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.
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!
Michael
The Breitenbach - Rosenheim Railroad V3
I designed the bridge abutments yesterday evening and had the laser cut the parts this morning. Now it starts to look like a bridge!
A little bit of paint...
Very nice Michael. What did you use to get the concrete finish on the abutments? It really has an authentic concrete look.
Joe
I cut out a piece of roadbed and installed the bridge:
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 would be interested in seeing your technique and I'm sure others would be interested too.
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
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
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:
Brand new bridge and already heavily rusted!
Made some progress with this bridge as well:
A coat of dark grey primer:
The first track of the mainline made it across the steel bridge:
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
Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.
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 .
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 .
I'm beginning to think I may want a laser cutter...
rrinker I'm beginning to think I may want a laser cutter... --Randy
You want one, believe me !
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:
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:
I've laid some more main line track:
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 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 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 added the screen wire to shape the mountain:
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:
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'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
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 !