Scenery - Structures
Scratchbuild Home Plans?
I'm in need of 20+ homes for part of my layout and I've found a few near perfect matches for some of the homes in my prototype area, but I'll need more. I'm not in the least afraid of scratch building many of them, but before I start drafting my own plans, I was wondering if anyone has already done the leg work?
Laboring on the Weekend
I've had that model railroading bug in me again lately so I put that motivation to good use and I'm rather happy with the amount of laboring I was able to get done on my railroad this Labor Day weekend. Let's take a look at what I've accomplished.
Scratch building?
I started scratch building structures for my old version of the Georgetown & Allen Mountain Railroad. I would measure a spot on the layout, determine building size and type, make a sketch or drawing with pencil and paper, cut out walls with a hobby knife, paint, glue in mostly Grandt Line windows and doors, glue it all together, weather it and place it on the layout. Here's a not so good picture that I found that gives an example of what I'm talking about:
RGS - Ophir Loop scenery construction photos
I've been busy building landforms for Ophir Loop, now that the photo backdrops in this area are complete. Have a look:
http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2013/09/ophir-scenery-work-continues.html
Black fiber fill source found
A few months ago there was quite a bit of discussion here about possible sources for black fiber fill, commonly used to create nice spindly brush and undergrowth. None of the sources mentioned panned out for me at the time, but today I found this material in the Halloween section at a local Michael's art supply store. It's packaged as "Halloween Hay", and is sold in the Seasonal area. Bags about the size of a football are $1.99 each. A little goes a long way, so the three bags I bought will likely be a lifetime supply.
Superior Cheese Company
Pictures of my current project (Labor Day Weekend) The first two are of the building as built using Walthers Modular Walls, Columns & Caps. The third is the building with the grey primer coat. The building was designed to fit into a very narrow location in Green Bay Industrial District on my HO scale Chicago & North Western RR. Its dimensions are 3 1/4" W x 14 1/2" L, and only 1 story high.
Richard - Superintendent CNW Peninsula Div.
Weekend photos from Adobe Pass
Adobe Pass Arizona Just south of Phoenix.
Test Fitting the site for Frito-Lay. Building still need to be finished painted etc. SucroCorp is next part of the Adobe Pass project. The final part will be Abode Cement a small cement receiving industry on the spur far to the left. The 3 cement hoppers are for Adobe Cement.
Looking South in Adobe Pass. SucroCorp on the right with Frito-Lay on the Left. All the HFCS tank cars for SucroCorp are on the main in the back of the photo.
LED lighting
Been thinking about adding lighting to the structures I am redoing. I like to add LEDs but I have no ideal where to start. I have looked on the net and got more confused. I did a search on here but found mostly Blogs about LEDs for locomotives.
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