Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Your layout needs to be cleaned up?
Make the road in town at an angle to the edge of the layout.
Put a backdrop down the center and make two different scenes, one on each side.
Make some of the terrain go below the track level. Don't make the terrain layers sitting on a table. Put the railroad THRU the terrain.
Make the stream follow along the curve, actually the reverse, run the stream in a sort a curved line and then put the railroad in that valley. It establishes a reason WHY the railroad curves there.
Use a more muted color instead of the John Deere green.
Dave H.
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
You are going to have to continue to build up the terrain all along the river bed, as yet unplaced, and then plug gaps with latex caulking. So, do what you can to keep layering foam because you need bank structure. Then, when you have the rudimentary river course, goop out gobs of acrylic latex caulk (it's dirt cheap), and spread it to make a first seal for anythin you intend to use for "water".
Then, what I would do would be to add a cover to the latex "tub" you have made to fashion a "clay/dirt" riverbed. I would use wood putty (sometimes in a tin, with a powder that is mixed with water), or you could try plaster of paris if you can work with it patiently while it wants to both run and set. Spread that to create a truly water tight vessel into which you will pour your "water" material. When it dries, it will be impermeable to your epoxy or Gloss Medium. Also, the dried putty takes paint very well since you will want to paint up the river bed to look deep in parts, muddy here, greenish there, and so on. If you hate the look, just paint over it all. Start with a layer of white acrylic paint if it will help.
Is that the sort of help you want?
Well as you cant see very well from the photo, but I am making a river. Would you have any tips on how to make a river. I have the woodland water stuff.
What kind of tips are you looking for?
What are you trying to do?
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Any tips for the ho railroad I am working on?