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Posted by wickman on Sunday, December 14, 2014 12:25 PM

Was up late last nite  and  pretty  much got  the trestle  complete. I'm  still undecided on whether I will add sway braces. Also attempted  to even pickup a nbw and needless  to  say my mobility skills and sight are nothing  what  they use to be. May  attempt to  cut the trestle into  the existing roadbed today  to at least  have that part done and  have the trestle removeable for  scene work.

 

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Posted by wickman on Monday, December 15, 2014 6:15 PM

Cut out the roadbed for a trial  fit and once the  mainline was lined up and fit nicely I started on  the bent pillars.

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Posted by "JaBear" on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 2:55 AM

That's one fine looking trestle bridge. Thumbs Up

Cheers, the Bear.

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Posted by wickman on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 1:30 PM

Thanks Bear

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Posted by wickman on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 1:30 PM

With the bent supports in place and bridge  roughly in place I 'm going to see  if I can tie  the ends of the bench  work into the scene. As you can see I also removed  the bottom diagonal braces, looked too goofy for me. Will add sway braces when  I get somemore wood.
Bridge sitting in place

I used  card stock  to give a rough in  for the hill over the bent supports. white glue and staples.

Bridge back in place for test fit. Just enough clearance under the bents to  add plaster cloth and  build up  a bit.

And now the fun begins to try to tie the benchwork into the scene, I also raised the bottom  base.

 

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Posted by wickman on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:04 PM

Is it me  or is this the way a crazy person figures things out? Tempted to get  some grocery  bags stuffed with  crumpled paper for support and  stuff them under the paper and  start putting down plaster cloth.

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Posted by wickman on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 7:45 PM

I did get  started with joining  up the areas  using cardboard strips and hot glue ( ouch a few times) I'm only concerned with the trestle being supported well which it is and the rest is just for looks. I'm still not sure how I will do the outside perimeter of the benchwork  but that will have to come eventually. I may have to do it the extra heavy duty way and build the ends of the trestle and lower base out to the existing benchwork, more wood but at least it would be even  if I decide to use the hardboard. 


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Posted by hon30critter on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 8:33 PM

Lynn:

The trestle looks really good!

This is the first time I have seen all the intricate steps involved in both building and installing a trestle. Very educating! Thanks.

Dave

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Posted by wickman on Tuesday, December 16, 2014 8:58 PM

Glad your seeing something new Dave. I wish I had seen  somethng like this before I started, real learning curve but it is fun. 

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Posted by wickman on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 8:28 PM

I got the waterfall area buttoned up pretty tight with a nice cardboard weave and started on some plaster cloth. I'll give the plaster cloth a skim of plaster when the entire area is complete.

 

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Posted by wickman on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 5:10 PM

Spent the last couple days moving forward on the trestle area. I  still have a very long way to  go. I layed down some ground goop for the trestle to get it seated right and saran wrapped the  bent leg footings, I sit it in place and built up where it showed a space and once it sit nice and rail was level inward I left it  in place  overnite then removed and  replace  then shook some ws dirt and ground foam on it then a shake of sifted dirt.
The rock castings will have to wait a few days before getting painted as there still holding water.

New hills added to  break the flatness.

Another mound and dirt road started

Bridge in place for the photo

 

 

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Posted by NP2626 on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 7:47 PM

Wow!  Lynn, how far along on this trestle were you when you started adking questions about how to build it?  You seem to be a very fast builder!  I think I took at least a month to build my trestle which was much smaller than yours.  Great Job!  Are those plaster rock castings, or something else?

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Posted by wickman on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 11:17 PM

NP2626

Wow!  Lynn, how far along on this trestle were you when you started adking questions about how to build it?  You seem to be a very fast builder!  I think I took at least a month to build my trestlen which was much smaller than yours.  Great Job!  Are those plaster rock castings, or something else?

 

Thanks Mark it only took  me a couple weeks from start to finish .  All  castings are fresh plaster cast.

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Posted by wickman on Saturday, December 27, 2014 1:08 PM

I mixed up a fresh batch of my ground goop  and I'm attempting to  get into  the mood of scenicing up the trestle area. 

No ground goop in  the next 2 shots  but more a  trial run with building up in layers. I also added some color to the rock work.

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Posted by wickman on Thursday, January 1, 2015 6:38 PM

Got a bit of time in on scenery. I reached as far as I could and will have to work from the other end.
Looks like I need to spend some  time making somemore ground foam and blended debri.


 

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Posted by wickman on Saturday, January 3, 2015 6:33 PM

Puttering along  with the scenery. I was hoping to pour the water but its just not practical having to get the next  area joined in first.

I also added retaining walls to the river banks  under the trestle.

This will be the next area to be joined up

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Posted by HO60s on Saturday, January 3, 2015 7:25 PM

Great work, wish I had your creative talent.

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Posted by wickman on Friday, January 9, 2015 5:08 AM

HO60s

Great work, wish I had your creative talent.

 

Thanks for the compliment.

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Posted by wickman on Friday, January 9, 2015 5:09 AM

I finally  got around to filling in the area  a  bit, there will be a road going up the hill and over a bridge. Not  sure  what I'm doing  with the lower area, its a bit too flat for my liking.

 

 

 

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Posted by hon30critter on Friday, January 9, 2015 8:42 PM

Lynn:

The trestle area scenery is outstanding!

Dave

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Posted by wickman on Friday, January 9, 2015 9:30 PM

hon30critter

Lynn:

The trestle area scenery is outstanding!

Dave

 

Thanks Dave

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Posted by wickman on Sunday, January 11, 2015 8:15 PM
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Posted by wickman on Sunday, January 18, 2015 8:51 AM

Did a bit more work into the corner to get the area filled in. I tried useing some new to me stuff which is called tuf coat for mold making and not really liking it as it doesn't seem to take the ws colors like the pop does. Just need to do the raods a bit more and come back with bushes and trees. I'll have to go back in a few days and try to color up the rocks a bit more. I also attempted to attach the industry spur to the turnout and found the turnout rail was way out of guage, damn loose rail, so changed out the turnout to another and all good except I need to redo the throw wire for the tortoise.








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Posted by wickman on Sunday, January 18, 2015 9:56 PM

One of the two layout rooms is pretty much done.  Just need to workout how to  trim  the tops down for the terrain.Sure makes a major impact on the layout and will make it much simpler to fill in from the  edge of layout  inward.







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Posted by wickman on Monday, January 19, 2015 12:37 PM

A  bit more done. I find  you really have  to figure things out with putting  this stuff  up, have to make sure there are no seams where there  is  any stress.I will need to add on to the bench work in  the near future so I can finish  off to the  wall. This  will be the turntable area.


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Posted by reklein on Monday, January 19, 2015 2:46 PM

Thats lookin really good Wickman,Looks like you have a pretty cool collection of buildings too. I'm also liking the way you have stayed motivated and are proceeding on this big project in a timely manner.  As for myself I keep getting distracted by other modeling projects suac as ships for the past year. Bill in Idaho

In Lewiston Idaho,where they filmed Breakheart pass.
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Posted by wickman on Monday, January 19, 2015 2:55 PM

reklein

Thats lookin really good Wickman,Looks like you have a pretty cool collection of buildings too. I'm also liking the way you have stayed motivated and are proceeding on this big project in a timely manner.  As for myself I keep getting distracted by other modeling projects suac as ships for the past year. Bill in Idaho

 

Thanks Bill.  If it  were spring/summer my wife  and I both ride old Harley's  and we would be out on the road and not playing in the layout  room  so on my days off I plow forward. I also have an old 63 Vespa in the  shop I've been restoring thats calling for attention.Big Smile

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Posted by wickman on Monday, January 19, 2015 5:55 PM

Last section installed until I do  the last section of benchwork.Now to decide on terrain height and trim down the fascia  where its  needed. Time to do a  cleanup and reorganize for doing some jig  saw cutting.




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Posted by wickman on Wednesday, February 4, 2015 4:26 PM

Did some work  to get the space between the sofit and rail  filled in  and found  that the plaster  cloth itself gave a pretty  good foundation to  start to build up the  terrain.  Been on holidays  in nice warm  Cuba so   here's  a bit of an update now with the process to  getting to the  plaster cloth base.

 

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