08-14-2022, 02:37 PM
You advice worked great Wayne:
It needs a bit of cleanup but the turnouts all work the way they are supposed to and the ballast stayed where I wanted it. I do spray with the 'wet' water before but I used diluted Mod- Podge as my scenic cement.
I am about to start laying the rail. In fact I have soldered the first two rails in but I decided to take a short break and work on another project:
I wanted to make a scale layout plan for the section that I'm working on so I can figure out streets, buildings and other details. I watched a tutorial or two on line and drew this in a few hours. I know it's not perfectly up to draftsman standards but it is a fairly accurate schematic.
The scale is 1" to 1'. I went online to Printable rulers.net and found an imperial ruler that was divided into 1/12th on an inch and that helped with scaling down the layout. After that all I needed was a straight edge, a square, compass and a French curve. I added the warehouse and station buildings since I already knew where they were going.
I also hope this also helps to plan the engine facility down the road as I am still toying with the idea of a turntable, if it fits.
It needs a bit of cleanup but the turnouts all work the way they are supposed to and the ballast stayed where I wanted it. I do spray with the 'wet' water before but I used diluted Mod- Podge as my scenic cement.
I am about to start laying the rail. In fact I have soldered the first two rails in but I decided to take a short break and work on another project:
I wanted to make a scale layout plan for the section that I'm working on so I can figure out streets, buildings and other details. I watched a tutorial or two on line and drew this in a few hours. I know it's not perfectly up to draftsman standards but it is a fairly accurate schematic.
The scale is 1" to 1'. I went online to Printable rulers.net and found an imperial ruler that was divided into 1/12th on an inch and that helped with scaling down the layout. After that all I needed was a straight edge, a square, compass and a French curve. I added the warehouse and station buildings since I already knew where they were going.
I also hope this also helps to plan the engine facility down the road as I am still toying with the idea of a turntable, if it fits.