4 hours ago
I continued with roughing in the scenery with the cardboard latice:
I had to stop here for a bit until I figured some things out. My plan is to rough all the scenry in around the logging area and sawmillup to where the stamp mill is. That would also finalize the terrain around the enginehouse and turntable. There are a few things to work out first
The elevation between the sawmill and the track is about 1" but the roadbed is just a bit too close to the sawmill. I have to cut the roadbed back just a bit so I can build a retaining wall without encrouching on the sawmill dioramam base.
With that done I finally finished my standard gauge tracklaying to the logging camp:
The longer track will be the log loading track. The idea is that the narrow gauge logging train will come down the curved track in the forground, dump its logs in the open space to the left of the longer track and they would then be loaded on the standard gauge track. The shorter track is for storage or suppy deliveries. I'll add a loading dock there.
It took this afternoon to lay the track, turnout and add the caboose industries ground throws. The track I laid today was atlas code 83. Not the handlaid track I lay in other places but it won't be as noticable and I would have reaching issues trying to hand-lay that far up.
I can almost start to add the scenery forms in the back I just have a bit of clean-up to do before I continue.
I had to stop here for a bit until I figured some things out. My plan is to rough all the scenry in around the logging area and sawmillup to where the stamp mill is. That would also finalize the terrain around the enginehouse and turntable. There are a few things to work out first
The elevation between the sawmill and the track is about 1" but the roadbed is just a bit too close to the sawmill. I have to cut the roadbed back just a bit so I can build a retaining wall without encrouching on the sawmill dioramam base.
With that done I finally finished my standard gauge tracklaying to the logging camp:
The longer track will be the log loading track. The idea is that the narrow gauge logging train will come down the curved track in the forground, dump its logs in the open space to the left of the longer track and they would then be loaded on the standard gauge track. The shorter track is for storage or suppy deliveries. I'll add a loading dock there.
It took this afternoon to lay the track, turnout and add the caboose industries ground throws. The track I laid today was atlas code 83. Not the handlaid track I lay in other places but it won't be as noticable and I would have reaching issues trying to hand-lay that far up.
I can almost start to add the scenery forms in the back I just have a bit of clean-up to do before I continue.