Here's the latest project to be installed on the Washington Northern. Ocean Harvest Seafoods got it's old billboard style signage on the rooftop. The sign was scratchbuilt using dimensional styrene, parts from the scrapbox, and some menu board letters purchased on Ebay. I attempted to weather the sign to represent it as having been in place for decades. Typically, these types of signs would have had illumnated letters, but I couldn't come up with a feasible way of accomplishing that. Curious if anybody has any ideas of how that might have been possible?

 I want to make some backdrop buildings by gluing photos of buildings to foam board, I have a few photos of buildings that I've taken squared to the building, but I wondered if there is a collection of high resolution photos somewhere that can be used to this.

Thanks,

I created the bridge piers by cutting 7/16 OSB to size and then covering it with sheetrock "mud". Then after drying, I carefully shape it with a knife and sandpaper. Coloring is washes of paints and india ink.

This is my Skagg's Hole Bridge, first ever scratchbuild project, on my Virginia Southern layout. The VS is the merger of the Clinchfield and Interstate, set in the mid 70's. Layout is a 27x32 HO triple decker.

Enjoy!

Brett Whelan is an Australian building an American prototype layout in O-scale. His structures are some of the best I've seen.

www.proto48.org/p48_photos_whelan_01.htm