Carlos Filipe Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 I started this layout quite a while but not continuously, so the project goes slow. I will exhibit it next month and still have some details to tackle with... I'm not going to bother you with research photos, you're all familiar with rural lines in Japan. I initially designed the layout with tighter curve radius to keep the size small (800 X 400mm). But when I started building it I felt tempted to enlarge a little bit. Now it measures 1050mm long. Forgot to check the dimensions of my apartment building elevator, now I'll have to go down 3 flights of stairs for just 50mm... The construction is done with insulating foam boards 30mm thick. I covered this base with laminated Das Pronto clay. 1 Link to comment
Carlos Filipe Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 The foam was covered with das Pronto. 1 Link to comment
Carlos Filipe Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 Made a croocked tree with wire and solder to "plant" it on top of the rock outcrop 1 Link to comment
Carlos Filipe Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 I felt the mountains to be not dramatically enough so I raised them using insulating foam un spray. It is visible on some photos the addition I made as the old contour is the one where bare rock visible. The addition was painted black as I intended to represent the thick forest with clumps of moss. I was looking for a scenic effect where the line seems to go up and down on very rugged terrain. So I carved a deep gorge for a river and a canyon where the line barely has space to fit. By hiding part of the line, I think I succeeded in creating the impression of a bigger area than it really is. 3 Link to comment
Carlos Filipe Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 After a false star with the forest canopy, a friend of mine helped me to find the way, so I could proceed with the scenery. The layout is encased in a very light box, built with 3mm plywood. Too fragile though. I'm not going to use so flimsy material for layouts this size. I mounted 2 circular fluorescent lamps inside and the lamps weigh more than the box itself... Now is sagging. 9 Link to comment
tossedman Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Wow! That looks fabulous! Amazing what can be done in such a small space. Thanks for sharing. Todd 1 Link to comment
Carlos Filipe Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share Posted May 9, 2015 It is nothing more than an oval with a staging yard under the mountain... Initially I though to build the station with 2 tracks, but that would require additional 200mm, I felt that it wasn't worth it. Link to comment
katoftw Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 (edited) N or HO? The wooden red bridge, where did you get it from? Edited May 9, 2015 by katoftw Link to comment
Densha Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 (edited) Looks great! It gives off a kind of dreamy atmosphere that I like. Edited May 9, 2015 by Densha 1 Link to comment
Carlos Filipe Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 (edited) The red foot bridge is a kit from Greenmax # 47-5. The box has more useful stuff. The rail bridge is Greenmax 2111 The track is Peco. To avoid lots of scratch building , I glued strips of plastic with cigarette aluminium foil wrapping that has a texture resembling thread metal plate. Under I glued short pieces of strip to replicate the close together ties, typical on bridges. The Layout is N scale Edited May 10, 2015 by Carlos Filipe Link to comment
velotrain Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 The blasphemy - using flextrack ;-) Very fine layout Carlos. Very European presentation style, in the spirit of Christopher Payne. Based on the background in the photos, you have quite a few other projects in larger scales. 1 Link to comment
cteno4 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Carlos, Wonderful little layout! Excellent scenery and detail! Kudos! Cheers, Jeff 1 Link to comment
Carlos Filipe Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 Sadly I'm a "diletant". I have too many projects lined up and if not enough I start many at the same time. The I get lost and production rate goes down. I even created within the group Modelismo in facebook a special feature I called Kitaholics. It is an attempt to motivate each others to build and finish the darn projects. It last for 3 month and the objective is to finish at least 3 projects per quarter of the year. It's going on kitaholics 2. https://www.facebook.com/groups/521957691148121/ https://www.facebook.com/events/668748966586101/ 1 Link to comment
Claude_Dreyfus Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 This is really good. I'm a sucker for nice and interesting scenery, which this has in abundance! Link to comment
ToniBabelony Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 It's like a delicious impressionist painting, but more realistic and in 3D and moving. Very nice framing as well. 2 Link to comment
Matteo_IT Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Very, very, very nice layout! I Like it! :blob6: :blob6: :blob6: 1 Link to comment
Kb4iuj Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 I do hope you photographed the whole building process to send into One of the N scale magazines... Even the ones in North America sometime look a little hard up for content. Link to comment
beakaboy Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Fabulous layout. I love the mountains and the vegetation. All it needs is a small fog machine operating at a show Link to comment
enodenlover Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 This is a really nice layout. It's amazing what can be accomplished in such a small space. 1 Link to comment
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