rrinker michaelrose55 Randy, You make it almost sound bad ! What you're doing isn't bad - it just makes the rest of us look bad! Fast work AND high quality. --Randy
michaelrose55 Randy, You make it almost sound bad !
Randy,
You make it almost sound bad !
What you're doing isn't bad - it just makes the rest of us look bad! Fast work AND high quality.
--Randy
Rich
Alton Junction
michaelrose55 Tomorrow there will be another wash with alcohol & india ink, then I will fill the mortar lines.
Michael:
Do you really need to fill the mortar lines? I think it looks great just the way it is. To me it suggests a structure that has been exposed to pollution for many years. I can hardly see the seams, and I can't tell how deep the mortar lines actually are so if they are too deep I guess you are obliged to fill them.
Great work by the way!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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The bridge has been painted four times. Tomorrow there will be another wash with alcohol & india ink, then I will fill the mortar lines.
Michael
The Breitenbach - Rosenheim Railroad V3
I continue to be amazed at the speed of progresss. Saturday afternoon - mock up bridge with cardstock. Sunday morning, actual bridge is done and assembled and ready for painting. While also taking photos and posting them to at least 2 different places. AND doing other stuff on the layout (well, while the laser is running a job I suppose you could either watch it, akin to watching paint dry, or go off and do something else, so at least that part makes sense).
Old Fat Robert Michael: I know you are busy but I wonder if you would mind just going over your method of creating those mountains? Just the bullet points would be fine . Thank you. Old Fat Robert
Michael: I know you are busy but I wonder if you would mind just going over your method of creating those mountains? Just the bullet points would be fine . Thank you.
Old Fat Robert
No problem!
I start with the ridgeline, I then glue on aluminum screen wire to create the basic shape, add a layer of plaster cloth, hot glue rock castings where I want rocks, fill everything in between with sculptamold. After that paints, washes and finally green stuff and trees.
Creating that ridgeline was so much fun that I just kept going...
The laser is done, the bridge has been assembled:
While my laser is busy engraving brick the patterns for the new bridge...
...I'm doing all kinds of odd jobs like finishing the backdrop:
...and working on the background mountains:
Started to work on the next bridge:
I can't use the old CELEX building again because the layout of Georgetown is basically mirrored from the old railroad but at least the part of the building that sits on top of the viaduct can be reused:
I installed a few tunnel portals and tunnel walls as well this evening:
I ran the laser most of the afternoon and cut a pile of standard roadbed:
I'm a happy modeler! The laser is back up and running !
Michael! OH you lazy man, you!!! Do you mean that you are actually admitting that you didn't accomplish 60,000 things in a single weekend?!? Oh my, you have burst my bubble! I thought you were Superman!!!
Seriously, I do think you should take a break from your usual frenetic pace once in a while. You deserve it! I get exhausted trying to keep up with your rate of progress!
Nice tunnel portals and liners by the way!
I haven't done much on the layout this weekend. Only a single tunnel portal has been placed:
The beginnings of more background mountains:
The replacement parts for my laser won't be delivered before Monday so I'm still looking for other jobs...
Today I gave a few tunnel portals and retaining walls a first wash:
Yesterday I had a visitor again: Jeff Shultz from Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine came to see the G&AM.
Update on the Laser:
The manufacturer has found that the power supply is bad. Because the laser tube might be bad as well I have ordered replacements for both which should be shipped today or tomorrow. With a little luck I might get them before the weekend.
I came in early this morning and put on some alcohol/india ink mix:
I've laid the last few missing pieces of track in this area today as well:
Today I've made 18 tunnel walls for the layout. I'm using 12" long strips of 5mm foamboard, covered with a thin layer of sculptamold to give the walls enough texture.
Thanks everybody for their opinion. I like the way the rock looks quite well and will probably go this route.
That looks pretty much exactly like some rock cuts I've driven through. The shape, the texture, the color variations - looks spot on to me. Around here there is a lot of slate and shale (lots of coal around here, and one nearby area isn't called "the slate belt" for nothing), which looks completely different, however there is also a solid formation through the area so there are highway and railroad cuts through harder types of rock that come out looking like this.
I thought that it looked just a bit dark. But, if you thought the previous try looked a bit too light, then you are there with the current try. Go for it.
Looks like rocks to me!
Mark P.
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As I need a lot of rocks for this big layout I have been thinking of different ways of rock coloring lately. One thing I didn't like the last time was the way my mountains looked, way to lightly colored. Therefore this time I want to make them look a bit darker.
Today I took a leftover rock casting and tried my new concept. This is how it looks:
So what does everybody think? Is this acceptable? Should I go even darker or is it too dark already?