Remaking of the Ridley Keystone & Mountain

[Porthos63]

Fantastic scene! That's some seriously good work.

[tompm]

Fantastic scene! That's some seriously good work.

Thank you.
Sorry it me so long to reply.

[tompm]

While I was nursing the old heater along I found myself with some time to do a few upgrades.

First I added some trees.





I started to do some ballasting at the switch for the coal dealer.



While that was drying I carved and added some spackle to area behinds the bridge wing walls.

[tompm]

Next I painted the area.





I then added some greenery.

[tompm]

I filled in some of the barren areas



I ballasted across the bridge.



I added ground cover from the bridges to the Golden Valley Cannery.

[TMo]

Lookin' good, Tom! A couple of days and some effort changes the whole vibe of that area and I'm sure you're feeling a sense of accomplishment. Inspiration + Perspiration = Satisfaction.

[tompm]

Wow, I can't believe it has been over a year since I posted here. I guess I ws having too much fun running trains and then there life's issues.

Now I am finally back to the layout. Having to clean up for the water mitigation people forced me into clearing and cleaning the layout. With the clean up and mitigation done I now have many oppruntiities to work and improve the layout. The next structure to be assembled is Bachmann's Spectrum City Scenes Trade Tower.



Another kit with a gazillon windows and walls.

[tompm]

Speaking of the windows I have begun to add them to the first wall section.



First wall completed with window frames and glazing.



Many, many more windows to go.

[tompm]

I kind of got a little ahead of myself. Before I started the Trade Tower. I built replacement passenger platorms to replace the ones that were severaly damaged from a variety of misfortunes.

Here are the old damged ones.





And here are the new platforms





I still need to do some weathering before that are completed.