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Had to redo some of my overhead, which was tricky, but working again. Whew!
#ModelTrolley #ModelTram #NCat #NScale #NScaleTraction

14mission Jun 1, 2025

Overhead lines repair. Pantographs were getting stuck on a big solder blob (why this was not an issue originally and suddenly became one is a mystery, but it was definitely a bit of work I wanted to do better on anyway), but things are tided up and trolley service has been resumed.
#ModelTrolley #ModelTram #NScale #NScaleTraction

14mission Nov 19, 2024

Here's some of the inspiration for my #NScale ice cream parlor. A nice old brick building, which for a while was an actual ice cream parlor (now a coffee bar, and going by the stained glass window signage (very nice) once a stationery store), and a current ice cream place with a giant cone as a 3d sign.
#scalemodel #modeltrain #modeltrolley #modelrailroad

14mission Nov 18, 2024

Attempting to make a giant (for #NScale, so actually tiny) ice cream cone to hang in front of the ice cream parlor on my #ModelTrolley layout.
I put a dowel in a pencil sharpener to make a cone, rounded off the other end, and coated it with wood glue. Looks decent now. Might shrivel up an loose that nice rounded scoop shape as it dries; we'll see.
#ModelTrain #nscaletraction #modelrailroad #scalemodel

14mission Nov 17, 2024

This is a little #NScale project that's been sitting around almost done for years. It's intended to be an ice cream parlor. It's inspired by one we used to have here in Redwood City, which went out of business (but the location now contains a coffee bar, so kind of OK). Thought I had a picture of the building in that incarnation, but can't find it-- but I found one from a really old Yelp review!
All the model really needs is a giant (in scale terms) ice cream cone suspended over the door, interior lighting, and if I really go nuts some interior furnishings upstairs.
#ModelTrain #ModelTrolley #nscaletraction #modelrailroad #scalemodel

14mission Aug 5, 2024

The "country" end of the layout is a little less bare.

#Nscale
#modeltrain
#modelrailroad
#modeltrolley
#microlayout
#nscaletraction

14mission Aug 5, 2024

Mush up some Woodland Scenics "course turf" with scenic glue, glom it onto the branches. It dries into a nice blob of treeish looking stuff.

(One thing to look out for--if you want to glue on more stuff, getting it wet will re-liquify the glue so your already done foliage might fall off!)

#Nscale
#modeltrain
#modelrailroad
#modeltrolley
#microlayout
#nscaletraction

14mission Aug 5, 2024

Been working on an #NScale tree. I found some brown floral wire at a craft store. Twisted some strands together, and twisted the branches around (I love trees but they do kinda look like eldritch horrors sometimes). Slathered on some brown brown powder (it may actually be dirt; it's been in my modelling supplies so long I forget where it came from) mixed with scenic glue (basically matte-drying white glue).

#modeltrain #modelrailroad #modeltrolley #microlayout #nscaletraction