Clearwater Valley Railway Co.

[Larry C]

Ron well done!

[Philip]

 

[Jerry]

Nice job Ron.  Glad you saved the tree!!!

Jerry

[elwoodblues]

Thanks for the kind words Curt, Rick, Larry, Philip and Jerry. 

Jerry, it seems that the contractor involved in the tunnel widening is environmentally friendly.   

[elwoodblues]

Managed some work on the layout today so this installment is called....

The terraforming continues. . . . 

Before I get into today's progress



I've been curious to see how it would look with a train coming out of the tunnel into the staging yard area so I made a mock-up of the tunnel opening using a 1" thick piece of pink foam.  When complete this will be a rock face, unless I change my mind. 





On to this evenings work.  I decided to put down a base layer of Scuptamold.  I have never used this product before so I mixed up small batches and applied it to the base.  What is shown here is 2 batches.





A few batches later the base layer is complete.





I "planted" the bridge piers into the Scuptamold so that once the Scuptamold is set the piers will drop in place once the base scenery is done.





A had a couple of small rock castings that I decided to plant into the Sculpamold to give a little variety to the scenery.





A close-up of a couple of the rock castings.

[elwoodblues]

I carefully removed the bridges so that I can work on the scenery without worrying about damaging the bridges.

That's it for now, thanks for looking in.

[Jerry]

Looks like your off to good start.

You are going to get rid of the pink!!!!! 

Jerry

[Rick]

Ron, that's a very interesting tunnel opening.
I'm interested in seeing how you finish the rest of the rocks behind it.
Sculptamold is good stuff.
I like where you're going with the bridge base.

[PRR Modeler]

Ron nice job with the sculptamold. I've never used this product before either. Are you going to have a water feature under the bridge?

[friscomike]

Howdy Ron,

Nice job installing the bridge in the terraformed landscape. Like Rick, I'm curious about the tunnel entry.

Have fun,
mike

[elwoodblues]

Looks like your off to good start.

You are going to get rid of the pink!!!!! 

Jerry

Thanks Jerry,

Not sure why the picture is "pink" as the original picture isn't pink.    Maybe I'll never be able to completely get rid of the pink.

[elwoodblues]

Ron, that's a very interesting tunnel opening.
I'm interested in seeing how you finish the rest of the rocks behind it.
Sculptamold is good stuff.
I like where you're going with the bridge base.

Thanks Rick,

I plan to build a mountain where the tunnel portal is.  Seeing as the Scuptamold is still not dry I'll work on it today.  After using the Scuptamold, I'm liking it.

[elwoodblues]

Ron nice job with the sculptamold. I've never used this product before either. Are you going to have a water feature under the bridge?

Thanks Curt,

I do plan to add a water feature under the bridge.  If you plan to do scenery wgere plaster is involved I would recommend using Sculptamold.

[elwoodblues]

Howdy Ron,

Nice job installing the bridge in the terraformed landscape. Like Rick, I'm curious about the tunnel entry.

Have fun,
mike

Thanks Mike,

As for the tunnel entry, stay tuned. 

[Larry C]

Ron great start with the terraforming. I've never used sculpamold either; I usually just use drywall plaster in small applications.