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Major Earthworks Complete

D.E. Goodman-Wilson — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:47:08 +0000

The mountains, complete

I’m back, more or less! I hope all had a great winter holiday.

As you can see, plastering is now 100% complete. A few final comments on the plastering process: Some things I have learned. Bare plaster soaks up acrylic paint, and mixes with it. Painting plaster mountains requires that, [...]

The Hillock that Thinks Itself a Mountain

D.E. Goodman-Wilson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:09:48 +0000

Again, progress. What can I say? Sorry I didn’t get this up yesterday: We accomplished all this in a Sunday afternoon. Next weekend we hope to finish with the plaster cloth, and to begin detailing in earnest.

I also got in a Tomix Cleaning Car this weekend. The short version is that [...]

Addition of Foliage

D.E. Goodman-Wilson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:08:23 +0000

I’ve only put a little foliage down on part of the layout, but there’s just enough to begin experimenting with model train photography. Here we see EF66-28 emerge from a tunnel on the…well, I guess I have to make up a name for this line, don’t [...]

I Beheld the Mountains, and, Lo, They Looked Surprisingly Good

D.E. Goodman-Wilson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:53:31 +0000

Perhaps I’m getting a bit ahead of myself here, but this is about where things stand. We’ve got mountains (sort of), and tunnel portals (mostly), and foliage (but just around this one tunnel portal). Things are looking good! The portal is a Greenmax, model no. 14-2, lightly weathered with India ink. The foliage [...]

Shogatsu: Festive Foam is Go!

D.E. Goodman-Wilson — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:41:56 +0000

White and red are the colors of the Japanese New Year, Shōgatsu, and (for now) our layout reflects those colors in white and pink foam. Amy and I have decided to name it simply “Shōgatsu”. Anyway, this weekend we have significant real construction!

I’ve always been rather intimidated by those 8′x4′ sheets of [...]

Shogatsu Layout (正月のレイアウト)

D.E. Goodman-Wilson — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:10:06 +0000

Last year, my wife Amy made a Christmas layout around our Christmas tree. It was made from a cheap second-hand H0 set, and lots of fake snow sheets and batting, and some terribly out-of-scale dollar-store Christmas village houses. It was terrific. We both loved it. In fact, it was that project that got me [...]