Superior & Seattle Railroad Build (Volume 4) Started 8/14/21

[postalkarl]

Hey John:

WOW!!! all I can say is beautiful. I just love the stonework.

Karl

[S&S RR]

Hey John:

WOW!!! all I can say is beautiful. I just love the stonework.

Karl

Karl


Thank you, I'm looking forward to having it framed with some scenery.

[postalkarl]

Hey John:

You are quite welcome.

Karl

[carl b]

All around nice work John.

[Bernd]

Love that roundhouse and engine erection shop and the scenery looks great.

Bernd

[S&S RR]

All around nice work John.

Carl


Thank you for the kind words. I will be documenting the steps I go through to complete the scenery.

[S&S RR]

Love that roundhouse and engine erection shop and the scenery looks great.

Bernd

Bernd


Thank you for the encouraging words and for following along on my journey.

[S&S RR]

I made a little progress on the scenery in the Eagles Nest Yard.  After the dirt dried I added a layer of moss green fine turf.  Next, I added some late summer 2mm static grass. After that dried I used a vacuum cleaner to remove the loose stuff and actually remove the static grass in random patches.  This is supposed to look like a railroad yard with weeds and grass beside the tracks, not a lawn. Finally, for today, in this section, I added a layer of beige 4.5 mm static grass. This will be vacuumed after it dries.  Here is a few pictures of the process so far. You will also notice a few patches of weeds and tuff grass added.  After the vacuuming process I will be adding a lot more of these types of materials.

[S&S RR]

Lesson Learned:  I tried using alcohol as a wetting agent, as per the instructions on the bottle of ballast cement that I bought for a trial.  I did a small section of track in front of the locomotive works and then used wet water, like I always have, for the rest of the track in this section.  So far it looks like the glue is reacting in some way with the alcohol and drying white instead of clear.  We will see how it looks after it has longer to dry.  Here are a few pictures to show what is going on.


You can see the difference immediately when I switched to wet water instead of the alcohol.


The instructions on the bottle.







The product label.











A picture showing the results.  The foreground is where I used the wet water.

[postalkarl]

Hey John:

Beautiful pictures as always. Keep em coming. Stonework is awesome.

Karl

Karl

[S&S RR]

Hey John:

Beautiful pictures as always. Keep em coming. Stonework is awesome.

Karl

Karl

Karl


Thank you, we have a lot of glue drying tonight. I plan on moving on to the next step in the morning.  I also added the dirt to another section beside the roundhouse. I will be moving from section to section waiting for the glue to dry between steps.

[cuse]

good luck with the glue. I love the engine house and the surrounding scenery, particularly, the tall weeds around the siding.


john

[PaulS]

Coming along very nicely John !!


The scenery really adds a lot to your already impressive roundhouse, really accentuating the beautiful stone work !!


Looking forward to your continued progress on the S&S !!
--Paul

[S&S RR]

good luck with the glue. I love the engine house and the surrounding scenery, particularly, the tall weeds around the siding.


john

John


Thank you for stopping by the thread and the encouraging words.  On the glue front, I did a test with using alcohol for a wetting agent with Matte Medium and it does the same thing. I'm not sure if anyone ever tried the instructions on the bottle from MicroMart.   Anyway, only wet water will be used on the S&S RR.

[S&S RR]

Coming along very nicely John !!


The scenery really adds a lot to your already impressive roundhouse, really accentuating the beautiful stone work !!


Looking forward to your continued progress on the S&S !!
--Paul

Paul


Thank you for your kind comments and for stopping by the thread. It is amazing how much better structures look with realistic scenery to frame them. I will be adding many more bushes, trees, weeds, and grasses to this area before moving on to the next area.