The stock market may not be offering huge returns on investment, but this One Evening Modeling project will.
This is the Easy Tunnel. A simple, portable tunnel project for the toy train guys. It’s also a great project to work on with little kids. The supply list for this build is short and sweet. Not to mention extremely low cost! Oh, and the build time is less than an hour.
Materials:
- Two Tunnel Portals (Lionel used in this example)
- 4 equal length dowel rods (length varies depending on builder)
- Brown paper grocery bag
- hot glue
- lichen
- dried weeds
Start by hot gluing the dowel rods at each corner of the tunnel portals. If using an MTH portal, leave just a little room so that the paper bag can be slid between the dowel rod and the tunnel portal’s edge. As you can see, theLionel portals include a space for this.
Cut the your brown paper bag to size. Start by cutting down one edge of the bag. When you get to the base of the bag, cut out the the bottom. You will be left with a large rectangular sheet of brown paper. Now crumble it up in your hands. Then, open it back to a rectangular sheet. No need to smooth out the crinkles, they will give the papers surface a rocky look.
Now the bag needs to be hot glued to the inside edge of the tunnel portals. Take care to tuck it in there so that it will have a nice finished look.
This could be the ending point for this easy project, but with a little more effort, you can really dress up the