Letting both red mud and natural clay dry overnight for application to dried creek beds. After that, I'll add Woodland Scenics Realistic Water for a running creek. A creek will be added to the Badlands - there are real creeks there.
Have you considered baking the mud and clay to neutralize any 'ingredients' that might let off certain undersirable odors that are sometimes associated with trips to the sea side?
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
hon30critter Have you considered baking the mud and clay to neutralize any 'ingredients' that might let off certain undersirable odors that are sometimes associated with trips to the sea side? Dave
I have used this mud and clay for several years. Both are odourless. The shells and sea grass on the other hand, need treatment with isopropyl and boiling water. I have done this several times in the past as well. Another reason that I collect after a good rainfall is for a fresh water wash. Thanks Dave.
Mud and clay dried solid. Will sculpt a creek bed in the Badlands today.
First in the pot with boiling water and isopropyl alcohol are the shells and cones.
Next on the menu, the large-diameter grass.
Last step for the shells, cones and large-diameter grass is boiling water with glycerin.
Same steps with the small-diameter grass with one change. I have added a green dye to the boiling water and glycerin to give a touch of green to the final product.
Dinner is served. On the right shells, cones and brown grass. On the left green grass. In the bottle light green grass that was run through a blender this summer past. Everything needs to dry before using.
Left butte mirror is cut and glued in place.
The sources of this creek include runoff from the butte and a pond. The creek runs off the back of the display base toward the Red Deer River.
Doing a bit of sculpting on top of the butte and around the hoodoo with red mud (sandstone when dry).
Cheverie red mud dried nicely into sandstone creek banks. Added Realistic Water to the creek and it's two feeders. Will begin work on the old abandonned coal tipple today.
All of my structures are made from scratch using spruce driftwood from the cobble beaches of West Jeddore on the Atlantic Ocean Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. I collect the wood after a good fresh water rainfall and have never had a problem working with it. In case there is residue salt content, I don't use this wood for rail ties or any other electrical applications. This photo was taken in April 2017 during one of my driftwood gathering hikes.
I have lots of dry driftwood logs in stock. Will use a few to cut timbers for the coal tipple.
One log hand sawn into large planks should be more than enough.
Lots of timber - 129 pieces from a single log. Use the rail ties for scale.
Do you have a name?
Will you share that name?
Why do you continuously repeat that you invented sonar (or something)? It implies that you don't think anyone read it the first time. Or the second. Or the third. Or the fourth.
I helped create a BART train simulator. It, at least, has a railroad connection. And, I assure all that I do not feel the need to repeat that accomplishment for a near-infinite number of times.
Give it a break, man.
Ed
7j43kWhy do you continuously repeat that you invented sonar (or something)? It implies that you don't think anyone read it the first time. Or the second. Or the third. Or the fourth.
IMO, Old School seems to work on a bit of a different plane (I still haven't figured out how all these disparate dioramic pieces are supposed to come together like he stated they will earlier in the thread - and what ever did happen to that "Malcolm Furlow" pastiche with 100 and 1 telephone poles), but I just figured that he's proud enough of his sonar background to include it in his signature (I, OTOH, disliked futzing around with Kalman Filtering algorithms when I was working for the Military-Industrial Complex). Sort of like "Never too old to have a happy childhood" or "people in hamburg never grow old, they just rust*" or animated stick figures trying to cross a canyon or whatever. I won't bust on him for that (hey, we have a monk who's schtick is he's a big cat), and this stained-glass scenery seems to be a rather different (and colorful) angle in railroad modeling. Not sure how it will all turn out and it likely won't be the next smd-led/static grass/photo-modeling/dcc, but you must admit it is different.
Do you have a name? Will you share that name?
*Well, something like that.
Old School:
Your work is different and novel. Just keep doing what you are doing and ignore the nay-sayers. You are free to share your history, which personally I think is quite interesting.
By the way, your recent critic has a history of doing the same thing to others. He is free to comment as he wishes as long as he stays within the rules, but we have no obligation to give him heed, and you have no obligation to post your name.
hon30critterYour work is different and novel. Just keep doing what you are doing and ignore the nay-sayers.
I agree with Dave.
I check in to this thread every few days and get caught up with what you're doing, Old School. If I come away with only one technique or idea then I'm all the richer for it. I say carry on 'ol chap.
You are investing a lot of time and effort into showing your progress and you should be commended for a job well done.
Regards, Ed
Morning coffee and more comedy to read on my thread. LOL
What I will add to my resume is that I have read well over a thousand issues of magazines on model railroads and have scrapbooked a few thousand articles, each preserved in acid-free sleeves in my old hockey card binders in the picture. I know what has been done in the past by great modellers, whose shoulders bear my weight. Insults thrown my way also fly in the face of those amazing people.
My oldest and most cherished issue. I was 2 years old when this issue came out. Oh no, I just gave away my age!
Hey Old School!
We are the same age!
I admire your resilience! I tend to have a thinner skin so I have a hard time brushing things off when I am being bullied.
Cheers!!
I for one can't wait to see the final product of all this. I'm certainly no artist, this is definitely something I wouldn't be able to do. But I can enjoy the results. I have plenty of railroad art for the train room and they aren't all photo-realistic paintings.
My advice for those who don't like this - stop reading this thread!
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.
7j43k Do you have a name? Will you share that name? Why do you continuously repeat that you invented sonar (or something)? It implies that you don't think anyone read it the first time. Or the second. Or the third. Or the fourth. I helped create a BART train simulator. It, at least, has a railroad connection. And, I assure all that I do not feel the need to repeat that accomplishment for a near-infinite number of times. Give it a break, man. Ed
Ed,
MYOB. He's not repeating it "a near-infinite number of times," it's his signature. It's automatically appended to all his posts. If you had an accomplishment you were proud of, you could do the same.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Steve,
Could does not mean would or should.
But you are correct about his not repeating it "a near-infinte number of times". It only feels that way to me.
He actually repeated it 205 times. In this topic, alone. I stand corrected on that.
You know, there's a reason that I'm bothered by the repetition. That's because I was actually following this topic. And appreciating it. As I did his topic about building his layout. I thought he was doing a grand job of exploring "other" possibilities--there's a tendency in model railroading to do what we do because everyone else does it "that way".
So I have found the actual content of his posts interesting and informative. And potentially useful.
The downside of keeping up with all this is having to read 205 times about his accomplishment. So I thought I'd suggest it's time to stop. We ALL know he invented something wonderful. By now.
And, it's a shame that his signature can't be just his name. Perhaps that's less important to him.
As could easily be pointed out by others on this forum, if it bothers you so much, stop reading it.
So, I s'pose I will.
My first sub-assembly was rough-cut and glued to my paper drawing.
The wall has been coated with a layer of red-sandstone-filled wood glue and will dry over night.
Time to play with my brand new layout. So excited! The eyes move and the sounds of steam and whistle are delightful! Read two MR articles on this train in my collection.