Video: A scenery base for the HO scale Eagle Mountain RR

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Video: A scenery base for the HO scale Eagle Mountain RR

Good segment Eric on a time tested scenery method that still works no matter the size or complexity of the layout. Good tips on the scenery steps and re-wetting the sculptamold before applying another coating. Thanks.

You didn’t show us how to do anything, just told us. “Don’t tell it, show it!”

Tim

i was disappointed. i can read that info anywhere. eric should have actually performed a sample of each step, giving all the pros and cons and any additional tips. the video is a good idea, just tweak it some. nevertheless, keep up the informative information.

What about the backdrop??? Did we just skip that part???

I agree with the last couple of comments. most of the videos for the project railroads are pretty decent but they do tend to skip over stuff and then one day they are done… like the Winston salem southbound… I still have no idea what it looks like. and these eagle mountain videos are very short and provide the least amount of info.

You know what you are doing, but you are not really showing us what you are doing. Guess it was a time constraint thing, but usually these videos last longer than two minutes.

I like the video but why you not show how you glue the strips of cardboard and apply the gauze is good but for new beginners nice to show what you do,I hope when you put the rock you show how you doit that …Ilike to see you know a picture is betther then a thousand words …this is very interesing…thank you. andré…

I think this concept for videos without showing what and how to do it, is not good. Every time I see this series I’m disapointed. Sorry.

Interesting. I see the rocks have color coming out of the molds. I’m looking forward to seeing how that is done.

I agree it would be far more useful if you actually demonstrated what you are doing rather then just talking about it. I guess for that sort of thing, you would have to go to MRV-

I agree with the others. You built the layout completely might as well document it thoroughly by video.

I liked your old way of doing project railroads better where there would be dedicated articles in the first 4 or 5 issues of the magazine each year. I don’t like how you’ve replace Cody’s normal section with a short project railroad article. I already thought that restricting Cody to four pages each month was a crime, but replacing his section all together? That’s almost unacceptable. Please do next year’s project railroad the old way and give Cody a few extra pages. I know this is the Video Plus site and not the actual magazine site, but the two seem very much connected.

There have been some references to SP 4449 working on the Eagle Mountain line in the movie TOUGH GUYS. The September 1986 issue of Railfan & Railroad has an article about filming that movie which may help anyone building this layout. By the by a very fine series thus far.