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Title: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: Mobilgas on January 19, 2020, 12:50:40 PM
I'm having trouble building a train layout with a valance /shadow Box...... with good support and will be strong and be portable???  Any ideas ;D ...........I want to build this as my home layout in 8 foot sections?? and take to some train shows.
Title: Re: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: Mobilgas on January 21, 2020, 12:59:49 PM
Found what I was looking for ;D........... Going to use Alum framing and plastic connectors just like they did on the O scale Dolly Varden Mine layout that was built years ago.
Title: Re: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: finescalerr on January 22, 2020, 12:02:57 AM
I published a long article about that layout. Let me know if it would be of any use for you. -- Russ
Title: Re: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: Mobilgas on January 23, 2020, 05:12:42 PM
Russ,  what year and month was it?  Craig
Title: Re: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: finescalerr on January 24, 2020, 01:34:48 AM
It was in the 2011 Logging, Mining & Industrial Annual, nominally April 2011, Craig. -- Russ
Title: Re: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: Mobilgas on January 24, 2020, 08:08:13 AM
Russ,  Thanks.... I have all the mag's  total 37  just looked through the 2011 this morning nice article; D..... I'm waiting for the backdrop height measurement they used.  I want to get my order in for what I need for the alum framing and stuff.  I will not copy what they did I'm going to do my own thing. I have been a arm chair modeler for way to long if I don't do SOMETHING SOON ill sell all my stash.... E-bay here I come :o  I cut up all my Gazette's up but yours missed my X-acto knife  ???
Title: Re: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: TRAINS1941 on January 24, 2020, 08:55:21 AM
Quote from: finescalerr on January 24, 2020, 01:34:48 AM
It was in the 2011 Logging, Mining & Industrial Annual, nominally April 2011, Craig. -- Russ

Yes I remember that it was when you were still publishing!!!!

Good thing you got out when you did nobody buys books or magazines anymore!!  :o

Jerry
Title: Re: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: finescalerr on January 24, 2020, 11:43:58 AM
Pretty much everything I grew up with and liked is fading away or has disappeared. -- Russ
Title: Re: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: Design-HSB on January 24, 2020, 12:08:50 PM
This is due to the course of things and the time in which we live.
For example, I once learned a profession that no longer exists today.
Title: Re: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: shropshire lad on January 25, 2020, 12:26:33 AM
Quote from: Design-HSB on January 24, 2020, 12:08:50 PM
This is due to the course of things and the time in which we live.
For example, I once learned a profession that no longer exists today.

Saggar maker's bottom knocker ?! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f5jYFzUBRHw
Title: Re: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: TRAINS1941 on January 25, 2020, 10:27:48 AM
Quote from: shropshire lad on January 25, 2020, 12:26:33 AM
Quote from: Design-HSB on January 24, 2020, 12:08:50 PM
This is due to the course of things and the time in which we live.
For example, I once learned a profession that no longer exists today.

Saggar maker's bottom knocker ?! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f5jYFzUBRHw

Good way to tenderize steak!!

Jerry
Title: Re: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: finescalerr on January 25, 2020, 11:55:36 AM
That looks like the method I used to print my books. -- Russ
Title: Re: Shadow Box design Layout build??
Post by: Hydrostat on January 25, 2020, 02:11:29 PM
Quote from: finescalerr on January 25, 2020, 11:55:36 AM
That looks like the method I used to print my books. -- Russ

No wonder that you afterwards had some disgruntlement with U.S. mail ...