Another bridge too far

You're right Tom - not often you've heard that

36mm to top of the stand and 34mm to the top of the rail, that's what I get for downloading a file and hitting print

Looking at current regs, they should be 1.1m approx 43 inches which will give approx 25mm in O gauge or reduce the model by 25%

Ah well I knew I was getting on too well.

Paul

 

Is this better

I need to wait for the next batch to print to be able to create the correct length and profile.

Paul

 

Phylasteins the pair of you, cant you tell its a water feature

Bit more earth works

Foam cut / extra added for the road, with a raised pathway for pedestrians (I've placed a hand rail to help envisage the effect).

A single track road winds down part of the road, before the mountains start to take over again.

The junction

and the road

Paul

 

Probably, and on the next layout will be

The are attached permanently to the supports and will have to do, any way, bridges made in Dundee are allowed to be wrong, we make them top multitask, cross the river and wash the loco



Tay Bridge Disaster

Paul

 

And more earth works today, in between printing more handrails.

Added some plaster bandage to the bits so far

Then started to add more polystyrene foam to make formers

Gorilla glue used to stick them down, and bags of plaster of paris make excellant weights.

Test fitting the next two formers

Bit more foam added to the road

Now working on the bits at the back

Looks like the mad rock builder will be getting plastered tomorrow.

Paul

 

A little progress made today, ost of the time was spent making rock castings, with a packet of plaster that was on its way off - its over 4 years old so I can't really complain, but I had roughly 3 mins working time. On the plus side I could reuse the mould in less than 15mis.

Bit more foam sculpting on the road and pathways, enough to be able to seal them in plaster bandage, and for the piccies a test fit on the hand railing

Paul

 

Thanks guys.

A little more progress, another 2 and a bit Kg of plaster used up making rock mouldings. As these can take a few days to fully dry, yesterdays and today's moulding's were put in the oven for approx 1 hour @ 120C, opening the door several times to let the steam out. Once finished the oven was turned off, but the door opened slightly to allow any remaing moisture to vent and the mouldings to cool slowly.

A few of them have been fitted on to the layout, and as I'm getting a visit tomorrow from Toto, to have a go at mountain / rock building and painting, I thought I'd better get some of it base coated with Slate Grey emulsion - the bit at the font 1st coat used a whole tester pot, just as well I bought a 2.5 litre tin.

His first job tomorrow with be to make up a wash, and apply to the surface, then a coffee or two later, start the dry brushing, Slate Grey - will lighten the base coated area with the wash, then Dove Grey, again all over, and finally downward strokes with Silver Mist (a very pale grey) to highlight edges.

The board will then get spun round and he can try cutting / joining / sculpting the foam, then attach rock mouldings, plaster bandage and plaster fillins.

Yep our beloved leader is coming to Dundee to get plastered, and drive home afterwards

Paul

PS Toto if you read this before you leave, remember track, moulds and the Traverser power supply.

 

A busy day, and probably working the wrong way, but hey what's new.

Toto Van Go, working in his black wash period - applying a thin black wash to all the base coated surfaces. Toto was reminded even if he somehow manages to screw it up, it's just a repaint with base coat and start again.

After mastering drowning everything in black wash, he moved on to dry brushing.

Not bad for his first attempt

Next we hit the rocks, gluing the rock castings at an angle representing one side of a syncline, on the rear face we will model both sides of the syncline with a fault line in the middle, eroded to give a gulley.

The castings were clued on with a hot glue gun, applying the glue to the casting then pushed in place on to the foam base.

Next plaster bandage was applied .

Then plaster applied to fill the gaps and smooth out the plaster bandage, also with some bits of tissue to mixed in the plaster to form other bits of relief.

On the otherside of the track, the foam had a rough V drainage gully cut and a culvert made. The culvert was made from clay formed around a piece of pipe.
The whole lot again covered in plaster bandage.

The culvert will line up with syncline fault and gulley, and will have a small water feature.

Now that Toto has been plastered he's heading home.

Paul