Scenery - Structures
Building a wagon turntable from scratch using easy available materials
During the christmas holiday season I scratchbuilt a wagon turntable for my 009 gauge layout. These turntable will serve my future Whisky distillery on my Isle of Skye Railway Mk2. In these Youtube tutorial I will show you how to build the turntable with 1mm and 0.5mm styrene sheet, some rail offcuts, superglue and plastic cement. The turntable is not motorised or powerd, but could be turned by hand. During the filming I had some problems with the autofocus of my camera, and I had to find a good cameraposition for filming how to tutorials.
Zip texture problem
Hi- I am trying to apply Zip Texturing to my scenic base and am having a strange problem.
1. I am following the techniques described in the MRH Sept/Oct 2010 article by Joe Fugate. I am using the same materials and the same mixture formulations as described there.
2. My scenic base is the mixture of patching plaster, cement, and vermiculite described by Joe. It has completely dried and has been covered with two coats of flat latex paint which has completely dried. The surface is sealed.
Going Overboard on Lumber
Last weekend it was cold outside, -36c, so I decided to make a few wrapped bundles of lumber to scatter here and there on the layout. I used information from another modeler posted on his blog which required cutting pine to scale bundle size, printing some bundle wrapping and then cutting the paper to size to wrap around the wood. I only planned on doing a dozen bundles but it was so easy I made a lot more.
R. Hardwick COOP located in Hermosa, AZ
Working on what will be R. Hardwick COOP located in Hermosa, AZ
Log House
I scratch built a log house. I made it using some sticks, plaster, junk mail, tin foil and a few other odds and ends.
Foam Cutting Tool
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good "sturdy" foam cutter? I bought one from a hobby store, but after one or two cuts, the hot wire was noticeably bending and it almost felt like it would break.
Thanks,
Grampy
Scratch Built Warehouses
My prototype layout is based on the BNSF Industrial Lead in Seattle. I’ve been hard at work with many aspects of completing the layout, including scratch building 5 new buildings. I’m super excited to get 3 of them painted this weekend.
Old Race Cars In An Abonded Barn
I scratch built the building out of plaster, sticks, and junk mail. The vehicles are modified from old models that are more like toys.
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