I was going to continue talking about making more points today, but then I though, 'I've done this before'. Maybe its just getting boring. so after an hour in the man-sion I'm back inside, and after last weekends tours I'm looking at Rail car plans for some odd reason. I have the mech for the Standard,and could probably knock up a mech for the Tin hare....
So, are there any questions the you readers have on hand making track? Or any other questions for that matter
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4 comments:
Hmmm, yeah I've been thinking about biting the bullet and hand laying my own track. So far have just been doing some reading on how to go about it. Darn! I would have gone to the Kiwi Rail shing ding if I'd known the DL was there - Frauline had me doing chores all day!
railcar in a day! has a nice ring about it. mind you its taken me 12 months to complete my DF from Kiwibonds article. i have a newer model of the graham farish railcar with a new bachmann mechanism and it is a superb runner. apart from the front and rear cabs, it looks very similar to std railcar. being 1/148?? scale,not sure how much bigger the top needs to be to match 1/120.
oooh oooh I have a question - ask me. Its not related to tech matters at all.
I was having an oldy look at the oldy layouts that you guys were doing - and I got to thinking about the wonderful lush bush scenery that was liberally plastered everywhere looking very true kiwi. Now if I look at it, it works out to be approx $4000 per cubic foot if done with woodland scenics... so... I've only got a small layout, say 12' x 10' and about two foot in the vertical, and it's going to get a mite pricey - ideas pleeze :)
I guess it depends on the level of authenticity you are striving to achieve I.e a forest of individual trees or bush with occasional trees scattered throughout.
Remember it is the overall impression you are trying to create rather than detailed forests.
I have used dried yarrow seedheads, lichen, moss, and sedum heads suitably treated with diluted PVA glue, Woodland Scenics flock and ground cover etc.
These were used to make bush without a lot of expense on two N/NZ120 layouts that draw "gee, that looks real!" comments.
It certainly helps of course having the vegetation readily available...........another advantage of rural living!
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