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Enjoy,
Thom
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tealplanes wrote: I like that concept Thom. Just fit inside each other or are there screws to hold the two together? Magnets would also do the trick.
Oh, Loren! You and your silly magnets!
Seriously, that tunnel isn't going anywhere!
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That's silly rabbit. When I get rich, (IF), I'm going to buy some very fancy, (expensive), Velcro, pleated skirts to make my modules look nicer. That could be a few millennial. I think what Thom has done from where I sit is just a cylinder inside of another one. Well Thom?........give us the skinny.
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The hill and tunnel only need to be held in place once the modules are set up so I used 2 different sizes of brass tubing that fit one inside the other. There's no need to secure them since they won't be attached during transport. They don't even have to be on the modules once they're set up....you could make any scene and place it on a base with brass tubing in the right places to keep it from being moved too close to the tracks by little fingers during a show. I'm attempting to make the whole system as flexible as possible. If mountains and tunnels don't fit with what you want to display, you could exchange them with other scenes. I'm only trying to prevent the scenes from getting too close to the tracks and causing a derailment. Magnets in the module and a metal base for the scene would work but the scene would still be able to be moved around too much. You could also make the tubing in the module go all the way through the foam so you could run wiring for lighting or animating the scene.
Did I clear up the mystery ????
Thom
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