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
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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The first track of the mainline made it across the steel bridge:
Michael
The Breitenbach - Rosenheim Railroad V3
A coat of dark grey primer:
Made some progress with this bridge as well:
Brand new bridge and already heavily rusted!
The Allen Mountain area needs many bridges and that really slows me down a bit. Every bridge has to be designed, parts lasered, bridge assembled and painted, bridge installed, before I can continue laying track in any meaningful way.
So here's the next one:
fender777This layout is so long I would need Binoculars to follow those little N gauge trains around.
To give you an idea, a freight train will take about one hour for a complete trip around the main line
Mark P.
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I would be interested in seeing your technique and I'm sure others would be interested too.
Joe
It's layers of different paints, spackle, and washes with alcohol/india ink. I can show it in detail if it's of interest, there's a bridge coming on the branch line that will have concrete abutments as well.
I cut out a piece of roadbed and installed the bridge:
Very nice Michael. What did you use to get the concrete finish on the abutments? It really has an authentic concrete look.
A little bit of paint...
I designed the bridge abutments yesterday evening and had the laser cut the parts this morning. Now it starts to look like a bridge!
Sir MadogI can now fully understand why you dumped your already very much advanced HO scale project.
Yeah, it looks like N scale is more my thing. Should have known better!
hon30critter Michael: You are sure getting your money's worth out of that laser cutter! Great work! Dave
Michael:
You are sure getting your money's worth out of that laser cutter! Great work!
Dave
I can only second Dave´s words! The viaduct and the bridges are great!
I can now fully understand why you dumped your already very much advanced HO scale project.
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
I've started to work on the next bridge for the mainline:
I have finished laying track at the branch line station:
I've laid track across the bridge and installed guardrails:
First train testing the bridge is my doodlebug:
I redid the bridge, trying to improve it a little bit. This morning I cut a gap in the roadbed and glued the bridge in place:
Started to work on a short bridge for the branch line today:
I started to lay track at the unnamed branch line station that sits on top of the Allen Mountain peninsula:
Today I added a few feet of branch line track:
The main line runs across the new bridge!
I took some pieces of leftover plywood and arranged them into a base for the river. Then I cut out a piece of roadbed and fit in the new bridge.
I've filled the mortar lines with a grey zip texture mix and later gave the whole bridge a first careful wash with a black alcohol/india ink mix.
I carefully dry brushed the bridge with some light gray paint to get some variety in the stone coloring and bring out more detail:
I dry brushed the bridge with some medium dark grey craft paint. Now the stones have a bit of a surface texture. I will follow up with lighter shades of grey and then fill the mortar lines with zip texture.