Eneroth’s Gallery

Ooh, ooh! She could cover the entire top surface of the cabinet with a sheet of steel (not stainless; most stainless, like my refrigerator and cook stove, has too much nickel in it to be magnetic), and before gluing it down, get it powder coated. OR, if she didn’t want to glue it down, she could have several sheets, one for the sea, one for the land, or . . .

I’ll stop now.

Just driving by a wind turbine farm :blush:

or like a magnetic whiteboard material.
or magnetic paint (like blackboards) + a thin white coat.

but if you don’t want to go magnetic, then yeah, a thin disc of cement. like a miniature base (warhammer & such)should stabilise it a bit.

Julia says she’s using metal shavings/powder that seems to be sufficient. I belong to an HO scale model railroad club and we use lead to achieve proper weight on rolling stock. Some of the guys have made plaster molds in which they cast molten lead to precise shapes to fit the cars. I’m thinking if whatever metal Julia uses isn’t sufficient, she might try lead.

Guys, guys, you don’t need to solve anything. Putting the lead shavings and iron powder for filling the gaps has already fixed it. I can poke and tilt the turbine quite a bit without it falling over. You can compare the 104 g metal ballast foundation to the older 36 g concrete ballast foundation that tips as soon as I take the the wire stripper off


birdstrike ? looks like a broken wing there :slight_smile:

Or balancing the blades??

We can call it a bird strike

I like trains

This is the Red Arrow, the train Churchill used to travel around Switzerland after WW2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Arrow_(Swiss_train)#Churchill_Pfeil

Wish I had that one but in Z scale it’s super rare :smiling_face_with_tear:

I have an HO scale Alco S2 with Boston & Maine markings on the shelf near me, but no track set up for it to run on. Of course what I wanted was New Haven line markings on it.

My dad had a New Haven F7 in H0. It’s a pity the F7 I have in Z scale don’t exactly match the ones I remember from my childhood, but I did dream about having the Santa Fe one in Lego

I get to see it every now and again in Zürich Hauptbahnhof. Last time (when I took those photos) I was able to go inside as they hadn’t started boarding their corporate event yet.

This is a steam driven cog locomotive at a local mountain where I paraglide:

So a mountain climber like the one on Mt. Washington?

that TGV is gorgeous, I used to take is as a wee kid, then then moved to the atlantic (blue) paint. blue is so banal, orange was bold. so is red.

Love the way it’s designed for the incline!

About 50 years ago I photographed the last steam locomotives in service with the Finnish railroads in their shed. It was their last year of service. I don’t know if any of these are still in existence.