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….............................--- Scenery to Track Elevator – Part 2 ---

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Continuing on with the scenery on the upper level going to the track elevator ……...

The areas on the end still need to be built up higher. I’m pretty happy with the center area but want to add a little more height there to a couple of the mesa tops there.

I’m lucky that the layout is in a large area (shop is 27’x40’ with 10 &12 foot ceilings). With the large air volume lingering fumes aren’t much of a problem. Still at times the smoke/fumes when using the hot knife seem to find me. I’ll then use the 5v USB fan to move the air away from where I’m cutting the foam. It has 3 speeds and usually the lowest does the trick.

When roughing the foam is finished there will be a lot of final cutting of the rock faces and then Spackle will be applied followed by the painting.

There is only a little over 10” (254 mm) between the upper and lower levels. With N scale it appears to be more. The rock faces don’t look near as tall until you place a loco near them for perspective. .

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It will be nice when the scenery is finished and there are tracks here and I can reproduce this image of the scene.

I’ll wait on finishing the area to the right until I’ve finished roughing in the foam to and from the coal mine complex that is out of sight to the right above.

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I’ll make a turnout from a Fast Tracks template for above. Nice thing about making turnouts is you can make one to fit the scene and not have to make a scene fit a turnout.

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At 81 I’m slowing down and can only work on this section where I’m stepping on and off that platform about 4 hours a day. A couple in the morning and a couple in the afternoon.

I think 3-4 days and I’ll have all the foam in the area above over to the track elevator out of view to the left. Then it will be Spackling and paint time. Then need some clouds, mesas and distant mountains painted on the backdrop. I hope to find someone from the art program at the local college here to do that but will try it myself if that doesn’t materialize.

To be continued…....

A link to this whole build ( HERE ).

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