don't look unless you enjoy rust

[FJ and G]

my oh my these rails are getting rusty after just several weeks! Spikes are ½ X 19 wire nails and they’re getting rusty too! All the rust is real, no faking with paint or powders. These are the real deal.



bought a cotton easter (background); these have red berries in the fall and flowers in spring; best shrub out there!



buds on the mugu pine are shooting up



scene along the multigauge mainline (32 and 45 mm)



end of line until construction resumes, rails still silvery, not yet rusted

[Anonymous]

F J AND G

 Are you running battery ???? i also like the green bush on the number three picture . Ben

[ttrigg]

I too enjoy the Cottoneasters, I have the "Red", "Green" and "Gray" variants.  I also love the "Cork Elms".  They develop "mature" looking trunks in about 4~5 years, they look as they had been in the GRR city park for fourty~sixty years (scale size years, that is.)

[FJ and G]

batteries yes, thanks Ben, the mugu isn't that scale a plant but it's one I'm enthralled with anyway

 

someone on 7/8 scale forum got me interested in cottoneasters with photos like this that he took of his plant

 

 

[vsmith]

OMG is that Lionel tinplate track?

Its rusty now, it will be non existant in a year.

Better start planning for some replacement track before its all gone, maybe aluminum?

[FJ and G]

yeah, that's what everyone says who hasn't tried it. I always get negative feedback on stuff I do that's radical (your feedback isn't negative against me personally, btw ).  I had some tubes out for 3 years and it's rusty as all get outs but not rusted thru. Besides I filled the tubes with galvanized steel braid and exterior caulking, so it'll last maybe 4 or 5 years. :-)

[Mr_Ash]

nice planning ahead I was just wondering if you filled them in with anything