I built this today just noodling around trying to figure out how I was gonna handle this incline. the edge was so close to the next set of tracks it didnt give me room to model out a very realistic hillside....so this is what I came up with, a reatining wall that leads up to the bridge over plaster water.......still hafta do the finising touches but I think its gonna be pretty cool....eventually there will be a backdrop board behind it that will have mountains coming off it leading to backside of the line on the incline...
cool retaining wall Im working on....
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Eve how much distance is between the wall and the track on the lower level. Im guessing you are doing it in HO. I need to come up with the same kind of solution and yours looks like its turning out nice. Thanks
its in n scale roger......the edge of the ballast on the lower track just about comes up to the the wall........there might be 1/2 inch of grass and weeds between them....
the wall is all made out of stained balsa....the incline was just foam..basically the foam is just skinned in balsa and rocks, and ballast....Ill take you a better pic so you can see it a little better
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lester perry
If you go to a craft store that carries doll house material they have sheets of lap siding for exterior walls that you can tun upside downto make a retaining wall. It might be too big for n guage though.
I used plastruckt I beams painted primer grey as vertical supports. If I remmember correctly I used brown paste sho polish for color
duh......I have like 4 sheets of that lap siding too, and never even thought of that.......I took me a couple hours to do that wall, stick by stick, and I could have probably knocked it out in a half hour if I had used the siding....anyways roger heres the close up pic if it helps...the ballast plays hell withthe focus on my camera for some reason
