Model Train Layouts PDF

Model Train Layouts PDF
Here they are. Hope you like them.

I have also tagged on some of the tips sent to me from fellow modellers I have quite a collection
now. Ill share some more with you when Ive done some more layouts.
Of course, Im biased, but the best model railway resource I have found online is:
http://www.modelrailwaylayoutspdf.com/tips/
And just some of the tips that come pouring in

(Let me know yours al@modelrailwaylayoutspdf.com)
Best
Al
I was able to use (non-clump), kitty litter for ballast on my HO layout. I know the clumping
product does not work..... I tried it once.
Another idea that was given to me by a train shop owner was how to make chain-link fence.
You take screen wire and cut it at a 45 degree angle. Put some piano wire (pins) in the
ground and you have fence post....walaaa.
Hope this helps, Rod
We use a flower called Sedum. when small-- looks like little trees. Spray with glue and dip in
the " green stuff" and then carfefully repeat the process. Pine trees for the upper region-- we
check out the craft stores -- like after Christmas and buy " sprigs of fake pine and little trees
from the dispaly villages. For the higher mountains we start with a base of pink styrofoams
used for insulation. Its cheap and can be carved with an xacto knife. A 4X8 sheet is about
$3 pounds UK. If you make a mistake you can fill in with plaster. WE hinge our tunnels so
we can get back to a train wreck.
Nsked
My 009 layout includes a forest section made from the plug-in "branches" of an artificial
Christmas tree. The section contains around 60 trees and took less than an hour!
Richard
I have always had good luck using drywall compound and fiber pink insulation or fiber paper
insulation blow mixed together to form mountains and ridges.
I shred the fiberglass pink insulation mix it in joint compound and clump on a screen or form,
let dry, paint and age. Pour some plaster & paris rocks from molds and work in the
arrangement for some sharper rock like surfaces to give good depth between the two
textures. Also the great foam insulation in a can can be used to get both smooth like peaks
or volcano lava look to a table design or when dry rough ti up and take some chunks out to
give a less smooth like appearance.!
Michael J. Samol
Best tip is - give it up NOW. It's addicitve and bankrupting!!

Ron
ACCESS INSIDE TUNNELS - Take an old picture frame.

Discard glass, just keep frame and backing
Integrate into the scenery above the tunnel FACE DOWN
The backing sheet can be taken off and instant access is achieved.
OK there is an oblong break along the backing sheet edge but this can be masked by
bushes or a fence on the near sides.
Far sides can be hidden behind a ridge.
Alan
My only scenery suggestion is 1/8" thick cork, which is only brown in colour.
It comes in rolls 18" x 1 or more yards at most smallbox hardware stores.
When there is a canyon wall (long vertical jags of rock) or rolling grasses, cork shapes it
best. Smooth boulders are much easier than jagged ones. Cork will take any shape that
you can imagine, regardless of the distance to be covered.
The magic twist to changing a flat sheet of cork into any terrain is water. A cookie pan or
appropriately sized (flatten in just enough [part of the experiments] water for best
absorption. A stee,l not teflon, PAN works best for cutting, or just scoring, the sheet.
Experimentation with the local cork will aid in shaping different effects. However after
mastering the limitations of your 1/8" cork sheet, cutting the sheet in the drained
excess water will maintain the work area's dryness.
NOTE: Soaked sheets fold (rolling-type folds) or bend (crisp accordian-shaped bends) over
full-lengths or short-lined sections. This is how scoring atop or beneath the sheet helps.
Plan the terrain for best results, according to previous results.
All in all, no ground display is beyond this material. The trick to hills, as eventually with other
landscape, is the DRYING. You determine the paint and painting time. While the sheet is
wet, place it how, not where, you want it. Secure the shape's position and let it dry (by air or
by lamp's heat or by both.)Additional scores or cuts can achieve tighter corners/better
curves.
As for rocks, the cutting of slits or removal of ungiving folds/shaping helps attain the nearest
smoothness. Scoring aids sharp foldings, as it does on construction paper, for the
production of jagged boulders. The latter is excellent for changing rolling landscapes (before
green grass) into rougher terrain; blending boulder bottoms with supporting cork base can
produce realistic structures.
Why use cork when paper-mache is familiar and reliable? LIGHTNESS.
Depending on how you fashion a bottom to this HOLLOW STRUCTURE, affects its
portability. Hollowed WITH CRIMPED INWARD EDGES can suffice for careful transport.
Such crimping (inward edge wherever openess results at the back or bottom) strengthens all
shapes, but beware --- the bigger gaps influence flimsiness.
Stiff steel wire glued inside crimped edges guaranty longevity of the shape.
Where buildings are to stand atop any part of this cork, reinforcements inside the shape are
required. They can be stand-alone topless cones or part of the wire skeleton mentioned
above.
I have many more modelling tips that I will share with you. Hope youve enjoyed these.
If you have, I suspect youll enjoy my favourite model railway here:
http://www.modelrailwaylayoutspdf.com/tips/

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Here they are. Hope you like them.

And just some of the tips that come pouring in

Best tip is - give it up NOW. It's addicitve and bankrupting!!

ACCESS INSIDE TUNNELS - Take an old picture frame.

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