Finished the platforms yesterday. A pretty simply kit to assemble. The base is painted Floquil Concrete, support beams are Floquil Roof Brown, and the roof is Floquil Rail Brown. I actually wanted to paint the roof Roof Brown as well, but ran out of paint.

Shaun Scenery

A bit of progress report on the layout.

Things began rolling along will installing the bridge piers and get that all situated.  I first painted the abutments with a wash of Woodland Scenic slate paint, and then used some styrene pieces to raise the bridge up to the benchwork top.

And then I noticed something….not good.  Even though the bridge was even with the benchwork on both sides, it wasn’t level. Something was wrong.. really wrong.

It appears I have what looks like a slight bulge in my benchwork. On the Elmwood side you can see it (how I missed it so far I have no idea), but it’s not that big a deal.  It actually adds a little natural looking hill in the benchwork.   But on the river side, the river is cut right almost at the apex of the bulge, so I ended up with river banks at two different levels.  How much of difference?

It looks worse that it really is though.  A little extra cork, a Woodland Scenic riser and then all will be well.  Just a little added work, though I guess I’m just more annoyed that I didn’t see this a long time ago.

So anyway…. I wasn’t going to let this stop progress.  Today I began securing in the first sections of the track.

I began at the bridge and worked westward, installing the switch and junction line.  I’m using Latex Caulk w/Silicone for securing the track in place.

Shaun Scenery, Track

Painted using Valspar 4007-10A “Skyscape”.

Shaun Scenery

Finished up the Car Shop kit this evening (minus decals).

The brick walls were painted Roof Brown, the doors and support beams are Stainless Steel, the windows are Pullman Green, the roof is Grimy Black, and the floor is Concrete.

The rail is Micro Engineering Code 55 weather rail. Got it from some extra pieces of concrete flex I had left over from the old layout.

Shaun Scenery