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There’s a place to include realistic water effects on just about any model railroad, including our Olympia Logging Co. On30 layout. In this video, David Popp shows how to build a log pond, starting with the pond banks shaped from foam insulation board, covered with Sculptamold, and topped with resin logs.
You know……I've come to think that this is my favorite all time project video. Pacing is great, personalities are great, camera work and sound is great, information is definitive, and of course, the scene is fantastic. I wasn't thinking of adding a logging operation to my layout, but now I am. Thanks for bringing it to me.
Good segment David. I'm getting ready to do some foam landscaping myself and this will go a long way in making my murky, standing water look realistic along the ROW. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Another great video David, nicely done, very informative
Very well presented as usual David, MR Video Plus is really great, love it all ! Very good films, lots of interesting topics and all round good value for money on the subscription and regularly updated videos, you can't beat it ! 🙂
David, this segments really helps to decide how I will work on my log pond for the sawmill on my layout for the logging operation. Thanks for the great ideas!
Sometimes I take the long way around to do things. It is good to see David's shortcuts. I did my resin logs backwards, starting with a thinned pine stain. I left the "sawed off" ends with just that stain on them. For the bark, I painted roof brown on the castings and let that dry. Then, I dry brushed a dark grey. After that dried, I dry brushed a medium grey on top or the dark grey. For the top layer, I sparingly dry brushed a light grey for highlights on the bark ridges. I glued on a smidge of Woodland Scenics Weeds Fine Turf for a moss look in a spot or two. I glued a tiny piece or two of lichen on each log to represent a couple of branch remnants. The logs are convincing in HO scale, but much more time consuming than David's method is.
Great segment on the log pond construction David. I like the logs laid down the slope to skid the dumped logs into the pond protecting the pond bank and track right-of-way from failing into the pond, nice touch. I assume that you'll be using similar half logs floating in the pond itself, great product. Super.
Like David Young I am enjoying the Olympia series but I would love to see a dimensioned trackplan so I can work out how to try something similar. I thought you were going to publish a plan in the Dec or Jan issues of MR?
I have really been enjoying the Olympia Logging series. All the segments have been great so far. I hope that you are planning a segment on building and incorporating the saw mill into the layout. And I also hope you will be doing a segment on how to operate this small layout. It would be very interesting to see how you would utilize the sector plate and staging in operation. Also, is there a set of articles planned in MR to accompany the video segments, and if so, when will those be showing up? I would love to see the actual "track plan" with the dimensions, list of materials, etc. Great job from the MR team as always.