Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Scenery and roads

 Layout progression has been moving slowly but steadily as most of the layouts scenery will e grass mats from Faller it makes scovering the scene so much easier.... the trees and trackside brush on the other hand might be a little more time consuming.

One of the major changes to the siding was the relocation of the siding around the main line absolute CTC signal. The Pere Marquette and early C&O commonly did this in the northern division with dwarf signals governing the siding and the searchlights governing the main line. 

the roadways have been poured and as it was my first time working with the Woodland Scenics "Smooth it" I slowly learned how to pour and eliminate most of the small air bubbles that seemed to appear after being dried. The roadway was then sprayed with Testors Light aircraft grey paint which closely resembled bleache concrete. Granted the roadways still need weathering and the crossing pannels need to be glued and laid in the over all basics of the scene is coming along.