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Friday, July 22, 2011

T-GUAGE IN MACRO VIEW

im STILL amazed at the details on this small itty-bitty model train i own.

i was goofballing down at the club and took these shots of soe of the buildings and scenic stuff in MACRO, which is a higher quality shot when your taking something close up. which in order to see clearly, has to be done in order to see ANYTHING in these tiny little things.

as a note, the buildings have actual floors, and the floors themselves house a variety of differnt things depending on the building itself.
the office building had desks, and file cabinets, and a staircase.
the home has a 1st floor with a couch and tv, stairs to the second floor, which it has a bedroom with a bed and dresser in it.

unfortunately you can t see that, even in the macro shot. ill have to disasemble them and take more macros of just the interiors.
my question has always been...WHY? with even the naked eye you cant discern the details to any great degree, would you even think to do that?
my husbands answer to that question is: "because they can."
i suppose.

hers the pics. ENJOY!
MICHELLE

me holding my yellow t-gauge

look how small this thing actually is!

my t-gauge next to a standard sized stick of gum.

ON the gum itself.

T-Gauge House. if you look closely in that top window you can see theres somthing 'dark' in there, thats some peice of furniture on that floor.

another shot, "dark object" still there.

same house, now you can almost make out the bed and dresser in this shot.

i lost the bottom floor somewhere, apparently. it has a couch and TV set on it.  wouldnt know that by looking at these few pics tho, very empty in there without at least a floor.

Building, shot of the stairwell

sorry about the tape. the parts done all go together and fit perfectly. the bottoms like to fall off and out, so i taped them.

front of the same building, and you can barely see the floors have objects on them.

different building


again, each floor has something placed on it for depth. great in a macro shot, but to the naked eye, almost impossible to even see that detail.

Z Scale house (chewed lovingly by one of my dogs) and my T-Gauge House. pretty big size differential.

Z Scale Caboose, and my T-Gauge Train Car.

T-Gauge in the front, Z scale caboose right behind, and an N-scale brass caboose furthest back.

sorry about the quality. my T-Gauge against the N-Scale caboose.

t-gauge people and animals. Horses, and cows, and other things i cant exactly make out due to their size. i think its all livestock, or barn animals. by the way..ALL PAINTED!


my husbands fingers to show how very small these items are. i dont think youd see them actually On a display. youd certainly never miss them, and could possibly never find them if they fell off...smaller than a grain of rice these are.


Saturday, June 25, 2011

FERRIS WHEEL HAS ARRIVED




its an early arrival, could have sworn my husband told me tueday next week sometime...but it doesnt matter.

i FINALLY have the thing here.

now, to figure out what color scheme to paint it.
im thinking the wheel part blue will be a black.

the seats yellow will be neon: yellow, pink, green, blue, and purple, and maybe orange.

the legs (red) will be...black?
i just realized theres spokes on the wheel, in a kind of star shape...id like to offset those as neone colors and alternate the color of the seat against an opposite neon spoke...might be TOO MUCH neon tho, if i do that.

the ground (brown) will remain...brown.

craig reminded me...
ill have to do itty bitty stenciled LOGO icons for this (item that shall not be named)...to which i gave a less than enthusiastic...your right. reply back.

i havnt opened it yet, i dont have the colors i need yet to even start, so im holding off on that part till i have some paints.

MICHELLE

Friday, June 24, 2011

EBAY MISTAKE MAY COST US



so, weve paid for this ferris wheel. and because i started the transaction through MY account, and had to swap accounts to craigs to pay for it, its now pending an UNPAID purchase..
ive contacted the seller 2 times about it.
we have confirmation that the item should arrive next week sometime...yet, ebay is still hounding my email for the paymet i made the mistake on..

so, ive sent a dipute email to customer support on it.

trust me, thats hard to do...they require the header of the ebay email and the purchase header, we also included the header from the seller confirming he was thanking us for the purchase...

not a fun process to have to go through doing...

lessons learned.

the worst that can happen is id get a negative mark on my account for NO PAYMENT, which i would again dispute because that would be false, and THAT would have to be done by the seller, whom, as stated i have contacted 2 times about the issue...

kinda would suck, because i have a good record with ebay. it isnt a PERFECT record, but its ok.
so, i really wouldnt like to have any negative mark.

i often wish we didnt have to go through ebay for these things...but often its the best and sometimes the only place we can find the items were searching for.

MICHELLE

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

T-GAUGE PLAN IDEA- SPAGHETTI BOWL (Track Plan #9)

http://www.t-gauge.net/plan_9.htm
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i really like this track plan, would LOVE to have this done on a layout..even a coffee table one would be awesome.


MICHELLE

 Track Plans: 9. The Spaghetti Bowl 
 
Want to impress your friends and amaze your family? Build a glass-topped coffee table with this inside. Although it doesn't have to be a coffee table, that was the idea behind this plan, which features two independent loops that just happen to be identical (evident when you look at the parts plan below). You'll need deep pockets for this one—the trees alone will be a substantial investment!
PARTS REQUIRED
6 X R-003 60mm straight
12 X R-006 145mm 30º curve
4 X R-012 30mm straight
2 X R-022 60mm straight power feeder
26 X R-023 120mm straight
12 X R-024 157.5mm 15º curve radius
60 X R-025 157.5mm 30º curve radius
DIMENSIONS
45" X 24"
114cm X 61cm
Plan gridlines are on 6" centers
elevation in centimeters
NOTE: Unmarked straight parts are R-023, and unmarked curved parts are R-025.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Z-SCALE T-TRACK LAYOUT DIAGRAMS














http://www.t-trak.org/z-scale-1.html
http://www.t-trak.org/z-scale-2.html

i have asked a friend of mine in the train club to put together some base modules for the Z scale t-track division of the club. at this point, im thinking ill own some (if not all) until the club decides to make or purchase their own. i can do the scenic and do the module crafting (putting them together). i just want to have the ease and access, as well as different visuals, on hand for any shows the club might be involved in.

at current we have..myself, lyndle smith, and gerlad gardner in the Z scale division, and craig, if you want to add him...he has bought all my Z scale...he likes N-Scale better tho. CHEAPER! lol

MICHELLE

NOTE* NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED!

Monday, June 20, 2011

ORDERED A NEW (DIFFERENT But Same) FERRIS WHEEL IN N-SCALE



ok, after much thought and deliberation, we decided to buy another Ferris Wheel on ebay (local to the US in VA) for almost half the price of the original one...

if we are given the original, well just resell it for the cost we purchased it for. which, is still quite cheap for the kit itself, because its not out there for under 100.00 on most sites..(*NOTE I SAID : MOST). some are higher, some are lower...but over all, most have this same item for far higher than we got this from this dealer in austrailia.

so we bought this other one...for 32.00.
and the address has been changed on both PAYPAL AND EBAY!

OK. so after an adjustment with hubbys password (he has like 100 different ones, never know which password is for what account) its been ordered, and i even saw the confirmation email in his inbox online...
so, maybe well have a FERRIS WHEEEL soon, that i can work on and make look as awesome as my image in my head said it will be!

MICHELLE

PAPER PATTERNS FOR CIRCUS/ FAIR SCENE

in my ever ending quest for the right "look" for this CARNIVAL idea i have, i look through EBAY sometimes and i often see under the search "CIRCUS" these hand made fabric CIRCUS TENTS. in both: N-SCALE, and Z-SCALE sizes...

my CARNIVAL is in N-SCALE...

ive also done searches for patterns for this fabric set, and came across paper models of BOXES that have a CIRCUS theme...


it had a link on the site for the larger image which i also snagged, as well as the accompanying tower too..


how to do this (i havnt done it yet, but ill have too)

make the paper model 1st, make sure you keep a copy on hard stock of the original patterns...

if its too large, or seems out of speck, you can downsize the model until you get the size your looking for...

i figured paper models are about as good as any real pattern for this..
all i need is neon colored swatches, as well as alot of black base, and some lights to make it all seem very carnival like...

MICHELLE