Category: Grey Gardens West
Into the north woods
I have been having trouble finding the right materials and paint etc. to make the background hills on our train layout look realistic, along with…
Dog Doo Patrol
I have about a 20 pound dog, only one so this is manageble. I made a simple compost bin by making a big hole in…
Conceal my ineptitude!
As you see, the back third of the primary train layout here, will be mountains; tall mountains when I’m done. This is layered syrofoam panels,…
I’m getting railroaded…
Here’s something I learned. Acrylic white mixed with a color they call “coffee” equals a nice gray. Acrylic white mixed with India ink, equals a…
Night train?
I was looking at the sad progress on our train layout here. Eventually the mountains on the back third of the layout will tower over…
Wireless? I think not.
When you send a lot of letter-size envelopes as we do, a label printer is essential. I got this Dymo Labelwriter which is supposed to…
Barf Valley Mountain
I have been experimenting with the train layout, and it shows. The texture of this mountainside rockery is OK, but the paint came out looking…
HO SHIT Scale Railroading
Apparently, I forgot what a frustrating hobby this was, my last train set was about 25 years ago, and my first when I was about…
Wimpy mower does not cut it
We got this Ryobi battery operated mower in fall 2018, when we moved here. I just put it on Craig’s List at a huge loss….
I accidentally made something useful?
I decided to fire up my 3D printer, not sure if I have the settings right so I just printed some random file from the…
