This is my first blog and I am hoping it will work like a Work in Progress (WIP) type journal.

First of all this WIP has nothing to do (directly) with railway or trains . But it could be. That is, the working lift-span bridge could be easily used in a model railway layout. The scale is 1/72 which is not a model railway scale-gauge at all, but the 1/76 is close enough (OO scale).

While shopping for something else, I ran across a kit of magnetic brackets meant for holding phones and tablets to the dashboard of a car.  Since I use a mini-tablet for a control panel I bought one for experimentation.  

A small, adhesive-backed metal plate attaches to the back of the tablet. The bracket has a strong magnet that holds the metal plate. This bracket has a tilt-swivel head and attaches to the layout with a suction cup. 

Since my last post I had glued hydrocal rock castings to the mountains on the newer section and colored them after having glued the tunnel portals and retaining walls in place. The next set of photos shows the progress.

This is the newest section I mentioned in a previous post with the mountains and portals in place.

This blog is aimed at providing a place to discuss methods and material use for improving the realism of our models, structures rolling stock/locomotives and overall layouts.

I hope to discuss anything and everything that can improve realism.