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This is what I’m currently doing in SketchUp (and making extensions for)
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coolio! a castle boat! much nicer than some house boats for sure! 
Added the church to the model railroad. Attached by magnets to get better access to the tracks.
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The detachable parts allow for tunnel track maintenance and help the occasional derailed train. It also allows to work on that part away on your desk and not bend over the whole layout to reach it.
But why attach the parts with magnets? Why not just gravity? Well, I then you can’t do this?
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It’s fun to watch a genius at work!
Modeling the signage for my factory. Since I have trains ranging well over 100 years I also want matching signs, all powered by the magic of magnets 
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Long time no post
Here’s the update on the factory project 
More signs are to come, like a brewery and a magnet manufacturer. All these signs are attached by magnets to be easily interchangeable depending on what trains I run for the day, and I of course can’t do that if I don’t have a stable source of magnets!
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The signs are designed in SketchUp, laser cut and assembled by hand. For the “floating” letters I kept the negative and used as a jig to assure correct placement. I also cut out a frame to mount the letters on and used the corresponding negative part to align the two.
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Simply stunning 
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Magnets are also used in the church. The traditional Central Europe dome can be swapped out for a more typical northern European spire. Or a pumpkin for Halloween 
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An increasing number of people struggle reading analog clocks. That’s why my church also support the digital format. It’s important for the church to keep up with changes of society!
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More factory signage!
The local brewery of Neusvenstein and the magnet manufacturer behind these signs.
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Haven’t posted any images of the SketchUp model in a while so here it is. While I do all modeling on the computer now, I love viewing them on my phone or iPad for reference while building. May sound like sales talk but Trimble Connect is really nice for this 
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I miss the tradition of writing the year something was built.
Tried some different kerfs on a single larger connected piece that’s also easier to handle.
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I see you like Roman numerals. 
But I’m not sure how 9:49 will fit in your digital display! 
It would be great if you could demo this at Basecamp. Id love to see it done in person
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Making a covered wooden bridge for my model railroad. Based on the one in the November issue of Eisenbahnmagazin 1997
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Almost a pity to attach the roof. But you can still see the framing when looking in from the end. Also the roof is needed for the model railroad as a whole. It would look odd with just one structure lacking the roof, especially when it’s a relatively minor structure and not the train shed at the main station as they did on the Hamburg section of Miniature Wunderland
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Basing the bridge (and much of the model railroad) on this Swiss one in Eisenbahnmagazin‘s November issue of 1997. As a kid this was my absolute dream layout . I spent so much time looking at it that dad took a copy of the magazine at work for me so he could have his magazine back 
. Sadly the original magazine was lost when we cleaned out his house but I kept the copy and now have it on my fridge.
Getting this paper copy as a kid was also the first time I saw an A3 paper. That alone was impressive! We only had A4 at home
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Just saw this topic; Wow very neat and stunning.
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