Stone Arch Viaduct / Bridge

[doctorwayne]

.....It has been suggested that I could make use of that Chooch flexible stone wall material to form the decorative facings of my viaduct structure,...and i liked the idea. BUT at $12.99 per each piece (3.5" x 6") that could become pretty expensive.

For the price of perhaps 3 or 4 of those Chooch sheets, you could buy a 4'x8' sheet of .060" styrene, and, if you don't mind making it a concrete bridge rather than a stone one, make the face of the arches as a single piece.  I'd probably use .020" sheet styrene to do the arches, as the .060" stuff won't curve sharply enough.  

You'd also have lots of material left over to build all sorts of stuff.  I use it for the unseen side of kitbashed structures, and cut into strips, it's great to use as bracing inside of large structures.  I've gone through at least four or five sheets.













The retaining wall visible in the photo below (which extends pretty-well right through this town, mostly hidden by structures) was also scratchbuilt using .060" sheet material...







This one makes use of a bunch of Walthers window castings I had left after building the Languay factory, shown in the second photo.  The rest of it was scratchbuilt using .060" sheet styrene.







All of my many paper background structures are on the same material, too...





I agree with Charlie and Mikey, though....the approaches to the viaduct would be on fill at least to a height that would be practical.  It would have been a lot cheaper than using stone or concrete for the whole thing.  I'd think that the lowest arch that would look appropriate should be at least high enough for a vehicle to drive under it, even if you don't need a road at that particular spot.


Wayne