Adding Another Mountain

[Larry]

Been doing some work on a Foam mountain to be placed where I took out the Refinery. It will be about 15ft long when finished. & about 8 inches deep & about 18" tall give or take a few inches. An automobile tunnel at both ends.
The initial glueing all of the blocks of Pink & Green Foam together took about a week to dry. I also attached them together w/wood Skew sticks so the foam wouldn't bow. I use to use long nails & then pull them out when the glue had set, but, now the skew sticks work a lot better. You don't have to take them out.
Then the other day I started grinding down the foam w/a 4"Angle grinder.
Then I did some more work w/a dremel tool & then cut slots for the Pinebark & glued those in. I figure about 3 more days & all of those will be dry.
Then fill in all the gaps w/latex caulk, flat black wash, color the rest, add foliage(oops getting ahead of myself) more later.

[joed2323]

lol before i read your post i just kept looking at your mountain pics, i kept wondering why you put little turds all over... haha now i realize its just pine bark

You have a wonderful layout btw, i hope some day i can make my layout look half as good as yours

[Larry]

Originally Posted by joed2323

lol before i read your post i just kept looking at your mountain pics, i kept wondering why you put little turds all over... haha now i realize its just pine bark

You have a wonderful layout btw, i hope some day i can make my layout look half as good as yours

Most mountains I put together don't ever look like a mtn. until I get about 2 thirds of finishing them. I've even had comments that that thing is ugly & doesn't even have the looks of a mountain. Then when it's finished, a diff. idea. I hope this one turns out better than the others. Never know till it's finished.

[joed2323]

Atleast you get a A for effort right?

I wasnt trying to bad mouth your mountain in any way, i like to see things come together from start to finish, i have some hills on my layout you can build for me
Are you taking a trip to the u-p of michigan soon??? j/k

[Larry]

Originally Posted by joed2323

Atleast you get a A for effort right?

I wasnt trying to bad mouth your mountain in any way, i like to see things come together from start to finish, i have some hills on my layout you can build for me
Are you taking a trip to the u-p of michigan soon??? j/k

Last time I was in Michigan was 1994 on a 1 week vacation in Cassopolis.

[Larry]

Did a Flat Black wash on the mountains this morning. Next is the colors for rock patterns, etc.

[dave1943au]

Theres more than one way to skin a cat Larry, I have never seen mountains done that way before and I am sure they will look great when finished.

That is the beauty of our great hobby, so many different ways to do things.

[NYW&B]

As was mentioned upstream, it tends to be difficult to judge how well scenery is turning out only mid-way through construction. Certainly, until one gets the finished surface detailing (dirt, bushes, trees) in place, the degree of realism and sucess is always somewhat in question. I tend to think that your effort will look quite good if you add sufficient groundcover around the protruding bark chips, leaving only a small amount of their surface exposed.

Personally, I've had a lot of success simply carving the foam blocks that make up the hillside/mountain itself to form my rocky outcropings. It's messy work, but it allows complete modeler control over the final appearance, as illustrated below.





NYW&B

[joed2323]

wow if thats foam, you carved those rocks into, that looks amazing NYW&B

[IowaFarmBoy]

Larry,

Is that some sort of water channel that runs up and down near the center with pine bark angling towards it on either side?