I am getting ready to rebuild my layout and plan on using the 2 degree Woodland Scenic Riser set; are there any helpful tips when using them or problems to look out for? Bottom line what is the overall opinion of the product? Thanks for the help in advance.
I used 4% risers ten years ago. They may be glued with white, yellow or conctruction glue. Do not use contact cement, as it eats foam.
Attach your cork to the risers the same way, and then caulk down the track. Caulk would probably be better at each step.
One 24 inch long riser goes up 1/2 inch, therefore being slightly steeper than 2 percent.
The only draw back I found was the spaces in the product to make it flexable. Perhaps filling with something like splacking compund before adding cork would be wiser than I was.
Dave
I used the 2% risers on my layout. You can use plaster cloth to cover the flex gaps. Here's a blog post I wrote about installing them:
http://www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com/2014/01/finished-installing-risers-and-inclines.html
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
I used the risers and found them to be of great help. I attached them with a hot glue gun. And I used plaster closth around them - but I do have some of the holes that should be filled before I finish the scenery.
Sure beats the old way of doing things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I used the 2% risers in several places and they work well. Glued them to the foamboard and the roadbed right on top with WS Scenic Glue. I was also not sure about the spaces, I filled some of them in with lightweight spackle by Dap. The rest of them will be contoured and covered with their new Shaper Sheets (tm). Highly recommended.
Mine doesn't move.......it's at the station!!!
ho modern modeler,
Have you used the Shaper Sheets yet? If so, what do you have to say about them. Are they relatively easy to shape? Does one then put plaster cloth directly over them or go directly to the "painting" on plaster?
Remember at the end of the riser you will liekly go from incline to level so allow a car length or two for the easement (sand down the top of the last riser). Don't end the riser at a turnout.
Terry
Sorry, I haven't been to the LHS since they came out. I saw them at I-Hobby Expo last fall in a display and they looked like a solution to one of my scenic dilemna's that I've left for future consideration. About 5 feet 1-1/2 inches high of raised track on risers, mostly level with an approach from a bridge at each end, edge of town on 1 side, straight down a wall of cribbage on the other.
Thanks for your response. The Shaper Sheet looks like it may solve my problem, too. I need to put in terrain for a small gorge crossed by a trestle. But I already glued the trestle in and am finding it hard to do the cardboard strip lattice around and behind the trestle.
Has anyone out there tried the Shaper Sheets yet? If so, please let us know if they really are as good as they seem from the ads and videos.