Servo/Well Assembly. If a wooden deck, drill a 1 5/8" diameter hole with the keyhole saw. If a Styrofoam deck, very carefully, drill a 1 1/2" diameter hole with the key...
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips: January 2013
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Railway Bob's Module Building Tips. Some infrequent tips and tricks that will take some of the headaches away when you are building your model railroad modules or layout. The Peco Electrofrog - Modifications. So far, we've taken car e of Step 1) - Adding insulated rail jo iners beyond the fro g. This gets rid of the "permanent" short. We may still h. Ave an intermittent short as our locomotives go through the points and the inside and mainline diverging rails. S ome modificat ions to the wiring. Step 2 -...