Weekend Update 3/8/15

[craigolio1]

Or you could do a build thread on here and we can all see 

Done.

[Dave V]

Installed 24 trestle bents at a 2% grade. Next I need to install all the latitudinal bracing and the fire barrel platforms. Lastly, it'll be painted and weathered to look like wood (hopefully!).  I noticed after the photo one of the longest bents (closest) looked out of alignment, so I fixed it.  Without the latitudinal bracing, the trestle's not stable enough to stand up on its own.



Using Woodland Scenics hydrocal plaster castings for some of the tunnel portals and retaining walls. Unfinished on the right, weathered and stained with acrylic craft paints on the left. I used a surviving Midland Terminal Railway tunnel north of Cripple Creek as inspiration for the coloring.

[craigolio1]

Sweet trestle. Those are my favorite bridge's.

Craig.

[basementcalling]

Installed 24 trestle bents at a 2% grade. Next I need to install all the latitudinal bracing and the fire barrel platforms. Lastly, it'll be painted and weathered to look like wood (hopefully!).  I noticed after the photo one of the longest bents (closest) looked out of alignment, so I fixed it.  Without the latitudinal bracing, the trestle's not stable enough to stand up on its own.



Using Woodland Scenics hydrocal plaster castings for some of the tunnel portals and retaining walls. Unfinished on the right, weathered and stained with acrylic craft paints on the left. I used a surviving Midland Terminal Railway tunnel north of Cripple Creek as inspiration for the coloring.

Is that the Walthers/Heljan kit?

Looks pretty sharp.

[Dave V]

Is that the Walthers/Heljan kit?

Looks pretty sharp.

It is.   It's pretty well designed.  It gets to be a bit of a pain at final assembly, but if I had a third hand, it'd be a breeze!

[lashedup]

Nice stuff everyone. Dave that bridge looks like a fun project. Added some handrails, new decking on top, traffic guardrails and a few odds and ends to the bridge one of our guys (Nate Pierce) built for the Wisconsin Dells module. Still work to be done (guard rails, roadwork and on and on), but its coming along...







Also been working on detailing the lumber yard...

[Philip H]

@lashedup I don't know what's better - rthe water or the bridge.  But WOW!

[lashedup]

Thanks for the kind words. That's Magic Water. We've tried a bunch of different water products, but that's the one that seems to work the best, least amount of shrinkage and doesn't seem to suffer from bubbling or outgassing issues later on.  Those edges were recently routed down to smooth them out a bit to make them flush with the existing water. We may add one more layer, but we'll see.

[unittrain]

Nice stuff everyone. Dave that bridge looks like a fun project. Added some handrails, new decking on top, traffic guardrails and a few odds and ends to the bridge one of our guys (Nate Pierce) built for the Wisconsin Dells module. Still work to be done (guard rails, roadwork and on and on), but its coming along...







Also been working on detailing the lumber yard...

Awesome!!!!  Are those cast abutments or styrene?

[Puddington]

Lashedup..........I'm working on a word to describe that modelling..............damn, I'll have to get back to you on that but for now we'll go with AWESOME!!!!!!

[Scottl]

Awesome bridge, really awesome!

[Roger Holmes]

Lashedup--That Wisconsin Dells bridge scene reminds me of the old Min-A-Rama that I saw as a 10-year old.  It used to be somewhere near the Dells and depicted the Milwaukee Road in O scale.  Long ago but it still makes my heart race!  Thanks for the great memory.

[craigolio1]

That bridge and water scene blows me away. I just keep going back to look at it. That water level shot is my favorite. If only there were a way to model mist.

Craig

[bbussey]

That bridge and water scene blows me away. I just keep going back to look at it. That water level shot is my favorite. If only there were a way to model mist.

Dry ice.

Beautiful work on the bridge and water.

[ednadolski]

lashedup, that's some really impressive work on those scenes. Well done!

What was the proto/inspiration for the lumber yard?

Ed