HaroldA I needed two for a bridge that is a about 3 feet away from the edge of the layout. I built mine out of wood blocks and then printed off concrete colored paper on my printer. I wrapped the woodblocks in this paper and then used colored chalks to provide some weathering. Once they were installed and scenicked, they blended in and looked quite good.
I needed two for a bridge that is a about 3 feet away from the edge of the layout. I built mine out of wood blocks and then printed off concrete colored paper on my printer. I wrapped the woodblocks in this paper and then used colored chalks to provide some weathering. Once they were installed and scenicked, they blended in and looked quite good.
Harold a picture is worth a thousand words.
Lynn
Present Layout progress
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/11/p/290127/3372174.aspx#3372174
DamonWayne are you pre coloring your plaster mix, or painting them after they are out of the molds?
The colouring is done after the casting has been cleaned-up and sized to fit its site. I don't recall for certain, but I believe I used thinned PollyScale paint applied as a wash - not likely an out-of-the-bottle colour, but something mixed to what I thought looked right.
Wayne
wickman HaroldA I needed two for a bridge that is a about 3 feet away from the edge of the layout. I built mine out of wood blocks and then printed off concrete colored paper on my printer. I wrapped the woodblocks in this paper and then used colored chalks to provide some weathering. Once they were installed and scenicked, they blended in and looked quite good. Harold a picture is worth a thousand words.
I know I know.....I keep a camera and tripod down there all the time since I like to track progress. Right now this particular area is involved in a facelift so maybe after it's done......
There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....
where in ontario are you buying from???
Wow, another thread from the past, with lots of photos in my own posts missing. I'll see if I can locate the proper ones and restore them.
There were, not too many years ago, three plastic suppliers in Hamilton, Ontario, but, as far as I'm aware, there's only one left now. That's P&A Plastics, 150 Main St. E. (the old Murphy Bros. building, if you're familiar with the city).
If you're not near Hamilton, simply type "plastic suppliers in Ontario" into the google search thingy, and you'll get lots of options, hopefully something near to your location. The prices, naturally, have increased since the time this thread was first active.
EDIT: Aha! It appears that the photobucket site is down at the moment, so the pictures on page one of this thread should re-appear when that situation ends.
If you want to see the photos (and a bit of a "how-to") you can see pretty well all of it HERE
doctorwayne Wow, another thread from the past, with lots of photos in my own posts missing. I'll see if I can locate the proper ones and restore them.
Rich
Alton Junction
Don't worry, Rich, the link is to photos only of bridge piers and the moulds used to create them.
Photobucket appears to still be awol, so I can't even post a picture of Bertram's here (although there should be some in Big Blue). If you'd like, I'll take a look and post a link to it.
I just tried again at 9pm, CST, and no-go.
Mike
My You Tube
mbinsewi I just tried again at 9pm, CST, and no-go. Mike
doctorwayne Don't worry, Rich, the link is to photos only of bridge piers and the moulds used to create them. Photobucket appears to still be awol, so I can't even post a picture of Bertram's here (although there should be some in Big Blue). If you'd like, I'll take a look and post a link to it. Wayne
doctorwayneIf your comment is in regard to the photos, they're back.
I was able to log into PB this morning. It's coming back slowly.
I gotta head to BB and check out Bertrams. By the way, I really like your form work. I worked on a few 1:1 scale abutments and piers.
Mike.
Thanks for your kind comment, Mike.
mbinsewi....I gotta head to BB and check out Bertrams.....
You may find it slim pickin's, Mike, as photobucket appears to be still having difficulties. I did a search on BB for Bertram's, and came up with attached photos in the following three threads:
Barney Secord flies the Grand Valley...
Selling Pennsylvania by the pound...
and Extra 727 East...
However, in all three threads, the photos don't match the accompanying text: in our last site "upgrade", the photos transferred along with everything else, but their order within the thread was reversed. I've been going through some of the longer threads, and re-doing the photo order as it should be. Searching for the links, above, alerted me to the situation with the three linked threads, and I'll attempt to rectify them later. The photos are all still viewable, though.
EDIT: The photos in the first two threads, mentioned above, have been re-done in the proper order, if anyone wishes to check them out.