Today I'll be able to rout my way through the mining area kindling for the roadbed. Some of the water will wick it's way into the ground cover but when it dries I add more ground cover where needed.
Working on the marshy areas of the lake early this morning. Added another layer of Realistic Water as well.
Roadbed work on new kindling blocks now.
Before I pour the water, I'll add some real Nova Scotia materials I collected and processed myself. Shale from Walton, reindeer lichen from Cheverie Mountain, and beach grass from Cheverie on the Mina's Basin.
Block 25 of the main oval will have a small lake.
Train runs on both tracks smoothly.
Created spur line roadbed near the turnout, painted the ground brown, added Walton shale to the roadbed.
Now that I am further from the turnout and scenery, I can start using my power router. The job just got a whole lot easier.
Walton shale and kindling sawdust ground cover applied to areas around the turnout.
Working the turnout bed early this morning. Ground will be brown wherever it shows. Shavings and sawdust saved to process into ground cover.
Heavy and wide antique chisel and a striking knife helping to remove larger sections of wood.
Not very practical to use my power router on a block that has scenery already so I'll use my miniature router plane.
BOK extension to the mines will look something like this. There is the main mining area and two loading spurs for two different ores.
First modification to the BOK Sub will be to rout out a bed for a turnout south of the lake. This will allow the locomotive to back into two mining Spurs.
And put it back together again.
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Now that the show is over, it's time to expand the BOK Sub. I'll show how it all fits into a vintage suitcase as I unpack it and set up outside.
The BOK Sub made it to the train show today. Had a great time.
The BOK Sub is a show piece so it gets it's own vintage hard-shell baggage piece.
Here is one loop of the HO test train. All doors are level and linked together with a bit of flexibility. The N gauge will be set up after the railroad show in Truro this weekend and the O gauge later this year when the new Lionel Legacy locomotives are released.
I have a video of the first test train on the displayout. It's still uploading to Youtube but Ill post before I call it a night.
Eventually the ropes will look like part of the display as they will support all of the lighting. Scenes will be projected onto the walls such as sunrises, sunsets, stars, moon, trees, storm, etc. I do all the videos and photos. There will also be audio recordings, wind, birds, industrial, city, etc. Acoustics was my profession as a scientist, and since I am retired, I can work on this project 24/7 if I really want to.
That looks so cool! Do the nylon cords ever get in your way or bug you, though?
I'm beginning to realize that Windows 10 and sound decoders have a lot in common. There are so many things you have to change in order to get them to work the way you want.
I have a new name for what I am building. I am calling it a 'displayout' as it will have elements of both a traditional model railroad layout (in three scales O, HO, and N) and a museum display. In this case the display topic will be the history of minerals, mines and quarries of Nova Scotia.
Tables (i.e., doors) held together with screw eyes and elastics from my beach lobster claw band collection.