Maybe this would be a nice presentation by Professor Otte, but afford Trains.com I cannot.
The LION has (as you may have guessed) a faster and cheaper method.
1) Go outside and find a rock.
2) Bring it in and put it on the railroad.
3) You can break the rock for different facets
4) You can flatten the rock on the bottom for a better fit or sculpt up to the rock with different materials.
5) Bird guano is free, so is moss and or worms.
Cat not included. ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good tips, Brother Lion. I have used local beach sand as ballast (they be but wee rocks!), and I had a palm-sized rock on my second layout for about six years, shown here:
makes it easier to make small outcrops
shane
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
As the wife and I plus the dog go walking, the wife will look at me and ask "what are you sticking in your pocket", I say "a rock", she justs looks at me and shakes her head. Some times the rocks are too big to fit in my pockets.
Great idea! I do that with some small rocks. Nothing wrong with copying mother nature.
On my last layout, I would pick rocks up by the Lake, or from the back yard, and break them with a hammer.
My wife used to laugh at me until I took her to the hobby shop and showed her what was involved in using manufactured rocks, molds and sculpting materials.
Not to mention that a real rock looks like...a real rock!