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I don't know why I went to all the trouble of building eight bunk houses when the LPBs are so careless. This I am adding to my base logging camp on my NTrak module. It will be a conversation piece at least.

Perfect choice Kurt, very nice and I admire your scratchbuilding style.

Thanks Berra and Andy for the kind comments. Andy the cabins are scratch built using modified casting I made from one section of a SYLVAN cabin kit and the rest is .04" Board and Batten shet styrene. The .075" spacing of the styrene matched the cabin front casting from the SYLVAN kit almost...

Placed them on the module to get some idea of how many more I will need. Lots if other stuff to build, chow hall, privies, tool sheds, wash shed and my list goes on an on.

Well lets try the next part of my posting. Here are the bunk houses and store structures drying on my fixture board.

What happened to the pictures? Keep getting an upload error, what the hey is going on?

Got to love rainy days and Mondays. Lots of time to work on my modules. I first make cutouts of the areas I have available to place my structures and scenery. I think on this dead end spur I will put my base camp for the lumber company.

You can see that seven tracks will cross a planned river, lots of different types of bridges needed. The two front (Red/Yellow) Ntrak lines will cross with a double track structure of some sort. Most of the others will be typical logging style, throw down some heavy logs lay some track and get...

Okay, I'm back, here are two pictures with my track plan.

Good question NYNH&H. Just finalized my track plan, (blue masking tape) and applied a dark paint wash to all the rockwork. I was real carefull, made a very thin wash and applied it to all the rockwork, put it on heavy, letting it soak into the rocks and sculptamold. Thought I did a thorough...

Hi Conner, Basically all I did was fill the 1 1/4 inch opening of the male fitting with the smallest reducer I could find. What I wanted to do was bolt the fitting to the cross member. I used a fender washer because the thru hole in the reducer was too large for the nut and bolt. It worked...

Hi again Sid, I want a solid coupling between the two locomotives and decided to go with a draw bar type of lashup. Think this is the only way to go, because replacing that little cosmetic coupler on the front with something substantial can only be done with a draw bar. This will limit my use...

Sid, had the same problem when I changed the Rapido over to a MT coupler. Had to mill out a pocket and then had to add a piece of styrene inside the tender to ensure the screw held. Just purchased another one to run a two engine ATSF passenger consist. Too much work to change it over to a MT...

I also add a few smaller castings to break up the flat surface.

I then placed the rock and with a slight twisting motion pushed the rock into place. The sculptamold that oozes out I shape with a cut off acid brush and my fingers.

Test fit, mixed my sculptamold and mortored it onto the back of my rock

A fast how I "dunit" I selected an area to attach a hydrocal rock and cleaned a little of the foam away so that it would sit flush.

I use and love the stuff, great mortor for affixing those cast plaster or hydrocal rocks.

SUPER JOB! I am looking to get the fast track jig to make a few turnouts, but I'm a long way off before I attempt what your Dad fabricated, that's beautiful.

Doc - your post made my day, just had to sign in and say that I am LMAO