I have recently tried a couple of mold making compounds one worked but was expensive one was cheap and did not work well . Would any of you that have made molds for replication pass on your thoughts

DC Snr

Today was the local train show - and sadly it was the worst ever. Small, (it moved from the local high school to a small hotel), without many vendors (I wanted some terrain material, and nobody had any!), and the timing was bad - it was the same day as the Hookset show, located across state.

Clearly the timing meant a lot of venders that used to come to ours were, well, across state.

Here are some photos of the Washington Northern Port Andrews District's largest customer, Raven Pulp & Paper. Because of the limited space I've chosen to model more of the main mill structure than the woodchip yard. The main buildings in the back hide the two staging tracks and have been kitbashed out of several Walthers Kits and a lot of scratchbuilding. The mill itself has 3 sidings, one for the chemical unloading area, one for woodchips which will be spotted on one of the tracks running through the center of the mill complex to the "off layout" woodchip yard.

A few weeks ago our operating group had a tree making clinic at one fo the member's home.  We tried our hand at making many different sytles of trees using a number of methods.  I took a "shining" to the wire armature method.  This method uses florist wire (28 gauge) with twisting and forming the wire to make the armature.  Unfortunately, we didn't have any gesso to coat the bare wire armatures to continue the process so I couldn't create the finished result.