Sunday, November 9, 2008

Picture time


So the first thing I did was print off my terminal's trackplan from Winrail9 and lay it out on the foam to make sure the measurements worked. And for the most part all is well... but how to transfer the track



That part was easy! but tedious and took a few hours thats for sure. What I did was cut out the track plan and tack it down on the foam. I then bought some nice water based laytex paint (can't remember the color... it's like Birds-nest by CEL or something like that) and painted the whole thing.... the idea is that I'm using the track plan as a stencil so that I'll know where everything goes!


As the paint dried I took out some woodland scenics fine blended turf and fine black turf and sprinkled it over the layout in the areas I wanted it in. After I got the general coverage I wanted from the two colors I took the greenery and sprinkled it over the black turf to simulate grass poking through. I'm pretty happy with the results!


The next step will be to cut a hole for my turntable and assemble that part of the layout!

It's been a while


Since I was notified by my wife that we'd be moving the old Great Falls layout has been dismantled... and as of Nov 1 2008 we have taken possession of our new place, and I staked my political claim to bedroom to be used for the Great Falls Layout... owned and operated by the Pacific South Eastern Railway.

There has been quite a bit of construction going on... lets take a look.

The first image I'd like to share is the layout to the left... the original plan for this room. It's changing quite drastically the more and more I work on the new layout as ideas keep popping into my head on how to make this layout better.


The first major change was to the terminal section:


Kinda a blurry pic... sorry. But as you can kinda see I just moved the freight yard forward and put the passenger terminal farther back. This allows easier construction and reaches for me when it comes to build and operate.

speaking of building...

The benchwork has been started... and finished for the terminal section only... which is all the treasury has for funding at the moment... BUT
I'll let the rest of the pics tell the story... in the next post.