Scenery - Structures

Material Load Ideas: Harvesting Logs

Modeling logs is about as common of a subject as rocks or grass or trees.

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The Big Scenery Push...

Today I started the beginning of installing the scenery for the major portion of the layout, it’s taken quite a awhile to get back into the zone,

Working out the Lighting and Interior Details

I figured out how to do the lighting, for someone who knows nothing about this, thats quite an accomplishment. I also build some industrial shelves then raid ebay and the surplus parts for interior details.

Designing an Elevated Train Station

I recently acquired a dock piece from a local hobby shop for my 1/87th scale collection, and I realized that I could have some neat uses for it.  I’m planning on designing some wall pieces to fit around the outsides of it to look more like a building, and I plan on using it as a second or third floor loading/unloading dock or elevated railway station for a High Line that runs in a fictional city my railway serves.  Any advice or opinions?

Commission done

This is for a O scale operator,  I was commission to help produce Precast Concrete Pipes for a gondola load for his operating layout.

You can also see the Precast Concrete Pipes in both HO and N,  For fun I did a mock up of his idea (He will be suing real wood) and printed it out in N scale,  makes a rather nice load and gives me an idea of what it will look like in O scale. He just needs to light sand and paint the O scale ones do to the vector lines showing up in such a larger scale.  But one model 4 scales.

Some smaller 3D printed projects

One of the items I'm finding is if I don't design constantly with Fusion 360, I start to forget the odd "foundation" items, and have to spend time relearning stuff.  I don't like doing that, so I've decided that I have to keep something "on the burner" when it comes to 3D design and printing. 

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Putting Shingles on my Station

I have been spending a bit of time every few nights putting shingles on my station. I like the wood shingle effect an colours that suggest aged roofing. I am nearly complete this part of my structure, so how did I get to this point.

 

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curved rock cut

This rock cut uses the Woodland Scenics facet rock mold multiple times.   Although this might make a geologist cringe , changing orientations of the same mold conceals the repetition.

below a closeup of three uses of the facet mold before filling in gaps between the molds:

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Backdrops

Hello everyone. 

Something i've been putting off has been backdrops. An important feature of a model railrad. A friend of mine doesn't really like the photo backdrops as he says it takes away from the modelled portion of the layout. But as one of the backdrop providers says on their website, a backdrop is a model too. 

I'm proficient with Adobe Photoshop and with editing I can produce a nice backdrop with high quality images, if I have them. 

cutting window openings in basswood siding

Sure it has been discussed many times but couldn't find on search.  Really getting back into scratchbuilding after ten years away.  Inspired by Jason Jensen among others.  What is the best method for cuting window and door openings in scribed basswood siding? Appreciate your suggestions.


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