Scenery - Structures
Making Windows for scratch build houses
Here´s a detailed guide for two excellent methods making fully prototypic miniature windows.
Whispering Falls
I was following Greg Shinnie's post on the construction of Whispering Falls, a craftsman kit by Rail Scale Miniatures. I'm no longer able to find the post. If anyone has a good link to it, or perhaps a copy of the post, that would be fantastic.
Brad
Making steel plates out of paper and wax polish
I experimented with my wife's RubnBuff wax to create steel plates.
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I just used my fingers to rub in it on the paper also paint to depict rust.
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Just test fitting them and will later put some dents in them to show evidence of logs and drift wood colliding with them in the past.
Cascade Sub: Summer Update 2021
It has been quite some time since I have posted on this blog, however progress has been occurring in the background. As expected for a younger man, life is busy and ever-changing. In the past year I have had very little time to work on the railroad consistently for long stretches of time, only getting a few days or weeks to tackle projects.
Advice on building kits
Hi all, new to the forum. Back at my layout after like a 7 year gap! So relearning or rethinking a lot. Modeling a freelance mountain line in the Allegheny mountain area, the Virginia Western Railway. One question i'd like to pose.
Practicing with Scenery in On30 (as 55n3)
(Edited title for clarity - and to fix the typo)
Portland & Yamhill's #204 is spotted at an (as yet unnamed) industry.
The track is Atlas HO code 83 on balsa wood ties. Since I have mislaid my bag of spikes, nothing is nailed down. I'm just experimenting with techniques. Proof of Concept, as it were.
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