Scenery - Structures
Any ideas about the best way to use a grey wash to tone down a painted backdrop?
Painting a backdrop is clearly not like painting a picture. For one thing it is 75 feet long and paint must be mixed in enough quantities to cover a large area. I'm finishing up my backdrop and as anticipated it is a brighter yellow-green than one would like for a backdrop. If it was a painting, I'd just make a slightly blueish grey wash and apply it gradually to the area I wanted to tone down. I'd let gravity keep it from running. Not possible with a backdrop. I'll need to spray it on with an airbrush or mist it so lightly that
Trees and more trees...
Several evenings of television netted me 9 tree top armatures. I spent Sunday giving them trunks and foliage and planted them on Monday. Just below the tracks I am getting ready to build my first town, but I figured I'd better give this hill some personality first so I'm not reaching over the miniature inhabitant's homes and shops...
Materials to use for modeling a large passenger concourse in HO
I'm planning on scratch-building a model of a passenger concourse in HO, and I'm wondering the what is the best material to use- styrene, wood, foam core or something else or a combination of those. The original concourse was concrete steel reinforced and the model will measure about 35" long and 6" wide. It was a tall single story (12') with a clerestory down the center . The tracks stub-ended at the concourse (concrete bumpers) and platforms with butterfly sheds extended out from the concourse between tracks.
Stock Number for Stryene Sheets with Corrugated Pattern
1) Please list the stock number(s) for Evergreen or Plastruct styrene Sheets with a corrugated pattern for HO scale
2). Does M. B. Klein carry this item?
Thanks for your help.
Frank
Continued a bit with the scenery on my 009 layout
Hello,
during the last few days I continued with the work on my narrrow gauge layout. I applied some static gras, and planted some seamoss trees. I also poured in the water in the little creek. I used my method of applying window color cristall clear contour paint. Usually these works quite well, but these time I think I have applied the layers to thick. Now the water looks a bit milky.
Concrete base for ADM
Over the years, and through many different layouts, I have tried to model street running track using various methods. Most of these used some sort of plaster and turned out with mixed results.
I have seen styrene used for roadways with good affect but was faced with an area 18 x 44 inches with two curved tracks running through.
Woodland Scenics Segemnts by Miles....
Recently I was catching up on all my TMTV segments, and it here was one by Miles, I Believe, where he was explaining Woodland Scenics Just Light system to someone, and he talked about getting some extra female plugs from Pololu to make our own Expansion adding our own lights already installed o our Layouts. I can’t remember the Part number he stated, nor can I remember the episode he was in. Thought I had added it to my favorites, but alas did not.
Can anyone refer me to the season and/episode that was?
Thanks Much,
New in Review: Typefaces and Fonts for Model Railroaders
Heritage Type Co. of Berlin, Germany, www.heritagetype.com, recently released a bundle of digital vintage-appearing type fonts that have many possibilities for use in creating scale structure signs, station signs, advertisements and more, appropriate for many past eras. This is a review of that product.
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