The How To Page
Part Three
First a picture that show how it looks like when the demo
module is finished, and completed with different
details , and maintenance personel
 This is the first step to create a substructure for the background mountain and the road bed. I´m using whatever I find, e.g. empty cigarette boxes and a piece of an old ice hockey stick. |
 Next, some material to build up the ground surface. Ordinary toilet paper glued around the boxes to form soft contours before apply the plaster bandage. |
 The plaster bandage from a farmacy shop is now dipped for a few seconds in water, and then carefully formed upon the "hills" and road bed. The rolls of bandage is about 4" by 7´ in size. |
 Ones I saved (I think it was 10 years ago) a mix of newspaper, water, and wallpaper glue so called papier mâché. Today this stuff is like big pellets, excellent as modeling material after being put to soak in water again to get a pulpy mass. |
 Isn´t this nice? |
 Here are the hills and the embankment covered with the papier mâché described above. |
 The track is preliminary placed on the roadbed before it is nailed and the ballast is filled. |
 A full line of ballast and soil material that consist of cat litter (for big stones or gravel), and coloured sawdust for ground and grass surfaces supplied by HEKI or Woodlands. |
 The ballast is spread, and pressed down by some weights to receive a smoth filling between the rails. |
 Finally some telegraph poles made of toothpicks. A 0.5 mm hole is drilled in each pole for the beams of 0.5 mm copper tread. They are not longer than ordinary matches, and I have still about 1000 picks left over! |
I could not resist to add a special composed picture taken
outside our village that show an American freight train
running in the Swedish landscape along a non existing river:
This retaining wall is made from the tray that cookies are packed in.
Just eat the cookies throw the bag away ,trim the tray to the size you need,
and paint a concrete colour.