Had a pretty nice day yesterday. Drove the Miata down I-35 to Ames, IA, then West on Hwy 30 to get a look at the Union Pacific Big Boy locomotive that was touring though.
I was about 30 miles out of Carroll, IA where the Big Boy was going to stop at 12:30 when I saw a handful of people parked at a roadside park near the tracks.
Continue reading →I setup a new blog for my model railroad posts and forgot to post about it here.
My model railroad is named The Blackwing and Western. Go checkout my new blog!
This is more a personal note to myself, but it might be useful if others could find this answer more easily.
The web UI for mailman 3 (postorius) does not correctly implement setting Max Message Size (or the mailman API doesn’t support setting it, I’m not sure which.) In any case, you can set the Max Message Size using the mailman CLI like so:
# mailman shell list@example.com
Welcome to the GNU Mailman shell
The variable ‘m’ is the list@example.com mailing list
>>> m.max_message_size=nnnn
>>> commit()
>>> quit()
According to the documentation max_message_size is in kilobytes (1024) so setting it to 1024 would be one megabyte.
You can display the current value of max_message_size by just typing m.max_message_size in the CLI.
I made the mistake of visiting Scale Model Supplies a few weeks ago. Scale Model Supplies is an old-style hobby shop in St. Paul. It’s been around for a long, long time and has tons of stock. Not just model railroad stock, but they do have a lot of model railroad stock. A lot.
I managed to get out for only about $40, but that’s mainly because I didn’t go down all the aisles with model railroad stuff in them. One of the items I picked up was a laser cut kit to build a freight house. It was produced by Northeastern Scale Models, but they appear to have gone out of business. No matter.
This post will be picture heavy. Because I took a lot of pictures. 🙂
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For my second laser kit I decided to go with something a bit larger. I bought a copy of GC Lasers Blucher Glue Works.
I bought it because it’s visually interesting, and it has an amusing name. If you are unaware of where the name comes from, you need to go watch Young Frankenstein. Interestingly enough, the word “Blucher” is not German for “glue” as is commonly thought. The horse whinny was just added because the producers thought it was funny.
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I’ve started building some laser cut buildings for my model railroad. I figured that I could get a head start buy assembling some buildings in the winter, before I can start building the actual layout itself.
Continue reading →The best way to paint models, rail road or other, is with an air brush. Second best is to “rattle can” it with cans of spray paint. Neither of these are recommended indoor activities without some method of venting the fumes.
So I built a small spray booth.
When I was a teen I was crazy about Model Railroading. I loved (and still do) steam engines and I started to build this huge layout in my bedroom.
Continue reading →My friend VK approached me about helping her build a working bass as a prop for going to conventions as Marceline the Vampire Queen from Adventure Time.
I had no idea what this was. 🙂 But I was game.
This weekend I put new front brake pads and rotors on the Miata. The old pads were pretty worn.
