Now for something a little more tasty.
How about a mixture of ground weeties and corn flakes for ballast, spaghetti for power poles and logs, rice and rice bubbles for water-warn boulders, flour for snow, Gravox for a dirt road, jelly (jello) for water, and a cat to control the rodents?
Ron from down under.
I see it must be 5 o’clock somewhere. [B][B][B]
Gravox?
CG
Actually uncooked spaghetti has been used for pipe loads and flour as snow for winter photography.
I’ve long forgotten the technique for strengthening the spaghetti.
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That’s my thoughts on cats and train layouts. (With apologies to Lion.)
Wayne
A friend of mine had an entire mountain forest on his layout made of actual weed twigs. It was very impressive looking.
Then one day he noticed his forest suddenly looked rather logged-out. And then he noticed the tell tale signs of the mouse digestive process all over his layout … He had no cat but his two big dogs seemed uninterested in coming down to the layout room. He set traps and killed dozens upon dozens of mice.
Dave Nelson
I recall one article in the old-school RMC a number of years ago, where the author created building demolition debris using uncooked lasanga noodles, smashed into small pieces, for a building demolition diorama. I believe he painted the pieces and gave them an protecctive overspray to prevent any insect infestation. I’m fairly sure it wasn’t an April’s fool article, as the results did look pretty decent.
To make it sweeter use powdered sugar for snow. Where’s the chocolate?
Have fun,
Richard
Light chocolate would make good cow pies for cattle cars and stock yards.[xx(]
I’ve heard some slot-car racers spread cocoa on their tracks to act as dirt in rally races. Can’t imagine that’s very good for the mechanisms.
Pasta comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, some look like gears, and other shapes, and the alphabet noodles can be used for signage.