Not really, I don't get paid for "playing with trains". Oh that I could..
All the remaining "scenes" (or what ever MR calls them) have been styrofoamed and papered. From east to west...
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| Kern Medical Center |
I made the medical center multi-level. For some reason I think hospitals in small cities are usually on a hill and made up of several wings. It seems that individual wings are on a different elevation from the others..
Like the other areas I'm showing the cement plant now has a styrofoam base...
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Alpha
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The other small buildings in Alpha will probably sit on the plaster shell. Actually they'll be IN the shell. As I did in Train Simulator models I plan to build these structures with foundations. I'll cut a hole in the shell and insert the building so that the foundation looks the proper height above ground.
I repapered the Rt 442 section of Quotidian thus giving the local motorheads some place to blow off steam...
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| Dragsters Paradise |
Hot rods in the 50's were far different than the tuners running today. No drifting, just unadulterated horsepower and a lightweight body. The "coolness quotient" was increaseed by things like flat primer with white walls, baby moons etc. Most were pre-war with flat head V-8's or GM stovebolt inline sixes. Multiple carbs and open exhaust were more a rule than the exception. Every once in a while somebody got a hold of one of those overhead valve Olds engines but they were few and far between.
Anyway, back to the subject at hand. The powerhouse, colliery facilities and Carbon Point are all supported by styrofoam platforms. At other locations the platform is glued directly to the deck. These elevated platforms are supported by the the spline itself...
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| Powerhouse |
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| Colliery and Enginehouse |
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| Carbon Point |
Tomorrow these areas will be ready for trimming and look more like they're supposed to.
I also got to start on the scenery shell. I used paper towels soaked in thinned drywall compound. It's a bit messy, but most of it gets on your hands...
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| Lake Elsinore And Alpha |
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| May The "Great Wreath" Watch Over Us All |
Building a dream layout on a nightmare budget
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The Average Eastern Railroad
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