today i’ll be boring you with some more bushes. made from sisal string (same tecnic as the gras, only longer) foilage fixed with white glue. the different foilage consists of two different crushed mosses, painted sawdust and crushed origami blocks. (i think, my wife will need a new coffee grinder - but she doesn’t know yet)
to go on with my monologue… another tree finished. ingredients: about 2.50 $ worth of copper, paint, sawdust and sand (half on the tree, half on the tray), and shreddered moss (including some stress, concerning a abused coffeemill…) and about two days of modeling.
Must not be too much pressure, it’s not done yet? 
Nicky
maybe time to put off any more trees until the basework is finished?
My mantra of layout building is: Do what absolutely MUST get done first, what SHOULD be done next, and finally what COULD be added last. That way the layout is at the very least at a basic level of completeness prior to the event and you can keep adding extras right up to and even during the show.
Nick, how could it be done, if there are still one and a half days left?
yes, Vic, that’s my way to work too. but with a fixed date, i seldom get past the essentials.
but there is little of those left.
i just finished plastering the house. this night i will scrape excess plaster from the windows. tomorrow morning is for repainting windows and roofing the thing. (tiles - if that doesn’t work, i’ll roof with corrugated sheets)
today i still have to bring mud into the corral. (at least i am nearly finished planting)
tomorrow afternoon i’ll search, cut and paint figures. tomorrow night for last minute ideas.
friday i’ll select and prepare the rolling stock and the powerpacks. friday afternoon it’s setup time.
saturday and sunday are reserved for shaking hands and freaking out, if the trains don’t run, or things breake…
with that much mud, maybe i should outfit the dairy girl with rubber boots?
That much mud… the cow needs boots… lol…
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Re read from the start…good thread Korm!
Fine job on all the vegetation Korm.
One of these days I’d like to do an indoor display.
You’ve provided plenty of usefull information and ideas
Ralph
thanks for the comments. Noel, why do you call that lovely dairy maid a cow?? i take Ralph’s comment as motive to mention, that if anybody is interested in the tecnics applied, just ask. Ralph, don’t build an indoors layout, if you are mainly interested in running trains. they are never finished. trains frequently can not run, because building stuff is blocking the track. indoors is for guys like me, who have the trains as mere pretext for modeling. Rooster, i’m not sure, if you are sincere, or just flattered, because i took your pic… 
Korm Kormsen said:
thanks for the comments. Noel, why do you call that lovely dairy maid a cow?? i take Ralph’s comment as motive to mention, that if anybody is interested in the tecnics applied, just ask. Ralph, don’t build an indoors layout, if you are mainly interested in running trains. they are never finished. trains frequently can not run, because building stuff is blocking the track. indoors is for guys like me, who have the trains as mere pretext for modeling. Rooster, i’m not sure, if you are sincere, or just flattered, because i took your pic…
… The dairy maid is just well fed thats all. Probably don’t miss to many meals, but ya she probably could use some boots in that pen… Are you sure that’s mud and not just deep mix of sloppy Cow Poop? The Cow also may need couple pr. of boots to…Laf. Like others… Keep up the photos as you go… Very interesting with a story as you go… Jane and I are watching. lol
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Korm Kormsen said:Not a layout Korm, a static display about 6 or 8 feet long. I've got a scale model of the (Civil War)Confederate submarine CSS Hunley. The Hunley was transported by rail to Charleston, SC. It was the first sub to ever sink a ship. Anyway, it's too nice to run outdoors, so I'm thinking about building an indoor display of the train transporting the Hunley. Ralph
Ralph, don't build an indoors layout, if you are mainly interested in running trains.
half the windows cleaned - i earned a break.
Ralph, the Hunley, is that the vessel, that sank twice, then sank a sloop and sank again?
oh, now i understand. display - what we call “Diorama” in german.
hmmm… you will need a laaarge fireplace, to set it up on the mantlepiece.
if you set it up in rural setting you will need lots of vegetation. best start by robbing your wife’s mixer and coffeemill.
Cracks and all it is shaping up to be pretty cool.
And, actually, the cracks fit just fine; large scalers are often slightly cracked anyway.
Forrest Scott Wood said:Speak for your self, I am NOT cracked...
Cracks and all it is shaping up to be pretty cool. And, actually, the cracks fit just fine; large scalers are often slightly cracked anyway.
I am warped, if not totally BENT
:lol:
cracks?!? who says, my buildings have cracks? what you saw were no cracks, that were sub-plaster strucktural random ventilation slots!
but, Vic, how should we say about a modeler, who puts R2D2 as thrashbin in a wild west setup?? now started roofing. the gables are done, the tiles (stripes) are cut.
and specially for a laughing frog: now our lovely heroine found her permanent place on the layout. (they mentioned her and her point of gravity in the radio, when advertising the show. she’s a celebrity already)
i am not content. not even a little bit. back to thinking, how i can make a tyled roof.
Korm Kormsen said:
Ralph, the Hunley, is that the vessel, that sank twice, then sank a sloop and sank again?oh, now i understand. display - what we call “Diorama” in german
well, this modeling and this thread are near their ends. moved the modules out of my room to the diningroom, preparing for transport tomorrow afternoon. thus i got some space to set up tables in my room, for sorting through the figures. already found the squatting guy, calves and two drawhorses. now hunting for bodyparts to make a nice hunter and a horsehandler. save the figures there are only four things left: the roof and porch of the house (working on it) the cowshit (have to buy a siringe) put new couplers on one freightcar (if time gets short, i’ll take another car) planting more corn and gras (i’ll do that during the exhibition for “special interest”)
korm, great Job, and pictures of your work… Thanks for sharing…
