Glad you're keeping busy Bob. I tend to model railroad in spurts, and right now I just can't get myself going on anything. Maybe I need an open house to spur me to action.
Jim ________________________________ From: Bob Werre <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, June 4, 2012 12:05:50 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Modeling Skills & FNF Well, I did try using a cleaner on my trees. I actually used Pine-Sol. I had removed the trees and stuck them into some spare pink foam board. I divided the trees into ones that needed to be replaced and ones I wanted to keep and reinstall on the layout. In five minutes they were clean and I simply sprayed the cleaner from all directions and then washed them off with a light mist from the garden hose. I split my weekend fun between building a view block for the back yard and changing the scenery on the layout, so I was outdoors in the heat for an hour or two; then back in the train-room. I ended up adding to my painted background and then adding soil and static grass to selected areas. I was getting a bit exhausted by Sunday evening, so the Johnny Appleseed in me will have to wait till tonight to add back the trees. After that a good track-cleaning in the area should put things back in operating condition for my open house later in the week. Bob On 6/1/12 2:51 PM, Jim and Cheryl Martin wrote: >Hi Bob: > > >I haven't heard of using Lysol before, but before you go making your layout >smell like an Emergency Ward, why not try a spray of soapy water...the kind of >"wetted water" one puts down ahead of applying dilute glue to scenery? My >experience has been that the soapy water washes the dust down into the scenery >base. Once dry, the colors look brighter, and scenery bits that have been >working loose are reattached. > > >Jim Martin > > > >________________________________ > From: Bob Werre <[email protected]> > > >I've read where one railroader used a diluted Lysol cleaner to spray his >scenery and claimed it brightened things up. Have any of you fine folks used >anything else that could do the trick??--I've got some other areas that will >need some work in the future. > >Bob Werre > > > >
