The Prince William County Model Railroad Club assisted in building a layout at a local train hobby shop, the Rip Track in Woodbridge, Virginia. Unfortunately, the Rip Track was forced to close and the layout was removed. The photos and drawings provide an excellent step-by-step guide to building a medium sized layout. Designed by Brion, club members are providing their talents and expertise to bring the plan to reality. The Rip Track provided the materials for the layout construction. Other than basic lumber, all train related materials are off-the-shelf products. Construction started on September 5, 2002 and we achieved our goal of having trains running by Thanksgiving

SESSION TEN

Fascia and prep for Water

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This is the track plan as drawn by Brion. The plan calls for a wide variety of scenery and construction methods. Visitors were able to see many different aspects of model railroading. The plan provides for the ability to convert the layout from HO scale to On3 by changing structures and rolling stock.

A hardboard fascia has been applied around the edges of the layout. The board is carefully curved and afixed with screws. The screws were then covered with plastic wood, to be sanded when dry.
This is the right side of the layout, showing the curved fascia.
	Here's the back side of the fascia showing how it is easily mounted to the L-girder benchwork.
	Another view of the back side of the fascia.
We continue to follow the progress of our future pond. The fascia board is cut with a jigsaw to fit the contour of the scenery. There's also been some additional shading added with dry brush acrylics. There will be water soon.
	The riverbed has been painted in preparation to adding the "water". We'll be using a couple of differing techniques for the "water" on our layout. Since the "water" will be clear, we needed to paint the bottom of the river...darker in the middle, lighter on the sides.
The scenery is looking so good and it's so temping...Zack just couldn't resist hitting a a few drives. Good form.

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