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[quote="pauly"]Iv been very busy these last couple of days.
what with it getting darker sooner on evenings I cant let my 3 inch high passengers ride in dark carriages!
I could just fit lghts to my existing coaches but I used it as an excuse to paint some Bachmann pre lit coaches
Do you have any photos of them lit up! _________________
and Iv hated every minute of it!
I couldnt get a clean cut on the curves and the instructions where infuriatingley bad! I knew your supposed to read ahead but thats no excuse for bad instructions! at 1 point it tells me to paint the boiler, fair enough but then on the next page it tells me to put it in a vice and drill a hole through it! shurley it makes more sense to put it in a vice and drill it first before painting it.....
and when I was fitted the motor unit I thought I could smell something comming form the motor and leaned in close, a lock of my long hair got caught in the gears! I had my finger on the switch so it didnt pull me in to far.
It mus have looked hillairious! the engines light enough to be supported by my hair so when I got it caught and jumped back I had a locomotive hanging fro my head!
had to cut a chunk of my hair off to free myslef then had to spend a good half hour pick hair out of the motor...
anyway heres some pics
I wont be making cardboard models again anytime soon because its such a redundent way of making models now that we have access to plasticard which is much easier to use. _________________ The Woodrow story
http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org/ftopic10347-0.php
Iron and steal runs through the blood of my people and without it we will surley die!
I think that this would be cool in styrene as a trackside item. The "kit" is free, so no reason why it couldn't be used as the template for a styrene version. Be a bit more durable too... _________________ '48 Farmall Cub "Black Cat"
Mamod TE1A "Kayenta"
Wilesco Traktor
Wilesco "Old Smokey" roller
Red Rocks Railroad
Mamod SL "Los Dos"
Accucraft Ruby
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Engine of the Month December Rob's
Accucraft "Ruby" Locomotive Kit 2008 / 2009
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, although I can see the frustration and annoyance in working with cardboard 
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