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| 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 FourteenWhere's my pants?Click on any image to enlarge. |
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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 |
What can you do with an old pair of corduroy pants? Make an HO farmer's field. Brion of the Rip Track recently showed us how to make a very nice, neat and orderly field of crops from an old piece of corduroy. The photos at right show the before and after of our new field. |
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The material is first soaked in a base color, brown in this case, and then applied to the layout. The green for crops is simply dabbed on. The prevailing opinion is this is a field of young corn. |
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Since corduroy is available in different "wales" we are able to have more than one crop on our HO farm. At left is the before and after photos using wide wale corduroy. |
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Of course, you can experiment with different materials and colors. We think we have a healthy crop of HO soybeans. |
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Club members have been busy making trees of several species. Here's the backdrop for our future logging camp on the left side of the layout. |
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Out favorite photo spot looks even better with the trees in the background. That's an On30 train rounding the curve and heading for our trestle. |
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Our small station is ready to be placed on the layout. It's been dressed up for the holidays with presents. Looks like they are large HO gifts. |
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During a work session, Robin showed an interesting and easy technique for making HO corrugated metal for roofs and such. Using Silver metal tape, a block of wood with patterned styrene and a large clamp, he produced great-looking "metal" sheets in seconds. The photo shows the bare tape on the right with the weathered final result on the left.
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