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To cover up all the scrape marks I masked off the pad and airbrushed it with some Neutral Gray paint. I then sprayed some black at areas between the rails to simulate spillage and leaks. After the paint was dry I penciled in some expansion joints.
Here it is with the buildings temporarily in place. I still need to add some lights and the fuel tank, so I won't put them down permanently right now.
I did the same as you by making a thick layer and everything shrank, then you're stuck having to do lots of patching up.
I then needed to extend the area and used plaster of Paris and it was much easier.
I did the same as you by making a thick layer and everything shrank, then you're stuck having to do lots of patching up.
I then needed to extend the area and used plaster of Paris and it was much easier.
Tonight I finished up the fuel depot. It started with a kit from Busch. I had quite a few leftover parts from the maintenance facility so I decided to build a filling platform to make it a little more interesting. I made the piping from sprues and the handrails on the stairs are formed from wire.
For the decals I downloaded some warning sign images and printed them off on Testors decal paper. I also used some Krystal Klear to make the glass for the pumps (still a little wet in the pictures!).
Well I haven't done much on the layout this winter, but I did work on a couple of locomotives. One is an Athearn BNSF AC4400 that I picked up at our local train show, and the other is a Walthers Trainline VIA F40PH. I added sound decoders and operating ditch lights to both of them, and I also detailed the F40PH. For details you can go to the Projects page at my website.
Here are a couple of videos with the sounds from the SoundTraxx Economi decoders. First is the AC4400...
Hey Rick - both units have Digitrax SP53188B speakers, although I had to remove what I am assuming is a bass chamber portion of the speaker enclosure to fit it into the F40PH. The pictures of the install are on the website.
Well I still haven't accomplished much on the layout because I got another request to do up a locomotive for CEMR. Their GM is retiring at the end of April and they wanted to give him a retirement gift. This time they wanted an SD40. The unit they supplied was a Kato that was factory painted in BNSF colors but had been painted over in CIT blue.
I disassembled the unit and stripped all the paint with brake fluid.
Here is the painted and decalled finished product. For more details you can go to my website.
