This is the biggest scenery build I've ever done. It's not very impressive to serious model railroaders, but for us it's a big step in learning. The foam was relatively easy to work with, and reduces the weight by a significant margin compared to the old layout that used much more plaster and heavier wood.
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| Tunnel hill skeleton prepared for plaster cloth. |
Two things I forgot to do: paint the foam before the plaster cloth and add more than one layer of the plaster cloth. This would have reduced the need for more paint and ground foam later. But the section came out really well. It still needs some detailing, like inside the tunnel and additional coverage touch-ups. The tunnel portals look good, though I should have raised the ground level around the tracks before installing them. Trains clear just fine, but for realism purposes, it would've looked a little better.
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| Tunnel hill 95% complete. |
Those are real New Jersey rocks above and around the tunnel portals, along with some real dirt along the track bed. I still need to ballast the track, which will help a ton visually.
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