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Rehab My Railroad: Episode 14
Drew, Broncos Superbowl, with Mark Sanchez, Good Luck with another one
Chuck, ages, 60s-Chuck, 50s-David, 40s-Kent, 30s-Drew/Jenny/Ben/Cody
Cody, did you put a dullcote or coating on the manhole covers and grates once applied?
Another great show
Rehab My Railroad Crew, here are my age guesses
Cody, Ben & Drew are in their 30’s
Kent is in his 40’s
David, the birthday boy is in his 50’s
and Sorry Chuck, but I guess your age is 65.
And it’s not polite to ask a lady her age, but Jenny can’t be a day over 21.
Another great episode and looking forward to the next episode of Rehab My Railroad.
Thanks so much guys! Great video as always! Can’t wait to get the hat!
“I see you’re speaking in Prose, Drew.” Best. Line. Ever.
A nice Rehab episode – and a nice long one. I knew there’d be future problems with the scene when David Popp suggested trying to salvage those “bad plaster” plaster castings. The future came even earlier than I figured! Once you know the plaster has gone bad just give up on it and toss the castings or you’ll regret it – maybe not within an hour like here, but soon.
Good tips from Cody on cleanly cutting foam board; I always envied the clean neat cuts I see on architectural mockups using foam board and Cody gets that same look. Even using fresh blades I was over-eager and tried to make the first cut do it all. Now I know better.
Another reason not to use fine point Sharpies to create tar lines on a road – I don’t know what the interaction is between DullCote and Sharpies but it is ugly and messy and ruined my careful work.
Okay, you all danced around the issue of bad plaster for the rock castings but what really happened? Was the plaster over hydrated or had it been hydrated from setting around a long time in the package? What is the recommendation to prevent a recurrence?
Great episode guys and the old plaster was a good lesson for modelers who store materials in basements, dampness is a killer. Also, the street cracks in concrete tend to cluster around the edges unless the slab fails and cracks across the roadway, wouldn’t hurt to scribe in expansion joints, they are black as well and sewer manholes/covers are normally in the middle of the street as Cody noted, but they wouldn’t mold themselves into the cracks. Thanks.
Love the sewers and storm drains but will they peel up when humidity and or there are temperature changes? How can that be avoided?
Drew at the beginning of this episode messed up. He says"Episode 6" I think he meant " Part 6 Episode 14". But no bloopers at the end. Are we just being easy on Drew? LOL
Back to the bad plaster–I have stored plaster in my basement for years without it “going bad.” If plaster draws moisture it reacts and hardens. I would say it is much more likely that it was simply mixed too wet–a good lesson to avoid adding too much water to plaster. It can be tempting to get greater working time out of a batch, but DON’T DO IT.
For James Moon: The plaster had been sitting in the basement open for several years. Simple answer: the plaster was bad. It had nothing to do with the mixing of it. The basement received a new dehumidifier last year, but prior to that the basement was on the damp side due to the older dehumidifier.
This dampness probably contributed to the plaster going bad. Bottom line when it comes to plaster: use it or lose it.
Cody cut out the warehouse from the photo backdrop EXACTLY around the building - then repeated cutting it EXACTLY after it was glued to the foam core. Why not cut the warehouse a bit too big, and then you only have to cut exactly once, when it is on the foam board? Also, when you tape the corners, they would not have to have glue put under them later.
really enjoy these shows
@Carl Brannin - Actually it is Episode 6…of Season 2
For this series it would be nice to title them as 1.01 thru 1.09 for season 1 and 2.01 - 2.06 for what we have so far this season.
As far as punching out the round man hole covers. Try getting punches from an industrial hardware store. The ones used to punch out gasket covers in the field… I believe they cone up to sizes of around 1 1/2 inches or larger.
Did you have any help building your layout over those 5 years besides the Rehab My Railroad crew? Or did you build it all by yourself
How does Chuck keep his layout dust free with the open ceiling?
I hate to be nit-picky, but would it have been better to put the manhole cover details on before the striping was done? Manhole covers in the center of the road usually have the road stripes painted right over them. Other than that, the road looks great!
Regarding cutting circles for the manhole covers: You could use cork borers. They come in various sizes and are sharpened on the business end for cutting.