Seaboard Central 2.0

[basementcalling]

Thanks, but I like mine much better than that one.

Oh, I agree. But you know how things go right after you finish a scratchbuild.

[davefoxx]

I got a coat of my go-to concrete color on the bridge tonight:



DFF

[OldEastRR]

Standard layout scenery construction, where all  the scenes need to be linked visually, is quite a detriment to making realistic scenes. Especially on a small layout, where everything is crushed together. Hard to blend in a small rural siding right next to a major urban manufacturing core, next to a mountain, next to a sleepy port town. (Not saying that's what you have, just an example). I'm trying double-faced backdrops and open breaks in the scenery to visually and thematically separate areas. This sometimes means open areas of benchwork both large and small. Though they can be used for access sometimes, that's not their main function. One way to describe it is to think of it as an around the wall layout that's been condensed and adjusted to fit in a free-standing benchwork version -- in effect shrinking the open space in the center to much smaller areas.
It's a concept that takes a new way of thinking and especially observing. The layout is not seen as one whole panorama but individual scenes separated by only a few inches of open space.

[basementcalling]

I got a coat of my go-to concrete color on the bridge tonight:



DFF

Model Master Light Aircraft Gray cannot be beat for a base concrete color. Still trying to find an acrylic match from Wally World or Michaels with no luck. About tempted to go to Lowes and ask for a custom mixed color in the 12oz bottle.

Looking good, Dave. Add more white and call it a wrap. Model a snow scene and I am sure that will help the real stuff show up.

[wm3798]

I always used straight up grey primer as a base, then went back with mists of flat black and red primer to weather it a bit.



The turntable pit above is a good example...

Lee

[davefoxx]

@wm3798,

. . . and it does (did) look nice.  Too bad Ed filled in the pit.   

DFF

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Lol. The pit does still remain though, for Lee to tie to a brick and throw through Walthers window.

[davefoxx]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[basementcalling]

Lol. The pit does still remain though, for Lee to tie to a brick and throw through Walthers window.

Please. With a note to make more N scale.

[rodsup9000]

 Just got caught back up on your layout. The overpass came out awesome.

[davidgray1974]

Any updates on the pine trees Paul is making for you?  I'm anxious to see them on your layout.  The last pic he posted of them really looked amazing.

[Chris333]

I smell an update to the boxcar roster:
https://www.nscalesupply.com/MTL/MTL-12200100.htm

[davefoxx]

I smell an update to the boxcar roster:
https://www.nscalesupply.com/MTL/MTL-12200100.htm

Hmm.  Pop the running board off and weather it heavily as a 1960s-era car and paint scheme surviving into the early to mid-1980s, and it could work.   I'll have to go look for a photo photo for inspiration.  Thanks for the heads-up! 

DFF

[davefoxx]

Any updates on the pine trees Paul is making for you?  I'm anxious to see them on your layout.  The last pic he posted of them really looked amazing.

@davidgray1974,

No news, but I'm not placing any pressure on him.

DFF

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Hmm.  Pop the running board off and weather it heavily as a 1960s-era car and paint scheme surviving into the early to mid-1980s, and it could work.   I'll have to go look for a photo photo for inspiration.  Thanks for the heads-up! 

DFF

Do share when you find said photo, too... asking for a friend... lol.