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Without any kind of warning device, the local commuter train is likely to strike village traffic! Shōgatsu has a road, or part of one. The as-of-yet unnamed village (suggestions, anyone?) needs a road connection to the outside world—trains run on only a very irregular schedule and often bypass the station. Building the road [...] Plastic screen retaining wall and abutment. Not literally, of course. In addition to planting hundreds of trees (and yet, the mountains are still rather bare!) I’ve been constructing retaining walls and abutments. The process is really simple. I find an area of the layout that needs a retaining wall; I’ve left these areas [...] …but Came Down a Mountain. Nope, too long to have the right wittiness about it. I’ll keep on tryin’ though. I couldn’t find any more RFTs, so I reverted to that old standby, Student Life (warning: PDF linkage). At a total of two sheets per issue, it took larcenous numbers to complete the job, [...] The time has come to begin filling in the skeleton with newspaper flesh. As you can see from the photo (sorry about the poor quality! Had to use my laptop’s webcam), I’ve added some more foamcore buttressing so that the topography of the two layout halves will match precisely. Kashirigi suggests making little [...] Update 27 April 2008: I’ve added some more photos below. Well, the static grass idea didn’t really work. Time to think of something new. Thankfully, static grass glued with PVA glue onto a glossy surface comes up really easy, so nothing was really lost—except a small amount of now used static grass, oh, and [...] 合格！ I have over the past couple of days learned some interesting things about Woodland Scenics ballast, and how to paint shadows into it. Tell me what you think. Unshaded on the left, shaded on the right. As if you couldn’t tell. Yeah, it’s glossy, I know. The ballast was fixed with a mixture [...] I’m new to model railroading, but I’m not new to modeling generally. Most of my hours have been spent on wargaming, painting little tin soldiers—usually members of the Crimson Fist Chapter of Space Marines. Hello, my name is Geek. Anyway, these figures are tiny and incredibly detailed. The thing is, when you’re standing on [...] |
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