NMRA Silver Plume Bakery Build

I joined the local chapter of the NMRA this year and one of the activities was to build a wooden laser cut structure. In total there were almost 40 people taking part in various scales. I decided to add a scratchbuilt shed to the side of mine and made mine into a snowboard shop. This was also the first building I built where I added interior details and lights. It's not totally done yet but I sure had fun building it.

Coniferous convention

I had some guys over for a tree building session. The following are some photos of our efforts to populate a piece of the Lyn Valley NorthWestern with a few trees.

Here are the tools needed.

This is dyed brown Manilla rope.

Twist it between a wire and.........TA DA! Instant tree.

Spray some glue on it And sprinkle on some ground foam.

Here are some of the trees we built.

Adding rocks

Here is my first attempt at carving rocks. I was not overly impressed with the look so I made a mold of a rock in the garden. The 3rd, 4th & 5th pictures below are rocks made with that mold.

Landscaping

Now it was time to plaster in the basic shape of the landscape. I used the soaked paper towel over chicken wire wethod for this area. Found the paper towels ripped really easy so I'm going to try used dryer bounce sheets for the next section. They are tougher but still pourous enough to soak up the plaster. The layout will smell nice too. :-)

Foothills Ethanol

Now that the brackdrop was painted I need to finish the track work leading into the Foothills Ethanol plant. I decided to build some #4 switches for this area to give me the maximum amount of room to spot cars. In the third picture you can see one of my homemade Electro magnets to uncouple cars with. Much easier to install these before the track is laid instead of trying to install them from underneath. Unfortunately this is what I have to do in the yard if I want them in there. In the last picture you can see how I cut the grain bins in half to save room and make it look like there was 4. The backdrop behind the plant needs to be painted yet.