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  1. Lightbender

    Terrible weathering job

    Hi, I like to play with my trains, my camera, my cello and my Mac. and this is what happened; Heisler triple header The drums and vocals are by Shaywen (of pink foam portal tutorial fame) Tony.
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    Gotta have Flash!

    I have been playing at youTUBE where you get to share videos with the world. I have uploaded a couple of my big ones but the quality has deteriorated somewhat. Not that they were all that great to begin with. Auggy's new Shay CN diesel Highballing equipment slideshow WARNING...
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    Pink Foam Portal - Tutorial

    This is the Portal Tutorial project which is entirely the work of fellow Gauger Shaywen. She designed, built and documented the 2 Portals shown in the following pictures. This tutorial is on our web site and wasn't posted to the Gauge because she didn't think it was that useful. I guess if any...
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    Happy St George's day

    I know it's almost over but may I wish all Gaugers a happy dragon slaying day in honour of Englands patron saint. I raise an ale to you all.
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    New camera but no Macro...sigh

    I just got a new digicam and it has lots of features, including AVI movies and tv out. whee! but unfortunately no macro. So...here's a shot taken through my optivisor lens of my new P2k 0-8-0 switcher.
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    With apologies to Cid

    With apologies to Cid - Warning! Latin content I know it is considered extremely bad form to correct someone's English spelling or grammar on an international list and I agree with the common sentiment that only arrogant insensitive self styled elitists deign to try, however, I am unsure of the...
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    St. David's day

    Hey guys, I know it's late but happy St David's to all with any claim to Welshness. Hope you all enjoyed a Welsh Rarebit and had a nice leek
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    New Portal and tree planting

    I made a couple of portals over the weekend from bamboo skewers because I needed something anything. A little more paint and they could be keepers; I also made some ground foam, spread it around and did a little more tree planting; Luckily Shaywen showed up with her camera and...
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    Highballing, where did it come from?

    I was having a conversation with a fellow enthusiast when the origin of the term we all use so flagrantly was questioned. I assumed it was taken from some ancient steam pressure reading device that was a precursor to those high tech modern fangled dial jobbies. Does anyone know the real...
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    switching problem?

    Hello All, I decided I would take advantage of a few days off work to get a lot of modelling done and tidy up the train room......but, I did nothing at all except run trains. Sad to admit I even moved things like tools and stuff out of the way rather than putting them away. So there I was...
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    video

    Hello All, I see this forum covers video topics but I can't seem to find any. I had great fun browsing through a lot of the topics but nothing about using video cameras or train cams. Do we not use them or do we not talk about it. I realise that these pictures run into gigabytes quite quickly...