Scenery and structures
An English 1940-50s 'Corner Shop in card and paper
Hullo All,
Continuing the traditional English card and paper model theme, herewith some pictures of a 'corner shop' of a sort found in small towns, this particular syle in flint and brick found in both Norfolk. [eastern England, north of London] in the 1940-50s.
Sweetwater Scenery
Does anyone know if Sweetwater Scenery (mentioned in the Allagash videos) has a web site?
First structure / best structure
There is a thread about your oldest structure, but what structure did you build first? What structure do you consider your best?
I'll start First structure? I'm thinking it was either the HO Atlas Lumber yard or the HO Atlas Howard Johnson's. Both may still survive, they were on the father and son's layout my Dad still had the parts from last I knew.
Water
I went to a model train show yesterday here in Spokane, Washington and saw some layouts that used a product call Virotex. I like the results and decided I am going to use it for my lake and stream coming from the lake. My question is that I was told that this product had color tint added to it to help develop depth. I forgot to ask where one got the color tint, what brand and how much does one use. Anyone used this product and know what I am talking about?
One way to bevel a 45-degree angle in a wall section
Over the years, I have attempted to bevel kit wall sections at a 45-degree angle so that two adjoining wall sections come together, especially for material patterned with brick or stone. All with a notable lack of success.
For basswood or plastic, I don't think a powered planer/sander would be appropriate tear the basswood or melt the styrene. I'm sure there must be other ways than what I devised but I wasn't about to spend the money to buy a powered hobby sander for this project.
Trying to locate a particular boat model vendor.
There’s a boat model maker that I saw at Springfield in 2013 and 2012, and I’ve been wracking my brain trying to recall the name of the type of boat and/or the vendor. The boats are flat-bottom paddlewheelers that used to sail on inland waterways in Canada, and the vendor was very close to the big On30 Narragansett Bay Railroad and Navigation Company railroad in the Mallary Complex. Star Hobby and an Sn3 layout were also close by. Can anyone recall the boats? Thanks!
Dust free coal
My wife asked me to get some dog food from Petco today so I went to get it. Besides model railroading I'm interested in saltwater fish so I looked around a bit and accidently found something that might be used to model coal:
For $4.99 you get 5 pounds of black sand that looks pretty much like coal without the dust. Here's a picture after I filled it in a jar:
What's your oldest structure?
The recent thread:
http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/16938
regarding help in finding some old Revell structure kits has prompted me to start this one. What is the oldest structure kit on your pike?
Resin creep, Buidings not sitting in ground..Fusionfiber saves day :)
Small shelf module....
We do the resin water pour first using caulk as a dam for the pour.
While slightly sticky the reeds and water grasses, logs are placed into resin. Once dry the tinted fusionfiber is spread down to the waters edge.
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