The rebirth of the Canyon State RR

[ezdays]

Well, I took a couple of shots to show that I'm really working on this layout. A few that I don't really need to post show the base foam, then the basic shaping using plaster-soaked paper towels. After that, I did more shaping of the terrain using joint compound. I like that over sculpture mold because it has a long set time, I can put it on rough and a put more details on it hours later, sometimes even the next morning. All that plus it's cheap and available just about anywhere. Anyway, I have my semi-finished shapes and grades and put on a coat of brown paint as dirt. Doing that brings out a lot of the imperfections in the surfaces that's hard to see if it's all white. The black tape shows about where the tracks will go.

The chapel in the background is on I scratchbuilt years ago and was on my old layout. It's the Chapel of the Holy Cross up in Sedona, Arizona, hence the red rocks. I added to it's base so I could put a tunnel under it. It is 220:1 scale since it would have been way too large if I did true N scale.