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I’m new to all this. I have a 4x8 plywood base. I started by collecting Burlington trains because that is where I grew up. My layout at present is just two oval tracks inside each other. It’s boring. I have a variety of buildings that people gave me or I found at train meetings. I have no idea what to do next, or how to do it. Please keep in mind that I am old and not skilled, so easy suggestions, please.
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We are all old and unskilled. Keep at it.
Rich
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I bought the Burlington trains without any idea of various eras. My original idea was to model Burlington, Iowa, where I grew up. Burlington was built on three hills, and I don’t think I am capable to modeling that, so I’ll probably just model the flat area that the train went through between Burlington and Chicago. I guess that would be mostly fields and a small town…and I’d like to include the Mississippi but I have no idea how to make a river. I gather that You Tube is a good resource.
Check out this thread:
Rich
I live in Colchester iL now right where the CB&Q ran thru,now BNSF but still all the history downtown slong the tracks. You’re right its pretty much flat around here. You could build on 2" styrofoam and carve slight hills out of that.
That is a fine idea. Could you tell me what you use to carve styrofoam?
I use a drywall jabsaw/steak knife small seration/woodland scenics foam carver.
I checked and Amazon has all sorts of cutters. Thank you for the advice.
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try U.V resin it looks really good, but I’m not sure on how to make the foam.