Scenery - Structures
Welztalbahn: Emsingen station area and terraforming on German-themed layout
I finally started construction of the all-critical connection segment in the town of Emsingen on the Welztalbahn. This segment will feature the main station building and road-side infrastructure of Emsingen station and pull together the Emsingen city segment on the right and the maintenance facility segment on the left.
Here's the situation before I started with the partially completed buildings at their future locations.
Colorado Front Range - Scenery Video 5
Finally Static Grass is placed on the diorama- How do you get the grass to look like prairie grass. hope you enjoy the video.
Paiting all those small funny figures..
Hi! This weeks I´ve been painting a bunch of figures and same time made a video tutorial.
Cricut Shingles
Perhaps there is no harder problem for railway modellers than shingles. First of all, because we tend to have a bird's eye view, they are right up front and centre. Secondly, it takes a team of workers about a week to re-roof even a modest building. So, while you could install individual shingles, it will drive you cuckoo. Even if you do install individual shingles, you'll never get them as straight as the real ones.
Knowlton Bridge
Especially for Tom O'Connell, I was going through a bunch of old slides knowing that I had taken a picture of the one-lane Knowlton Bridge bridge as we had discussed here so long ago and did find it, apparently the only one I took:
Whats on your workbench - October 2016 edition
Time to start a new month - October 2016!
Decals for backdrops?
Hi all, I was thinking about the problems of adding photos to backdrops. If the whole thing including the sky is part of the photo it requires a very tall print and if one just prints the lower part with trees and structures and glues it onto a painted sky it requires a lot of trimming and blending to get a realistic look to the upper edge of the tree line, etc. So I'm wondering if a backdrop decal could be printed to be applied to a painted sky?
N Scale Layout
I got bored and decided to build a new N scale layout ......reusing most of what I kept over the years.
Benchwork is built by ripping a sheet of 1/2" Birch plywood into 3" wide strips....the sheet I started with was purchased from a local lumber yard that sells quality wood, not the crap that Home Depot or Lowes sells.
The strips are then cut to length for what is needed for a given part..........frames are 2' x 8' with a 1' x 2' tapered section added on 1 end.
Penn Lake 8: The Lehigh Branch (update 12/15/2018)
The Lehigh Branch is the primary switching center for the Bourbon River Sub. Major customers include a gravel quarry, cement mill, a brewery, publishing facility, and maybe a millwork plant. I plan on including some street running around the publisher and brewery.
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