Rainier Great Western Const Update

I always ask for others opinions too. But I find the shots from my phone reveal a lot. So I take random shots during the entire process. Most get deleted as I change the scene, but you see things in pics your eye just ignores.

 

Tuesday's work session was focused on a problem with the double crossover in the main staging yard. Turns out some gaps were cut in the switch that shouldn't have been. By evenings end Ed had locos running across it without issue, but it took a lot of jumper wires to keep the juice flowing.

As for me, I worked on more trees and installation of rock outcroppings. Here are a couple of pics of the helix tunnel scene.

First the rocks, before coloring, are placed in various spots for fit.



Then we took the rocks outside, used our spray technique to give them the right color combinations and then back in place.



Next week we anticipate a lot more progress, so stay tuned. Thanks for checking in. M

 

See post 104.

 

One note to the spray technique, for the black color, we don't use the 16:1 (water:color) mix, we use 32:1. The black is used sparingly, as it tends to overshadow the other colors.

 

We're just getting old Ken.

 

Always figured you for a pirate.

 

This past Tuesday was a great night at the RGW. We welcomed my father-in-law Mike Petty, a celebrated armored modeler in his own right. You can often see his work in Finescale Modeler magazine. Mike decided he wanted to improve the look of our scotch broom bushes with bright yellow airbrushed paint.

Here is Mike applying the color to the lichen.



And the before and after:





And the mountain scene I've been developing:





A huge improvement by any measure.

Scott, began work on the piling platform for our lumber mill. He is shown here taking measurements.



Here is his progress so far, with more to go; including leveling and painting.



I'm very pleased with both of these updates. Part two of this update is in the next post.

 

In addition to the items in the last post we celebrate the first layer of ground foam along the Cascade foothills. Doug took on this effort and the results are outstanding. Here is a series of pics, moving from the southwest corner to the southeast.











And really pleased with the first coat of paint on the snowshed.



More next week, thanks for checking in.

 

Totally agree Ken, I wasn't happy that the yellow foam was such a muted color and not bright like the plant's flower actually is.

 

Thank you Alan. I think Ross & Jenny Waters are fantastic. I highly recommend their work and find the subscription well worth the small investment of money. Best part for me was knowing my 9 yr old, Bradley, was running all of the trains in the video portion. Building the RGW is as much about sharing it with him as anything else. M

 

Here are a few shots from last Tuesday's work party.

Here is an update on Wain's golf scene. We are using photo backdrop from Maplewood GC that is adjacent to the mainline. Wain cut foam to create a 3d look for the green on the left side and the tee box on the right. He then used curtain fabric that simulates fine grain, closer cut grasses on those two areas. There is also a bunker carved into the middle.



Doug added more green ground foam near Maple Valley:



Scott put in posts for the guardrail along our SW corner road scene:



Yours truly added more lichen on a bare portion of the mainline:



We'll paint the lichen yellow next week.

Thanks for checking in. M