Blog- Gene's Blog - Scenery and cobblers...er cobbles

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So..back to the present layout.

Here's an overhead view of the layout...essentialy the right-hand side is a 3 track Inglenook with the shortest front track haveing a kickback sideing that serves the local fuel company, the left side is a 2 track inglenook and the two are joined by a runaround. the rear right hand track is the branchline that heads off the right rear side to the rest of the world http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa185/Genetk44/NEW%20MULTI-MODE%20FOLDING%20LAYOUT/DSCN1277.jpg

 

Scenery was the standard techniques and materials...Woodland Scenics, dried tea from used tea-bags, washes. etc The buildings are all commercial products I built useing the DPM series of modular pieces. The backscene was originally foamcore that I painted a greyish sky on, but the foamcore warped after a few days so I got some thin balsa and used that for the backscene. Oh yeah...track was regular Peco code 100 flex and insulfrog points. In a way the layout is finished, but of course layouts are never finished and I keep finding things to change and/or add...in the meantime I keep playing trains on it while I plan the next layout :icon_biggrin: :icon_biggrin:

I really am pleased with Jack Trollopes' bicycle-spoke manual point control system, next time I'll use electro-frog points with a micro-switch as per Jacks drawing in my earlier blog entry.

I'm partial to inset track..on this layout I did a section of inset tack by useing some plaster...next time I'm going to use sheets of foam with cobbles carved into it as per a technique posted on another forum by a chap called Peer Donner.. http://germanrail.8.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=2515 looks really fantastic in my humble opinion.

I did some experiments useing his technique on the foam trays that meat and veg comes packed on from the grocery store http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa185/Genetk44/DSCN1220.jpg

 

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