The New Layout

[Gary S]

You've accomplished a great deal of work here! Looking good!

[Trains Winnipeg]

Well I thought I posted this last night, I guess I only hit preview not submit.

Sunday was a fairly productive day. Made the base forms for the next section of scenery.
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Now with the last section of scenery I did, I used Scenic Express plaster cloth. Was the first time I had tried this type of product as I tend to use some of the older techniques I was taught growing up. Mainly strips of newspaper dipped in plaster. I thought it went well, For this section though I used the WS plaster cloth and wow what a difference. Much better coverage and quality. And its a dollar less than the scenic express cloth.
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Now onto placing the rock castings. I did also manage to get 2 kits painted with primer as well.

[Trains Winnipeg]

Well managed to get a little more done this weekend. Laid out about 15 feet of roadbed and glued everything down.
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Then continued on to scenery, started adding the rock mold to the unfinished end of the mine area.
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Then made added about 2 feet of plaster the the mountain in the next room.

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[steinjr]

Beautiful mountain scenes!

Smile,
Stein

[Trains Winnipeg]

Well It's been a long time since I updated this thread... Hope everyones summer was well.

I did get a few things done over the summer, One loop of the mainline is completed and running. Worked on a few kits as well, pictures to follow in a few days. Tonights adventure after cleaning a few dust bunnies off the layout was the backdrop. It started with the removal off the trees from the hillside( A 4 legged furball helped do this over the summer too!!!) And we get the following.    

Then an hour or so later
   

Tomorrow I will start to define the edges a little more. Need some more supplies first though.

[Gary S]

Nice work on blending the mountains with the backdrop. Keep us posted on your progress.

[Herc Driver]

That's really looking good! I like the transition from the scenery to the painted hills too.

[Trains Winnipeg]

Well its been a while since I updated anything here.

After the last post I started to add some haze to the horizon and it went horribly wrong.......

So we started again.

Here is today at lunch.
   

And here is 10 minutes before posting this.
   


So now its time to Re Plant a few hundred trees.

[Trains Winnipeg]

Well I managed to get a few trees planted the other night.


   

[ngauger]

Nice!! The trees really add depth to the scenery

[Trains Winnipeg]

And some clouds. Looks a little distorted in the picture due to the curve in the backdrop here.

   

[Trains Winnipeg]

And today we carry on,

   
   
   

[nachoman]

Practice makes perfect! Looks like you are having fun. Keep the updates coming.

[Charlie B]

What time tomorrow can I expect to see you painting my backdrops. Nice work. You are really doing a great job. Two thumbs up.
Charlie

[Trains Winnipeg]

What time tomorrow can I expect to see you painting my backdrops. Nice work. You are really doing a great job. Two thumbs up.
Charlie

You buy the ticket....

Here is some "Trees" applied right to the back drop.