New O gauge extension

Thanks lads, and you Steve for the generous offer....again
Another tail chasing testing session this morning. Getting very busy on the extension !!!

 

Gary, I'm not calling my layout Gandolf or Lord of the rings The incline has already been named after a very well know incline......mine will be called the "Likely Incline"

 

today's job to make an embankment between the two main running lines and the "Likely Incline", which i want to eventually grass over.
So as I had some fly screen mesh left over from a job I decided to staple this in sections between the two boards......


difficult to see but i've stapled it in such away that the mesh ends up level with the bottom of the 9mm ply, which means there will be at least a thickness of 9mm foam.


This picture shows it a bit better



so out with the expanded foam gun, and time to play



as Ive done in the past I run a bead around the edges first then fill in



You don't need much as it will expand three times in size, if you have never tried this method before, I would suggest covering your track work, first just in case.


viewed from where the bridges allow access to the "Inner Circle" you can see the height difference



So after a nice glass of red, or two........ add 3kg to see how well it stands up. good enough for me.



out with the blades, saws and time to have some more fun, no need for a hot wire cutter here, as its easy to cut with an old wood saw and a hack saw for fine tuning.



5-10 mins later...







bit of a clean up and job done.
Now i would like to use teddy bear fur or fake fur to grass this area....any one know a good supplier?
KIM

 

Nice link Sol.
Well I did as Sol said and went to spotlight. Never realised how expensive fake fur is over here.....managed to find a small piece with a fault line in it which they sold me at a reduced price, it's just over 470mm wide and approx 1.2 m long so cut down the middle should give me enough.....down side is it's a loverly shade of ........pink I'm going to test a small section today with paint and a fabric dye to see which works best...pictures later.
Kim

 

Hi Sol, yes looked at those when I was in there. For oo gauge I recon it would be good but for o gauge to me it didn't look like the effect I want to create as it's looks more like clumped grass as apposed to long tall grass....

 

A quick test with some Brunswick green spray paint gives this as the result:-


result, but I will vary the length of the fur and add flowers and lighter / darker clumps to break it all up. Time to start gluing it down.