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In this photo, the Woodland Scenics plaster impregnated cloth has been applied. With Sculpt-a-mold, I have attached one rock casting in the face of the hill above the trestle and some if not all the rock work has been completed. My rock work is made from Sculpt-a-mold, I love this product and have used many bags of the stuff on my layout. In essence, how I use it, is pretty easy; but somewhat time consuming to do. How I do it is to apply a batch of Sculpt-a-mold to a small area, maybe 8 inches by 8 inches. Once the place being sculpted is applied, I then take a putty knife; or, a table knife and carve strata and grooves in it. Generally in a patch as big as I've described the strata pretty much all goes in one direction. When I say carve, the Sculpt-a-mold is still wet and mold-able so maybe it's mold as opposed to carved. I actually find that as the Sculpt-a-mold starts to dry-out it becomes better for doing this detailing; however, once I have applied it, I am constantly working it. I would suggest using this process on small out-crops first, before tackling a large area such as what I am showing. I mold cracks, crevices, gobs and strata. The strata is made with a chopping motion and like I said, all of it going in mostly one direction. Between the 8 X 8 patches I've described, slight changes in the direction the strata is oriented adds interest and looks realistic. Like I said, the best way to attempt this process is to do it to a small out-crop; or, rock face. Take your time, take a breath and step back and look at what you've done. Do it a few times and eventually it will come to you.
Do you find that you have derailments in the staging area with any regularity??Staging Yard Control Panel:
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Essentially the purpose of this panel is to control the seven storage tracks here in staging. Again, you can see some of the turnout toggles here in this case, If the toggle is pointing into the storage track, the power is ON. If it is pointing away, the power is OFF. Here you can see, as previously mentioned, the room above the trains is wholly inadequate! If a derailment occurs in the staging yard, all trains in front of the derailed train must be driven out of staging, to gain access. I have to be overly cautious when entering or leaving staging. Where I to do over, I would have staging on drawer slides so I could pull it out to work on; or, just have staging out in the open.
Do you find that you have derailments in the staging area with any regularity??
I've only gotten about half way thru this subject thread and must go off onto another effort at this point. I will return.
But a quick question first.
Do you or anyone else visiting here own one of those Bachmann 4-8-4 locos they came out with loaded with DCC,....item #50804 ??
I have several that I have yet to unpack, and just wondered about their running capabilities??
Brian