wheeler1963
Aurora & Portland Owner
All comments are welcome
Now maybe all of these long dead end tracks make sense??!! Half powered, half dummy. Just sitting on deadline tracks either waiting for purchase/rebuild/scraping etc etc. I did a piece with staples came out pretty good. Ballast/concrete/dirt road should hide all of the staples.Y I K E S ! ! ! Are you going to junk yard ALL THOSE hundreds of locos !!!!??? What, are they all dummies ?? !! My god, that looks insane !!!
White glue for the cork.
Ok 2/3s of the layout is corked. Laid the track out to see how it all looks, not to bad to me.
The last 1/3 needs a lot of figuring out. First I will take the Allied Rail Rebuilders diorama apart tomorrow and see if I can't figure where to fit all of the older structures in.
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I did a search on Amazon, this came up. Matches the regular cork roadbed we all use perfectly.Where did you purchase your cork from? That's a great price.
I have a set up I actually like now. I need to remove everything now so I can vacuum and paint the cork.
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Well that depends......if you want to show different types of ballast etc or just have variations. But if you are asking my opinion I would paint it with primer- flat colors grey or even some spots of rust red/brown.....the thing is seeing cork brown is annoying to me. I like to paint it then I or you can save a ton of material and cost on ballast. It will still turn out great.James, do you think I need to paint all of the top of the cork in the yard area or will the ballast cover it being that it's all flat??
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Ok, all good points and much appreciated advice. I will probably tear the diorama apart as suggested earlier. It is just being a pain in my butt to get it fit in. One thing you are missing, A Switcher Junkyard.
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Think of LTEX in Ohio or NRE in Silvis Illinois
Next question for you guys, attaching the cork sheets, staples or glue??