Comments on: Becoming Absorbed In Your Own Model Railroad Is A Great Way To Mentally Escape From The Real World Reality Facing Us All Right Now

By: Monty Bates

Monty Bates — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:20:53 +0000

In reply to David Stokes. A picture of this finished shed would be nice to see once you finish it!

By: Dennis Edgar

Dennis Edgar — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 04:45:24 +0000

In reply to Dave. Hi Dave, would you share your arduino sketch? I have an arduino and I have a turn table that I need to operate electronically. Dennis

By: Skip Duld

Skip Duld — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 05:48:22 +0000

IM DOING JUST THAT , IM WORKING ON PLATFORM, FIXING UP THE HOUSE , HELP TO TAKE OF GRAND KIDS. DOING WHATEVER IT TAKES TO BE BUSY.
THE WEATHER IN MD USA, IS GETTING WARMER SO KNOW IM GOING OUTSIDE OF HOUSE TO DO THINGS OUTSIDE.
TKS FOR ALL UR COMMENTS.

By: Morgan Bilbo

Morgan Bilbo — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:14:53 +0000

As Tom said, this hobby is flexible. Heck – the thing I think is really cool is for those that are physically disabled. But have enough flexibility to create a railroad on a PC and run it virtually. How’s that for a hobby? And for those that are really lazy. Look at all the videos on YouTube about railroads. You can sit for hours and do nothing but watch trains. LOL Seriously, this is the greatest hobby in the world.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:37:06 +0000

on the plus side of it for me who semi retired last year , and lost out on part time work . between the hobby shop being closed and not having the extra money to spend I started to make my own grass tufts , and made 2 Z scale shed type buildings out of scraps from kits that I made , and plan on doing more , and also plan on trying to make my own trees .

By: David Stokes

David Stokes — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 08:14:00 +0000

I have been procrastinating.

The goods shed (freight house) at Freeling has been on the drawing board for 12 years. The real thing is just over my back fence.

Today I began construction. I have cut the walls in 3mm MDF and glued them up with PVA. The Scalescenes “squared ashlar” print I did years ago on A3 sheets were dug out, marked up and cut out. The brick quoins (the bricks at the corners and around windows in freestone buildings here in South Australia) were copied from a card kit developed by a friend of mine who sadly passed away last week. These overlays will be stuck to the MDF shell tomorrow using 3M spray adhesive. The roof structure is MDF too, suitably trimmed to “expose” rafter ends, fascia and guttering. It will have an overlay of “corrugated iron manufactured by painting 5 or so coats of PVA onto a sheet of Aughausen plastic “roofing”

The shed has three doors, the end ones open to allow the loco to deliver wagons into the building, and they used to be arched, but when Webb upgraded the loco fleet in SA in the 1920s, the beautiful stone and brick arches were “slighted” and corrugated iron squared off the opening, but the original doors are still in situ.

The whole catastrophe straddles a platform built of 12mm chipboard suitably disguised with Scalescenes texture sheets.

I don’t know why it has taken me so long – enforced “home isolation” to escape the bug, maybe?

By: Garth

Garth — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 06:54:29 +0000

I am delighted to have 4 weeks lockdown here in New Zealand. The only problem is if the weather is fine I should be gardening or painting, but I am hoping for some bad days as well.

By: Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 03:28:44 +0000

In reply to Tom Roise. Well said Tom.

By: Tom Roise

Tom Roise — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 03:22:52 +0000

I feel sorry for those who do not have a hobby. Trains are so diverse almost anyone could enjoy them and pick their favorite part. What other hobby allows one to dive into electronics. Simple with dc or advanced with dcc. Landscaping. Inside or even outside with G scale. Build cars and engines from kits made of plastic, wood, metal. The same holds for buildings. Build from kits or scratch build your own. The paint and weather them as you see fit. You can model a prototype place, time, industry, the year. Or make up your own.. work with wood and build your own layout. Standalone or on a shelf. Or combination.
Or if none of this interests you, you can research a railroad. Location and time. Or just operate one by joining a club or buy it ready to run out of the box and spend hours in operation following the rules of the road. Or make up your own.
You get to decide. What other hobby has this to offer?????

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 03:17:04 +0000

I have taken advantage of the time get my roundhouse finished and am working on using an Arduino to control rotation