To get rid of the flatness of the taskboard surface I carefully sprayed the bridge with stone structure spray paint:
Michael
The Breitenbach - Rosenheim Railroad V3
As I live in Florida and this is the rainy season the chances of being able to work outside in the afternoon are slim to none. That leaves me no choice but to take a few minutes off from work in the morning and do what I have to do: spray the new bridge with dark grey primer!
I added the outer layer with the engraved stone pattern. Tomorrow I will start to paint it and make it look good.
I had the laser running all morning to make the parts so all I had to do was a little assembly. This bridge existed on the last layout as well, this time it's mirrored though.
Here's the inner core, fully assembled:
I'm not in the mood to lay more track today. Because the mainline needs to cross the big river coming out of the station I decided to build the bridge. That gives me something different to do for a change.
This is the location where the bridge will go:
I laid most of the remaining track at the Georgetown passenger station today. It starts to look real good!
I spent the afternoon laying track at Georgetown:
I kept working at this area and installed a total of 18 turnouts today. Not too bad!
I have started to install turnouts at the east end of the Georgetown station:
I'm hoping there is ! No, all the track you're seeing came off my old N scale layout and there is a lot more still in that box.
I laid some more track at the Georgetown station today:
I installed a few more turnouts at the Georgetown passenger station and laid a few feet of track as well:
Not that the display on my laptop is calibrated (talk about business getting in the way - I have only been home on weekends for the past month and a half), but that looks just about a perfect match for the ballast color. Should do nicely, especially around switch points where the ballast is applied rather sparsely.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Randy,
I found the paint color. Here's a link: http://m.valsparpaint.com/color-detail.php?id=2208&g=1021
My wife really is the best! She surprised me with a dozen new freight cars for my birthday! She even wrapped every single one and it all looked so nice that I had to take a picture before unwrapping them:
And here are the cars, unwrapped:
As I'm not working today I can do some work on the layout. In the afternoon there will be a German model railroader and his family visiting so we'll have a lot of fun. A good way to celebrate your birthday!
rrinker SO, 2 days instead of 1? BTW, what brand/color is that paint you are using, it looks like it would be a good match to paint under the grey ballast I will be using. --Randy
SO, 2 days instead of 1?
BTW, what brand/color is that paint you are using, it looks like it would be a good match to paint under the grey ballast I will be using.
Business got in the way yesterday. Happens sometimes...
The paint is something Lowe's mixed for me, I can look tomorrow and see if there's a way to identify the color. Don't remember how I picked it, have been using it for the last 5 layouts or so.
And yes, it works very well under grey ballast!
I've laid enough track to connect the mainline to the Georgetown passenger station. Because of the many turnouts involved this will go a bit slower than normal.
Painted all the new roadbed:
I've glued down the branch line roadbed as well. I believe I've had a nice and productive model railroad weekend!
I glued down all the main line roadbed:
The back side of the peninsula and both loops are done as well:
Added the main line at the front of the peninsula:
I added risers to the so far unnamed branch line station:
It was raining yesterday afternoon and there's more rain coming today so I had no choice but to do all my cutting this morning. I started at 8:30 and at 11:00 I had all the plywood and all the supports cut. Now I will take my wife to Orlando for some shopping and food and start assembling all this when I'm back in the afternoon.
UES Nscaler michaelrose55 Before I can continue with the main line I have to get the branch line put in as long as it's easy to get to it. I'm impressed by your fast progress. How will you add scenery around the branch line? According to your plan the center of your peninsulas at the backdrop are about 3' away from both aisles. Andreas
michaelrose55 Before I can continue with the main line I have to get the branch line put in as long as it's easy to get to it.
Before I can continue with the main line I have to get the branch line put in as long as it's easy to get to it.
I'm impressed by your fast progress. How will you add scenery around the branch line? According to your plan the center of your peninsulas at the backdrop are about 3' away from both aisles.
Andreas
I've never had problems working on scenery at 3', I've done it before.
I'm impressed by your fast progress. How will you add scenery around the branch line? According to your plan the center of your peninsula at the backdrop is about 3' away from both aisles.