Hi All, Hindsight is always perfect. 15 years down the road I realized that I should have made the deck on my yard modules on 1 sheet of Homosote instead of many pieces of Homobed right next to each other. I was concerned about weight so I used the Homobed. http://www.homabed.com
This is what I have now. http://www.lanestrains.com/S_Scale_Modules2.htm I am now filling in most of the V shaped spaces in between the tracks to get a mostly flat surface. Many yards are greasy mud holes where you can barely see the rails, and almost no ties. That is kind of what I am shooting for. I was using regular auto body Bondo yesterday. I dumped a liberal amount of Scalecoat loco black paint in every batch as I mixed it trying to get away from the orange/pink color the mix is usually. I got mostly a dark gray which is fine. I have so far been talked out of using the Bondo between the rails as the mud and grease schmutz look. I really want to try it because I think that will look good. Does anyone want to test my Bondo idea on their layout first? (:->) I don't expect it to stick well to the wood and Homobed so we used 1/2" headed nails every few inches to mold the Bondo around. The black paint may have slightly inhibited the hardening, but that is good too because I wanted it to remain flexible to a degree. It cures pretty quickly depending on the mount of hardener added. As it is curing you can cut it and clear out the unwanted areas pretty easily. It is definitely hard enough now to put scenery on top of it. It will be tight on time but we will hopefully have the beast with some ground cover and ballast by the CJSS get together In other news the eBay S other manufacturers category is at a seemingly all time low 36 listings. Who bought it all? Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com Winner of the 2007 Josh Seltzer NASG Website Award Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Importing a Brass S Scale PRR X29 & G26 http://www.pennsysmodels.com PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! http://www.prrths.com http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE (for now) http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL See my Altoona train videos here http://www.myspace.com/billlane No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.4/969 - Release Date: 8/23/2007 4:04 PM Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
