Hi all,
Remember this thread?
http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=22534
In it I showed an area I was working on. I've since made some progress and would like to share.
I guess you would call these coal/limestone bins. I want to park hoppers loaded with coal and limestone flux (flux is rocks about the size of two fists) over these pits for unloading.
This project is far from done. In fact, in picture 4 of 5 you can see the stucco patch is still wet. I plan to make piles of coal and limestone by first carving the piles out of foam and smoothing stucco patch over the foam piles. You can see that I have already done this. When the stucco patch is dry, my plan is to spray paint the area in black and light grey auto primer, one color for each pile. Next I'll pour and glue some WS ballast in appropriate colors over that.
When I slid the module back under the track, removed ties and set the kilns back in place, I was happy with the look. When I spotted my first two Detroit and Mackinac (formerly CSX) 3 bay hoppers over the pit, I wept.
It looked so good.
It never ceases to amaze me how the grungy colors, rough texture and skewed angles of the pre-EPA industrialist's structures can look so beautiful.
I think I'll be putting red and yellow light in the kilns to see if I can simulate fire. Ideas on how to do this, or any other suggestions or critiques are always welcome.
Here you can really see how I have remarked the CSX herald with the DM. ( I imagine this is historically backwards, as DM preceeded CSX, but I suppose those hoppers could have been of the former Michigan Central RR.) Who's gonna know? aussie
Remember this thread?
http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=22534
In it I showed an area I was working on. I've since made some progress and would like to share.
I guess you would call these coal/limestone bins. I want to park hoppers loaded with coal and limestone flux (flux is rocks about the size of two fists) over these pits for unloading.
This project is far from done. In fact, in picture 4 of 5 you can see the stucco patch is still wet. I plan to make piles of coal and limestone by first carving the piles out of foam and smoothing stucco patch over the foam piles. You can see that I have already done this. When the stucco patch is dry, my plan is to spray paint the area in black and light grey auto primer, one color for each pile. Next I'll pour and glue some WS ballast in appropriate colors over that.
When I slid the module back under the track, removed ties and set the kilns back in place, I was happy with the look. When I spotted my first two Detroit and Mackinac (formerly CSX) 3 bay hoppers over the pit, I wept.
It looked so good.
It never ceases to amaze me how the grungy colors, rough texture and skewed angles of the pre-EPA industrialist's structures can look so beautiful.
I think I'll be putting red and yellow light in the kilns to see if I can simulate fire. Ideas on how to do this, or any other suggestions or critiques are always welcome.
Here you can really see how I have remarked the CSX herald with the DM. ( I imagine this is historically backwards, as DM preceeded CSX, but I suppose those hoppers could have been of the former Michigan Central RR.) Who's gonna know? aussie
