Coffee Table Railroad - September 2023 Update - Lights and Animated Billboards
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- The railroad is getting closer to being completed. The lights are mostly finished, and I'm working on making building structures from "scratch" using color laser prints of the building faces and pasting them on little boxes I make out of styrofoam sheets, illustration board, and thick super glue. The led lights that are mounted under the top edge perimeter of the layout, have a lot of different operating modes, with speed and brightness controls among others. In the video I play some music and set the lighting mode to respond to the sound it "hears". Santa Fe, Zenith, and Good Humor animated signs are from Miller Engineering. Other vendors of products worth mentioning include Bachmann, Atlas, Kato, Peco, Walthers, and Woodland Scenics. Please comment and share your ideas with me and everyone else right here, right now. Thanks. PMJ
This could be the most incredible coffee table railroad in existence! I think my favorite part is the little cottage with the little travel trailer parked in the yard.
Quite a compliment, I must say, indeed! Yes, it has developed to a satisfactory level of completion, certainly enough to display and use. There are a lot of problems and things that need to be added or adjusted or even replaced, but ... it's like we used to say ... "Is it good 'enough' ?" I will now work on it at a much less furious pace of buying materials and building with them. However, I need to add ballast to the track, sides to the bridges, telephone lines connecting all the telephone poles and light poles. I have already scratch=built some buildings for the left and right front corners that look really good and so I will do a video about them. I'm considering replacing (upgrading) the buildings in the town to a more ornate and picturesque diorama. I appreciate and look forward to seeing your comment. I know you've been watching all along, so yes... that's quite a compliment. 😎
A great showing !!
Thanks!