Cypress Creek Railroad

[postalkarl]

HeySteve:

All is looking just beautiful. Keep up the good work.

Karl

[SteveCuster]

Thanks everyone!

Been a little bit slow lately but I've been making a little progress on the station area.


I started filling in the scenery in this area.


This is a before of some of the area.


The station is glued in place and I've begun tying the scenery into it.


This shot gives a little better idea of how the area flows together.


Now that I've got the basic scenery done behind it I can start installing Cartwrights into it's home.


I added a piece of 2" foam to fill in the area next to Cartwrights. The track will run across it of course but I need something else in the area between the double tracks and the Cartwrights siding..something to think about.


I couldn't get the foam to match the track height using any combo of foam blocks so I ended up using 4 paint stirrers glued together to give me the correct height.


I also glued the water tank/bucket coaling station in it's home as well.


Before I added the water tank/bucket coaling station I put in this little fence scene between road and Chippy Hollow. It's still wet in this picture. Using foam as base makes it really easy to build one of these fences. I stick a toothpick every 4-5 scale feet and stick a scale 4x4 into the hole with some glue then when it dries I add the cross pieces.


Another overall shot with the newly added structures.

I've had all these dioramas sitting around my workshop waiting to be damaged so I'm happy to get them in their homes.

I'm still working on Crocker Bros which will sit to the right of Chippy Hollow a feet inches down once that's done I'll start figuring out what smaller buildings I need to add to fill in the areas around Cartwrights and on both the front and rear of the double track.

Thanks for following along. Hopefully the layout photos make sense of the overall layout.

[ACL1504]

Steve,

Appreciate the update. The overall view of the layout gives one a better view of how it looks, which is fantastic.

Tom 

[deemery]

I always appreciate room views, that show benchwork, aisles, unfinished parts.  I learn from observing, and I actually find it inspiring to see real layouts and how they evolve. 


dave

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking great, Steve.

Beautiful finishing.

Cheers, Mark.

[SteveCuster]

Thanks Tom, Dave and Mark. I really appreciate it!

Before I started the layout I spent a good amount of time trying to find photos of layouts in progress. It's really helpful to see the steps that get a scene from A to B especially the messy parts when it really doesn't look like much.

[Keep It Rusty]

Looking mighty fine, Steve!

Always enjoy checking on this thread.

[SteveCuster]

Thanks Craig!

[NKP768]

Awesome modeling Steve

Doug

[sdrees]

These are terrific pictures of your layout Steve and there is some very nice modeling and scenery.  Great!

[PaulS]

Agree with all the other comments Steve,
Wonderful modeling and beautiful scenes.  You have a great eye for a realistic flow, coloring and texture to your structures and scenery !!
And thanks as well for the pictures of the in process scenes!  As you noted there is an awful lot to learn and understand in your approach to modeling a scene with depth and elevation changes.
Thanks again for sharing and I will continue to follow along with your Cypress Creek RR progress,
All the best,
--Paul

[postalkarl]

Hey Steve:

Everything looks just beautiful. I can't wait to see your RR.

Karl

[mario1]

Morning Steve
Just went through your build thread. Very  nice work. Great progress. Love all the pictures.
Keep em coming. 
Mario
FW&RRry

[Jerry]

Steve looks awesome.  Like I've said before everything just fits together just perfectly.


Love this RR.


Jerry

[SteveCuster]

Thanks everyone!