a new mini HON3 layout started

Bill Nelson

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have resolved my technical issues, can no longer post from the I pad, or transfer photos from it to the desk top, but I found an easy way to resize pictures from my phone



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The Bugtustle station , and the beginning of the upper business district






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the same shot a bit farther out




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the lower business district. the white stuff at the bottom of the frame is wax paper. I'm glueing foam boulders on the removable scenery plug. I didn't want the white glue tp bond the removable section to the rest of the layout



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I've grabbed a bunch of small buildings off my big HO layout to fill out the business districts








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am carving arched foam bridge
 

Bill Nelson

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I have got the resizing of photos figured out Have a big dump of photos of the progress on the Bugtustle loop since my last installment
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there may be some duplication, can't remember where I was



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putting in the wye, which crosses the big Bugtustle gorge.IMG_0397.JPG





and elevated on stone pilings to fit.


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the lower business district the white above the lower bridge is wax paper protecting the creek underneith it from scenery work nearby.


IMG_0410.JPG Insulation foam trimmed to a close fit to the rock faces.




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IMG_0886.JPGthe foam is then carved into a masonry bridge



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Kitbashbing a mine combining a cut down Plasticville coaling station , and an old time coal mine, that was sold by Pola, AHM, Tycho, and God Only knows who else. parts of this were once part of the J. E Patterson Cumberland # 2 mine. repurposed here as the Cumberland Mine, ( a Grateful Dead reference from the Cumberland Blues-https://youtu.be/REM_Safq3QU ).




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replacing the wonky plastic supports with wooden ones, and building a wooden roof. the stock plastic roof looked like it was intended to represent slate roofing, but the pieces of slate looked more appropriate for O scale . it also didn't fit well. I will likely cover this with corrogated paper roofing from wild west models.



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getting there!



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in place!



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landform started IMG_1174.JPG

land forms established


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carving rocks, one advantage of big city life, is 50 lb bags of hydrocal are available for $28.00 15 minutes fron the bungalow.





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beginning water effects


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I sure do like this! next photo dump in the Magnolia thread in the RC section
 
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