It's been about a year since I've been around as I return from my hiatus building HO scale amusement park rides as a side biz of mine. I finally got time again to work on my long overdue project of the modified "Granite Gorge and Northern RR" depicted in one of Atlases track books. I'm at the point now that I left with last year in that I'm laying sidewalks down in my town that has a good portion of street-running. Does anyone have idea on how to cast or create curved sidewalks? I'm using "Small Town" straight sidewalk sections but I need curved sidewalks that will butt up with them for a few roads I'm putting in.
Also, I finally got my Drive-In movie theatre put in but need to create the speaker posts. The little light on top, I'd like to use fiber optics for this. Anyone have a good site for references and maybe a discount distributor or outlet where I can get supplies?
BTW, if anyone needs carnival ride models built for their layout, please visit my website for more info and e-mail me if interested. The site does get overwhelmed at times because of bandwidth so please be patient: http://www.geocities.com/hazmat9us/mypagecarnival.html
Many thanks and it's great to be back!!!
Sounds like from you guys that I can cast myself....great idea! I do have the lightweight hydrocal (lots of it) and I may try with that. Since I've got the sidewalks/roads penciled in it should be easy to build the forms and pour.
Thanks for the info and I'm hoping this year to actually post some pics since the RR is getting close for eyes to see as well as stick around here more often and try to work on the layout during the grueling Phoenix, Arizona summer.
Best Regards,
Hi! Are you the person that was doing the movie screen with the 5" LCD screen? (if so) How did it turn out?
How do you like those Small Town sidewalks? I was trying to decide between those and just using this whole thing from Walthers.http://www.wholesaletrains.com/Detail.asp?Scale=HO&Item=cntsst&ID=200445060
I'm probably one of many, but my screen was 9". I mentioned it many years ago as an idea and decided to go ahead with it. Last winter I purchased a 9" LCD screen around Christmas 2006 and finally got around to finishing up the lot with the exception of the speaker stands. I run a vcr/dvd combo underneath the layout and built a frame to cover the screen and hide the buttons. I added a playground, concesessions, a projector booth, even humped the lot so the cars point upward toward the screen. I looked at a 7" screen but it just looked too small. Based on Drive-In screens years ago, some where huge....the reason of going with the 9". To the rear of the drive-in lot is a single spur for parking empties and it's shrouded by brush/shrubs. The screen itself butts up against a hill range and looks pretty neat. Hope soon to have a few shots up of it. The screen I picked up for about 75.00 on sale at Walmart. It's a cheapy brand but works great! The entire drive-in probably cost less than 100.00 bucks so far. Last thing I need are the speaker stands with fiber optics to light them up. I saw a drive-in with an LCD screen at Walthers I believe for around 600.00 bucks or so....too expensive for me and I didn't think it looked that authentic.