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Post by chipset35 on Oct 14, 2023 19:24:16 GMT
This actually happened today, I tripped and knocked into the layout causing a large earthquake and some damage. All repaired. You will have to click on photo and then zoom in with your web browser to read it.
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Post by ptc on Oct 14, 2023 19:59:13 GMT
Clever, Vince.
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Post by runamuckchuck on Oct 14, 2023 20:51:39 GMT
Very creative!, and fun as well!
When I was losing at Monopoly I would shout Earthquake! and fold the board. The look on the other player's faces was priceless at least the first time.
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Post by Adam on Oct 14, 2023 21:13:58 GMT
So creative! You should print that out, frame it and put it on the wall in your train room!
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Post by Country Joe on Oct 14, 2023 21:18:24 GMT
So creative! You should print that out, frame it and put it on the wall in your train room! I agree, that should be framed and hung on your wall!
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Post by harborbelt70 on Oct 15, 2023 16:16:33 GMT
Really well done - the news not the quake. I would not like to deal with repairing any of that and trust that the damage is Photoshopped!
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Post by keithb on Oct 15, 2023 19:56:06 GMT
I love it!
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Post by chipset35 on Oct 16, 2023 13:23:01 GMT
Really well done - the news not the quake. I would not like to deal with repairing any of that and trust that the damage is Photoshopped! It was worse than I implied. What caused the who earthquake was my trying to fix a section of the subway track. I pulled out what looked like an errant piece of insulation sheet (Loews/Home Depot) that was actually holding a large portion of the base board which is also foam. What I did not know was that the entire far side of the square foam board was not glued down. So when I pulled the odd piece out that actually ran the length of the top square board and was lightly glued, it caused the who 1 foot(?) square piece to tilt up on the outside end. This raised the track causing an uncoupled subway car to roll, derail and drop to the floor 4 feet below (no damage). The tilt caused a chain reaction; hence the earthquake, where the next level up sagged and caused the top most level to sag. All the sag caused shifting and I soon had every small errant piece of foam falling. The PRR came to the rescue, in the form of two heavy GG-1s who's sheer weight pressed the tilted up board down onto the fresh glue I applied. Then came putting all the shifted unglued scenery etc. back in place or alignment. Lesson learned, beware of doing quick patch work on your layouts base board. Either replace the section correctly or not at all. Do it right with no mad scientist band aids.
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