I took a break from paper mill work this weekend to finish an old kitbash I started 20 some years ago. I used 2 Red Wing Milling kits to create a 23 inch long building designed to sit against the backdrop on a layout. I just never had one with the space to use this stinker until the Idaho Belt came along.

I've been making my version of Scuptimold with a recipe I found online. 

1/2 cup White Flour

3/4 cup Elmer's Glueall (PVA glue)

2 tablespoons linseed oil

1 cup pre-mixed topping compound

1 roll tp

For those interested I make a little iPhone video for K&G's :  https://youtu.be/c9AVjcOrcVQ

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Our club is planning on building a model of Canadian Pacific's SS Minto paddle wheeler. The boat had a fine mesh screen around the upper deck to keep stuff from going overboard. Does any one have a suggestion for modeling this material. See the photo.

I don't have the specific prototype bridges chosen yet.  Much will depend on the what the prototypes did from the late 1800s to early 1910's for bridge construction in the Northeast.  I am protofreelancing, and much of the backstory I have created has my railroad acquire certain right of ways in eastern PA instead of the B&LE, Erie, and Pennsy.  So I am looking at many of their types of bridges, and will extrapolate my own.  What I wish I had in all these books on modeling Bridges is an actual book on prototype bridges in the sense did each railroad have a pa