Recent content by omrick

If you are doing grass by a fire hydrant, use yellow near it for dog pee! lol

Thank you all for your replies. I am going to search the thrift stores and hopefully, only buy a blender. I stopped at one place and came out with a coffee grinder. I am fighting a forty five year habit as a pack rat. It is harder to kick pack ratting than it was to quit smoking. lol

Thank you all for the information. I did read the postings from 2005 about the blender method. My thoughts were to find a way to crystalize the foam rubber. I have in the past seen this material in large chunks that had become semi-hard and were easy to crush up with bare hands. I don't know...

Hi again. I have searched the forums, but have not seen what I want. I have an older piece of foam rubber from a car seat. I have tried grinding it with various tools, but can't get the effect I want. I think that if the foam rubber was a bit harder it would work. I remember in the long...

Thank you all. Maybe I should reconsider being so cheap and buy the decals. Or another option is to paint all my rolling stock white and use black lettering. lol

I want to make a lot of my own decals, but am stymied on how to print white. I surfed for data, but have only found silk screen printing. Gold and Silver are a consideration also. Has anybody had experience with decal making. :confused:

Thanks for the info. This appears to be a big site and I got lost a few times. It does look very interesting and I will be around for a while. I have to renew my knowledge of trains as the last time I had a layout of any size was in the 70's. See ya round!

I just found this site while I was looking for photos of an old roundhouse that used to be on Howard Avenue in Windsor, Ontario, where I live. I am just rebuilding my old HO scale train layout and spend a lot of time on the computer looking for train photos to download. My preference is steam...