01-13-2011, 09:45 PM
Shane:
Also consider what you're going to do with the layout. If it might need to become portable, the foam based scenery is sometimes lighter. But hard shell is also light. You can use foam or crumpled newspaper to form the hardshell.
I've managed to make foam scenery in sections that fit together.
I cover my foam with another WS product (I forget which one) that's like thick latex paint as I don't have much success with plaster. I make more mess with plaster.
I inherited a module once that had a lump of scenery -- modelling a mound of ??? -- that had been made with, I think, chimney cement over a walnut 2x4 (weighed like that, anyway) and a few other bits that were based in cement. There was a bit of fun when I re-did it in foam and someone picked the new mound up for the first time.
Also consider what you're going to do with the layout. If it might need to become portable, the foam based scenery is sometimes lighter. But hard shell is also light. You can use foam or crumpled newspaper to form the hardshell.
I've managed to make foam scenery in sections that fit together.
I cover my foam with another WS product (I forget which one) that's like thick latex paint as I don't have much success with plaster. I make more mess with plaster.
I inherited a module once that had a lump of scenery -- modelling a mound of ??? -- that had been made with, I think, chimney cement over a walnut 2x4 (weighed like that, anyway) and a few other bits that were based in cement. There was a bit of fun when I re-did it in foam and someone picked the new mound up for the first time.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.