Backwoods NE in Florida

[vinceg]

Great job. Really love the colors.

[Janbouli]

Wow , great stone coloring, looks real.

[jerryrbeach]

John,


Wonderful work on the rocks.  I'm really looking forward to seeing them finished and installed on the layout.

[GPdemayo]

Great looking rocks John.....

[ReadingBob]

Excellent looking rocks.     They're going to look great on the layout!

[S&S RR]

John


Your stone work looks great! I know you're having fun with this. It shows in the level of detail.  Fantastic!

[S&S RR]

John


My Grandson is sitting on my lap looking at your layout with me.  He says "Papa we should go see this mans layout".  I say "he lives in Florida".  His eyes get real big and he says "that's where Mickey Mouse lives".  Sounds like a road trip!

[fsmcollector67]

John,
Rock work looks great...

Loren...

[BandOGuy]

John,
Just catching up with your progress.
Your scenery rocks!

[sdrees]

I went to the clinic in Denver, 2017 put on by Bragdon and he sold me on his system.  You just reinforced my decision.  Nice job on the scenery.

[jimmillho]

Awesome looking rock work John.

Jim

[cuse]

Thanks everybody, for the comments. Hopefully, today, I'll figure out how to "meld" the two together with an additional casting. I've got a few extra that I made just to have...knowing that I can heat them up with a heat gun and bend them to fit in place. I'll make sure I take a "before" picture of the gap between the two big pieces that I built in the garage. It will take some magic to recreate the series of mishaps and false starts that ended up as really nice coloring...honestly, that's always been my system for scenery 

[cuse]

got the rock faces on the layout (built in the garage)...now to try to "meld" them with a "casting graft" and somehow recreate the serious of accidents, mishaps, and false starts that resulted in the coloring. Then, I'll mix up some Ground Goop (my simplified version-paint, white glue, and Sculptamold) and things will move pretty quickly on this side of the backdrop. At that point, I'll have no excuse to not start on a kit ...I've got a spot reserved for Sierra West's Woodcutters' Shack on the far right. I've also got to do the roof on the small station I assembled and abandoned a few years ago....Nothing inspires progress like progress.


John

[cuse]

You can see in the pics that I removed the upper facia (valance?) to avoid knocking off all the trees that I painstakingly planted. I figured I would replace it with a bigger piece because I seem to be a couple inches short for perfect viewing height. I always tend to see the underside of the top of the layout...I may just get some platform shoes instead.


Yesterday, my NE Brownstone stone arch bridge (see Dave E.'s thread) arrived. That will, eventually, go over the river to the left of the rocks. One thing I learned from ACL Tom is to switch it up. I get burnt out quick on ANY facet of the hobby. So, I'll probably go from mountains to landscaping to building a structure before building another mountain.


John

[PRR Modeler]

Really nice rock work John.