Recently Douglas Meyer posted a detailed analysis of modelled brickwork. He pointed out that the size of bricks, the depth of "mortar" grooves and the finishing methods in common practice are highly variable. Some methods yield relatively realistic results, others less so.

http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/31940#comment-313289

I hate to throw stuff away :). I used fiber reinforced plastic board (FRP) for backdrops and its specialized adhesive goop. I have at least 3.5 gallons of the relatively expensive stuff left over (it wasn't available in smaller lots). I hate to throw it out for landfill. Has anyone ever used it to form scenery? I can imagine it easily spreading over foam or cloth scenic material to form a hard shell. It's non-toxic and has almost no odor. It dries quite fast in the thin coats used to apply FRP sheets.

This is my first blog and I am hoping it will work like a Work in Progress (WIP) type journal.

First of all this WIP has nothing to do (directly) with railway or trains . But it could be. That is, the working lift-span bridge could be easily used in a model railway layout. The scale is 1/72 which is not a model railway scale-gauge at all, but the 1/76 is close enough (OO scale).