The Pines and Prairies S Scale Workshop will be visiting the Minnesota
Heartland this
Thursday but after two weeks of solid Sedum soaking, such sillyness must cease.
Sedum
soaking is an activity best undertaken near the summer solstice after the Sedum
we
secured in the spring has had time to reach its optimum pre-soaking state.
Such fun as it
was, I have enough soaked and sprinkled Sedum to set in my scenes so I will
schedule
other activities. Surely you ask, have we not heard enough about Sedum? I will
tell you
that Sedum is a cost senseable solution when you need a significant forest
scene and
please do not call me Shirley.
Ah the great coupler debate of '08... Welcome to S Scale my friend, as the
discussion may
have proved there might be better answers but there is no wrong answer, all of
the
solutions suggested will work. For my part, I like to operate so the 802"s and
the SHS
couplers are my selection. I have adequate space between the cars to
uncouple, they are
reliable and if I really want to, I can pull 80 to 100 car trains without
coupler failure.
Would another coupler solution fail, I don't know and I guess it is an obscure
point as a
train that long is fun to watch for a few minutes but it really messes up the
layout and car
spots.
I was just through Target and "happened" to pass by the toy area an "happened"
to see BIG
TIME MUSCLE cars by Jada. I picked up a beautiful 69 Camaro that looks like
the TransAm
cars of the era and a tricked out '63 Vette that would look good in the A Sedan
class. The
Vette will go to Dave Hamilton our local PPSSW Vette king, the Comaro is about
six years
too new for the Minnesota Heartland Western division but it will look good on
the shelf.
This fall, I am going to do some selling and trading just to make space and to
get new
things to look at. When I go exploring through the shelves, it is like my
birthday, I find
wonderful things long forgotten. In some case it is WOW! I didn't know I had
that, in
others it is "What the heck was I ever going to do with this?"
Ken
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