Hi Shop Dwellers, it's 35*F and cloudy with a NW wind of 11mph sustained and gusting to 25mph, here in central MD. Sure am glad I decided to do all my outdoor chores yesterday! As always,
thank you everyone for the "likes" and comments on my Sunday post.
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IBKen - Like the photos. Nice progress. Glad you were able to find hydrocal. I located a distributor years ago in Billings and picked up two fifty pound bags. Just have a little left now.
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Thanks
Chet, I'd love to be able to find even a 25lb bag from a local source, but I'm not sure about what its generic equivalent is called[?] Maybe then I could do a more "intelligent" online search...
About 2 metres by 2 metres. I like painting the figures my neighbour will do the electric bit. I think it's oo scale.
Kellyann, welcome to the forum! With your limited space situation I would strongly recommend Carl Arendt's website. His specialty is so-called "micro layouts" and he's done some world-class ones, check it out:
http://www.carendt.com/micro-layout-design-gallery/single-level-micro-layouts/
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Once again, my layout work has been paralyzed by what I call a "crisis of imagination." I mentioned last time, that I realized I would be better off if I did the scenery on the hardest-to-reach corner area before covering anything closer. This photo diagram will [hopefully] explain what I'm talking about:
That area inside the
red trapezoid is what's giving me fits. I'm not sure whether to put the rear sides of some buildings along the backdrop, or just some bushes and/or trees. I'll be planting Static Grass inside the bright green spot just above the interlocking tower. But I don't know if I should do what Lance Mindhiem calls "negative space" with undeveloped, overgrown industrial real estate, or put in a gravel driveway leading to that printing industry (gray building) at the far left.
One thing I
do know is that I need something in that orange-outlined 'X' area to cover - or at least obfuscate - the protruding corner of the printing company building, to hide its small size and lack of depth (it's from a Walthers 'flat' kit). Maybe a water tower, like this one:
https://www.modeltrainstuff.com/walthers-ho-933-2826-city-water-tower-silver-built-up/ This wouldn't completely hide the closer corner, but it would make it less plainly visible. Or ... <Lightbulb moment>
maybe I could replace it with a leftover 2-story DPM warehouse that's longer , but easier to hide with just a few trees? Here's a photo of it on my old layout (14yrs ago):
..that would be the cheaper solution, but first I'll have to find it in the attic, and bring it down to see if it will
actually fit in that tight spot.