The plastered augmented bridge abutments have had a wash of brown put into the cracks in the stone but due to the greater depth in the plaster cracks, the wash has accentuated the depth difference further. As a result, I wish to deliberately add some grey to even out the perceived depth so that the plaster stonework appears to match the stonework in the moulded plastic abutments.
In turntable news, I am trying to get a good feel for the colours that an operating turntable would have had back in the glory days of steam. The trick being that colour photography and the glory days of steam only overlapped slightly, and like so many things, nobody felt that some things were worth taking colour photographs of until they aren't there anymore. The turntable at Cheyenne that turns UP 844 and UP 3985 is the spiritual parent of my turntable, even if it is probably larger and has the hut and is much fancier but the Walthers 120' manual turntable beats any of the other N-scale turntables bar the new and fully sick Walthers 130' turntable that costs multiple hundreds of dollars, not the $50 something I spent :-)
Still waiting the arrival of the Micro-scale bridge track but that was as expected.
Recently spent too much time at Bunnings again and they had some 1830mm x 945mm x 12mm 5 ply and I picked up two: one to augment my 1200 x 900 HO table with an under shelf. The remainder of that panel will also allow me to do two things: 1) create the engine servicing terminal with the turntable, round house and coaling station, and so on. 2) create a setting for my HO auto facility mentioned in a previous blog entry. The other panel will one day allow me to do another HO layout with ever so slightly larger radii, maybe even the 18" that NMRA says you should not go below. Also the extra length will allow for gentler grades, longer trains, space inside the loop for switching interest, all the good stuff.
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