My current Glue shell tequnique, which I have developed pretty much on my own, is a variation of the old Hardshell method, which used paper towels dipped in soupy plaster. I did that for years, and always made a horrible mess.
Instread after making up the land forms as seen in earlier pictures with strips of carboard stapled or hot glued to the wood benchwork, and the enterwoven, basketweaving style with itself, glued to gether at as many spots as possible with hot glue. I then cover it with handiwipes. I paint the carboard near the edges of a sheet of handiwipes with white glue just slightly dilluted with water and liquid dishwashing detergent. in the middle of a section of landform under the entended location of the handiwipe I paint the cardboard with a souloution that is perhaps two thirds white glue, and one third water. Once the handiwipes are in place on the land form I paint the entire surface of the handiwipe with a souloution of 50 50 white glue and water with a drop or so of diswasher detergent.
Where there will be rock outcroppings the handiwipes will be covered with a genrerous layer of hydrocal plaster, which I then carve the rocks into. where it is just gravel and dird, I will paint the handiwipes with acrrilic paint, to insure no light blue shows later, and then with full strengthe white glue, followed by whatever ground cover I;m using, followed by diluted white glue, watter, and detergent, as one would do gluing ballast down, the handiwipes, the groundcover, and the glue will make the scenery strong enough.
The builkding to the right is a tannery, they would get bark, surpluss from the logging site, soak it in water in big vats to get tannic acid, and use the tannic acid to tan leather, this Tannery used to be on the backside of my old Harlow, but was not finished when that section of my own layout was torn down. in gets a new life here near the banks of Crooked Creek
I built this bridge out of pieces of four different bridges from my own layout. the decks came from two bridges that were built very close to eachother time wise, and thus had bridgeties cut to the same size, and out of the same materials. I removed the old code 70 rails, and installed code 83 rails, and spliced them together. the two steel spand are Atlas products, and they and one of the peirs came from a third bridge, and the other two piers came from a fouth bridge. Likely this will be the longest bridge on my RR.
Nelson