5 Minute Weathering Technique Using a highlighter and chalks

[Herc Driver]

If I'm gonna dream about flying layouts...I'll go back to what I used to fly on active-duty...the C-5B Galaxy. You could fit a lot of Nscale in that thing. About 121 feet by 19 feet of room...and that's just on the lower cargo floor. Don't forget the upper deck in the rear with seating for 77 and two galley areas plus two bathrooms. Take those seats out and you have a lot of floor space for another layout.

A stupid but true story...I called the Illinois Railroad when I got the C-5 assignment and asked them what weight in coal cars would roughly equal the max takeoff weight of the C-5B. After convincing the guy I was really being serious...he worked the math and said a fully loaded C-5B could takeoff with roughly the same weight as four fully loaded 50 ft coal cars. I don't know if that's accurate or not...but it makes for a good story.