Fantastic re-build Ken. Will be studying to incorporate some of your techniques.
Beautiful job Ken, great documentation of your techniques, materials and ideas. That railroad should last for years to come. Will it fill in with moss and lichen in your area? Are you going to plant ground covers?
I will be starting again soon and will for sure review your techniques.
Rick
Thanks guys.
Yea Rick, I have some ground covers planted in the Mancos area. I’ll have to get some pictures. All of that stuff I kept in the pots. Behind the shed it stays shady most of the day and there’s some kind of moss growing there. I tried not to cover it with too much dirt when I filled in back there.
It’s that brownish looking stuff under the TT:
In the area where Porter is, I’m going to use planter boxes under the layout with some of the scrap PVC board. I did that in Delores and and it seems to work well.
I also built some 3’ long planter boxes to hang on the front of the Delores module. I’ll plant some low growing shrubs in them mostly to hide the bench work. And eventually I’ll plant stuff around the outside of the layout. But that’s way down on the “to-do” list.
So far most of my ideas about this method seem to work. Time will tell if it stays that way. At the very least it will solve the frost heave problem. That was the biggest maintenance issue (and headache) I had when it was on the ground.
(Hey Roos, let me know when baseball is over. I’d like to get you and Hollywood back down here)
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Further repairs to the TT pit:
Most of the outside walls and all the inside walls are now repaired.
I filled the empty space in the walls with concrete, same as the rest of it.
Once that dries and the forms cleaned up, I can add the veneer.
The forms for the walls will stay in place and the veneer attached to it. As you can see it’s made from those plastic signs from Lowes…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
So is it for rent.
I prefer the free signs that I can get after elections are held, but then I am cheap.
Looking good.
I use the coroplast for buildings. These are thinner and bend around curves better.
Oh, I see now. They are the thin plastic signs.
How do you fasten that material?
Goop works fine on the concrete.
looks like some serious civil engineering.
Looking good Ken. I like the use of concrete. I want to try some buildings that are cast in it. Seems to be the best option to stand up to mother nature. What are the board you are building it on top of? Pressure treated, vinyl or other?
Is that your “sweat towel” in the pit?
Randy Lehrian Jr. said:
What are the board you are building it on top of? Pressure treated, vinyl or other?
The base of the pit is 1x6" PVC boards glued together and screwed down to 1" sq PVC posts under it. The whole shebang is on top of the bench work.
Yea, Roos, pretty much…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Nice, that ought to outlast us all. Plus, it’s already been sweat rag tested!
While dealing with this hot, steamy weather we’ve been having these last few days, the repairs continue;
Will it fill in with moss and lichen in your area? Are you going to plant ground covers?
I will be starting again soon and will for sure review your techniques.
I planted a few in the Mancos area. Not quite sure what their names are, a few are Sedums.
Ken Brunt said:
I planted a few in the Mancos area. Not quite sure what their names are,
Carol and Eugene?
Ken, the turntable work is looking good…
names??? Gertrude & Hecliff???
More like Fric and Frac…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Ric and Andy?