Nothing in model railroading is exempt from a do-over, including the scenery we roughed in around the base of the timber snowshed on our Olympia Logging Co. On30 layout. So rather than try to finesse the terrain to better support the structure, David Popp simply used a mulligan to rebuild the area with foam installation board and Sculptamold.
Olympia Logging Series: Part 25 – Reworking the snowshed base
By Angela Cotey | October 2, 2014
| Last updated on January 11, 2021
Once again, David comes through with a thorough and easy-to-grasp segment on the layout. It's a pleasure to watch and listen to someone with his upbeat and affable demeanor make a tutorial-type video fun to watch. I'm guessing that the "scenery sheets" idea was less than ideal, at least for this application; I was thinking along those lines too when I saw the video of its initial use, but, as it was pointed out, you can always do a "do-over"! Great work, MR staff, and let's see more; much more!
A nice "save" by Mr. P. By the way, just as some guys do with scenery plaster, I usually add a bit of brown latex paint to my Sculptamold so that even if some scenic material gets scraped away you aren't seeing pure white.
David does an excellent job explaining things. Very entertaining. Good tip at the end too!
Love the last line! Layout is looking great!