please…
… make enough pics, when you come to finishing and painting your rock-surfaces.
Thanks guys.
Korm, I will be glad to post more pictures as I carve the rock strata. Going to use a Dremel tool(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif) to do the carving. All new stuff for me.
Tom
Sean McGillicuddy said:
WOW
This is really cool. I likes the like button theme in this mini movie. Tom
That is a ledge full of rattlesnakes and copperheads in July sunning themselves on the ledges of that drop!
Love it!
" Rooster " said:
That is a ledge full of rattlesnakes and copperheads in July sunning themselves on the ledges of that drop!
Love it!
Hey Rooster. If you look real closely you can see this wee sign on that ledge:
We have prairie rattlesnakes and bull snakes here in this alternative universe. Rattlers are poisonous. All snakes here are protected and you can be fined for killing one. They help keep down the chicken/ rooster population real nice like…oooops. Doc Tom(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)
Tom Grabenstein said:
" Rooster " said:
That is a ledge full of rattlesnakes and copperheads in July sunning themselves on the ledges of that drop!
Love it!
Hey Rooster. If you look real closely you can see this wee sign on that ledge:
We have prairie rattlesnakes and bull snakes here in this alternative universe. Rattlers are poisonous. All snakes here are protected and you can be fined for killing one. They help keep down the chicken/ rooster population real nice like…oooops. Doc Tom(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)
ROFL!
Let’s do some stratification.
The Kittom logging outfit is situated at the border of Tennessee and Kentucky (close to my real home of Clarksville TN.). The geology of this area is fairly simple sandstone capping limestone. It is the limestone that makes up the biggest portion of our rocks around here and the rivers have cut through it making some pretty spectacular faces and cliffs.
I wanted to model this on the Kittom Logging mini.
The layered foam sheets lend themselves to the creation of limestone cliffs and rock outcroppings. First I used a Sharpie to mark out rocks and areas that would be the forest floor on a steep slope.
Next I used the dremel tool and a grinding disc to cut strata in the limestone rock faces. Note, I did not use the universal sanding drum that came with the d. tool. It tends to rip and cut in to the styrofoam board a little too aggressively. Don’t ask me how I know.
I use the very edge of the spinning disc to cut the foam lightly. You tend to follow the clockwise rotation of the moving disc to “skip” gently over the surface and you end up with this …….strata.
Here is a shot that shows the difference between the worked rock faces and the original layered foam boards.
I next used a sanding block to taper the forest floor down to the rocks and smooth the edge of the “foam block” I have created.
Next up will be carving in vertical drainage lines on the rock faces.
Thanks for looking. Doc Tom
Now were getting some where.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
very, very interesting.
i would not have it thought possible, to cut such fine features out of foam.
please, keep them pics coming!
All I see is snakes and moss in that canyon !
As always nice work Doc!
Korm, extruded foam can be carved like that, with fine details. Expanded foam usually is more difficult to carve, because its made up of balls, or globules, and they tend to break off when trying to carve it.
Thanks Ron, Korm, and Dave for getting in on the discussion of making rocks from extruded foam (which is 90% air).
Rooster this image may help explain the paranoia why one would see snakes lurking in every corner of my model:
Believe me I understand, and with the correct therapy there really is HOPE for a cure from your demons.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-innocent.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-innocent.gif)
Doc Tom
Thank you all for following along as I carve away at blue insulation foam. Hopefully I can get some colors going soon to break the mono-color “blues.”
Here I have got the vertical drainage lines cut on the rock face overlooking the Red River (still looks blue to me).
Here is a shot with an On30 Porter from my other mini layout so you can see the proportion of the rolling stock to the cliff face.
Thanks again for looking.
Doc Tom
Doc Tom,
Have you ever been to the Christian Youth Camp outside of Elizabethton, TN. on the old ET&WNC row? If you walk through the tunnel you come upon the ledge leading to Pardee Point and the infamous pictures of the 1880’s. The cliffs are much like that and should be coming into phenominal color in the next couple of weeks.
Good road trip.
Too cool! Here’s some pictures from the old ET&WNC ROW that Ric mentioned.
Unfortunately, it only goes so far.
Ric Golding said:
Doc Tom,
Have you ever been to the Christian Youth Camp outside of Elizabethton, TN. on the old ET&WNC row? If you walk through the tunnel you come upon the ledge leading to Pardee Point and the infamous pictures of the 1880’s. The cliffs are much like that and should be coming into phenominal color in the next couple of weeks.
Good road trip.
Thanks Ric. I have looked at everything I can online and reviewed the Youth Camp videos to Pardee Point, but alas have not hiked in to the Doe River Gorge, even though I live in the great state of TennisShoe.
Believe it or not my next project is an On30 layout depicting the ET&WNC. Hope to recreate a full size replica of Blevins Station to house the layout in.
My wife is all for this project and we have started early negotiations to get er’ started. But realistically probably 2 years away.
Doc Tom
Bruce Chandler said:
Too cool! Here’s some pictures from the old ET&WNC ROW that Ric mentioned.
Unfortunately, it only goes so far.
Thanks Bruce. These are GREAT photos!! I have to get over there to do some field research real soon. Love the rock strata and could use these pics to help color the mini layout prototypically.
Doc Tom
Ric described his hike to Pardee point to us Saturday at a pig roast.
So glad to see the area “in person”, thanks Bruce.
Go Doc Tom, Go! I have some closet doors…thinking of a 7/8 mineral railway.
Tom
Well, Ric was certainly there…along with his lovely wife Jan…
Heh…and Doug as well…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
