First snow, post mountain.

What do you do if a train gets stuck inside your mountain?

This access door is about 12″ high and 36″ long, allowing me to easily “help” a train that has problems inside the tunnel. It’s formed from insulating foam, cut to shape and painted for UV protection.

This somewhat fuzzy picture (sorry) shows the “snow” I added using latex paint and crushed glass for sparkles. The glitter is too hard to photograph, but it looks nice.

Here are some images of the “almost done” mountains.

Here’s a distance shot.

Continue reading Mountains Near Completion →

Here is the completed shell

Here’s the first day of working on the shell.

Continue reading Mountain Progress →

Here’s the first step: all framed in pencil rod and covered with chicken wire (I know they don’t call it that anymore–but I do)

I’ve thought for a while now about adding a mountain (and tunnel) to my layout. The problem is, this is Germany (or Ruritania, or Graustark) in the 1930s, so a southwestern U.S.-style mountain won’t do. I need an alp.

My current idea is to make a frame of rebar, cover it with wire mesh, and then use concrete-impregnated burlap to cover it in a sort of concrete version of paper mache.