I just couldn't wait until tomorrow morning...
Michael
The Breitenbach - Rosenheim Railroad V3
It's all been cleaned. Turned out to be a lot easier than I thought. Now I have to get more plywood again...
I've laid all the track I can right now:
That means that I now have to clean up the area against the back wall of the room so that I can continue:
I finished laying track on the branch line as far as the roadbed goes right now and started laying track at the small main line station:
The curves inside the tunnel are 15" for the branch line and 20" for the main line. Visible curves are 32" or bigger for the branch line and 39" or bigger for the main line.
Michael:
What are the radii for the loops in the last picture?
Thanks,
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
I thought having a week off would allow me to get a lot done but my wife had other plans...
Anyway, I managed to lay track across the new bridge today:
Plenty of hot glue mounts the bridge:
Thanks for the tutorial Michael. The results look very convincing.
Joe
The final step: a wash with an alcohol/india ink mix:
While I was painting the bridge & abutments I cut out a piece of the roadbed where the bridge will go:
Third step: a thin, uneven coat of spackling (I use the DRYDEX brand):
This has to completely dry over night before the 4. and last step in the process.
Second step: a coat with diluted Woodland Scenics Top Coat Concrete (ST1454):
First step to making cardboard look like concrete:
I paint everything with a light grey acrylic paint thinned with water. It's supposed to be uneven and blotchy. Looks terrible but that's what I'm after:
ROBERT PETRICKBut I gotta ask and I'm not sure how to word it . . . are there a bunch of elves who come in at night helping you?
Nope, just me !
Hey Michael-
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Great work!
But I gotta ask and I'm not sure how to word it . . . are there a bunch of elves who come in at night helping you?
Robert
LINK to SNSR Blog
I need a bridge where the branch line crosses the main:
...so I made this:
This is obviously some kind of homage to John Allen who loved complicated bridges and I always wanted to something similar. This is by far not as magnificent as any of John's big bridges but it's the best I can do in the space I have.
I've been asked to demonstrate again how I make my cardboard bridge abutments look like concrete so I will show that process step by step.
hon30critterI love the mountains, but I have to ask. How are you going to get to that hidden track if you have a derailment in there?
There is enough room to get to the track from underneath. And I don't believe in derailments anyway !
Hi Michael:
I love the mountains, but I have to ask. How are you going to get to that hidden track if you have a derailment in there?
I know that derailments on straight track are rare, but that doesn't mean you couldn't have a derailment on the curves leading to the hidden track which might get dragged quite a way into the tunnel before things fall completely off the track. Murphy's Law.
I think I might have made the mountains so that they can be lifted out.
I still had a box of plaster cloth left over from the last G&AM. Took me 2 hours including a coffe break to cover up about 20' of mountain:
I added the screen wire to shape the mountain:
I started to think about mountains again so with a little hot glue and some leftover wood cut into small pieces I got started behind Gustavsburg:
I didn't feel like laying track today so I had to find something else to do: I added side walls to my hidden tunnel track so the trains can't fall down if an accident happens.
I kept laying track until I reached the next station on the mainline:
I then filled the siding with a train to see what will fit in there:
I've laid some more main line track:
Early this morning I gave the stone arch bridge a coat of thinned white glue to seal everything:
Now that the bridge has dried I cut out the roadbed and glued the bridge in place:
All three mainline tracks now run across the bridge and the guardrails have been installed as well:
The stone arch bridge has been dry brushed with several different greys and the mortar lines have been filled:
rrinker I'm beginning to think I may want a laser cutter... --Randy
You want one, believe me !
michaelrose55 rrinker Is the stone pattern in that stone bridge done with the laser cutter as well, or is that a layer of other material applied over the core? --Randy That's all done with the laser .
rrinker Is the stone pattern in that stone bridge done with the laser cutter as well, or is that a layer of other material applied over the core? --Randy
Is the stone pattern in that stone bridge done with the laser cutter as well, or is that a layer of other material applied over the core?
--Randy
That's all done with the laser .
I'm beginning to think I may want a laser cutter...
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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