Perhaps you can convince the boss to send you on a fact-finding mission to these places. I see there’s a mini-Paris listed on page 3.
https://cockingtongreen.com.au/ is the Aussie one in Canberra.
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i accuse you of successfully robbing hours of my life!
thank you.
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Well if you are looking for something like this I can tell you how to make it. The second one is much easier to make. I whipped that one up for our local museums Lionel Christmas trains display. It’s in gray primer but I painted it concrete color like the first pic.
If anyone has access to the Garden Railways magazine index (I do not) I recall at least one article on using common foam insulation board (the pink or blue stuff) to make bridges for outdoor use. Looked good and quite weather resistant. FWIW.
Jerry
Rooster those bridges are beautiful! How did you construct them?
I bought a couple of trestle bridges for another hole on our course. This is to represent the old river bridge that was torn down years ago. It figures prominently in the local memory. When I ordered these, I was under the impression they were metal construction, but it turns out they are a very heavy plastic. After delivery, I went back and looked them up and see if it said anywhere how they were made, and the page had been removed. I found the same product on a couple other sites and nowhere could I find a description of what they were made of. All in all, I am not unhappy. They are well made kits and seem very durable. We bought 2 of them. Each is 4 feet long, and we will join them on a concrete pillar in the middle of the “river” to cover an 8 foot span.
They are probably not UV protected? Give them a good coat of paint before you install them.
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I will probably try to get creative with the paint. The original bridge was a powder blue. I plan on painting the raw plastic with an adhesion layer, then a layer of burnt orange. After that I will wax some of edges to prevent adhesion and paint it blue. Finally, it will get a matted clear finish with UV protection. Hopefully the final product will look like a metal blue bridge that is beginning to rust.