My new project this last week has been this retaining put in for erosion control. It took the better part of two days to complete.
First measuring the area to see how long and how high the wall should be, then cutting the pieces to fit. Had to do that outside. Cutting plaster makes a lot of gypsum dust, not to mention a mess. Then setting the pieces and gluing them in place. After they were dry I put in the fill which is just finely sifted sand. Gave that a good soaking with alcohol followed by a 50/50 glue/water mix and topped with WS green blended turf.
You want to know why I change my mind for scenic ideas for a possible extension?
This thread!
At first, I wanted an industrial town… Then someone shows a nice single mainline through the middle of nowhere… Then someone shows an industrial complex, then the single mainline again, but with a town and spur…
And then this week, I saw a nice looking Spectrum 4-4-0 staring at me coming a cross a girder bridge in the countryside.
Wow, great work. I’m glad I don’t have to judge between them. Art, those fishermen better not slip on the wet rocks - it’s a long way down that waterfall below them. And from one Bruce that lives in MA to another, great work! Jon, what are you using for wires on your power lines? Jeff, is that a shorter casting from the same wall mold you made a while back?
I had to get another subway train. I told myself that if I ever saw the green R22’s on sale, I’d buy them. So, there they were at a “blowout” price at Trainworld. Walthers is out of them, so I suspect they’ve just cleared the inventory and won’t have them again. Anyway, Trainworld ships fast, so the trains were at my door the next day. I took a shot in the station before I put in the decoder:
The new cars are the green ones on the near track. The other track has my old R17 Redbirds.
That’s made from the same wall sections I cast last month. I just cut off one end and trimmed them to fit the terrian. Now all I have to do is figure out what to do with the other 27 pieces.
I myself am a huge fan of your work. Such detail and all the things one might find if he or she looked hard enough. Love the crane in the back ground as well as the other buildings.
now these are the rocks you casted whole retaining walls right? When I first started this hobby I made cake sheets of plaster and chipped every rock one by one to get thats effect. Now I cheat and carve foam lol I still have the old rock walls tho. Yours looks great.
Hey, hey, hey! Some great work already showing up here. About all I have to contribute is some more work on the caboose interior I am scratch building. I have added the capola lofts complete with an ice box on what will be the kitchen side and a storage cabinet on the other one, added the conductors desk, a table for the crew to have lunch, and kerosene lamps. I am still waiting on some detail parts to arrive from Walthers Out Of Stock to complete the kitchen and the toilet areas. Anyone out there have any suggestions on how to build a chemical stove for the kitchen out of scraps?
The day is over for the vast majority of members, so I will post my second image at the start of a new day. It will be my last this weekend. I thought I would provide a view from the opposite direction of the first.
Stayed up to late working on layout, but did get a small section finished and took a few shots to see what it looked like thur the camera. Got this one that looked good, so, whats a few more minutes to post it?!
A couple of weeks back I posted pictures of my model of the depot in Silver Plume, CO. I’m now working on the diorama it will be part of. The track plan, for the most part, reflects the current track arrangement at the actual site. I had to omit a third siding that sets “north” of the depot because of lack of space. This is a view from the “east”. The track is Microscale On30, as are the switches, and it is still awaiting ballast. The track in the area where the engine house will go is unfinished, because I haven’t located the model structure that will go there yet. I know only that I don’t want to model the modern concrete block engine house that currently exists at Silver Plume. I am looking for something more “John Allen-ish”.
