Yeah, not sure I would use something that real food is used for. On the other hand, maybe it adds a different taste to real food. Honey, do you taste ground foam in your chopped onions New recipe possibly? Is that broccoli? No, it's ...? Go get them Chef! Coming to a Menu near you I'm done now, sorry!
Us older folks sometimes need more ruffage, so I figure remnants of Foliage Clusters in our food might contribute to our health. I told my wife about the situation and she's not at all concerned. The green stain cleans up fine with alcohol and she figures after a trip through the dishwasher, all will be like new. I tried finely chopping the Foliage Cluster mix today and the size reduction really helps the appearance I think. Next up, I'll glue some in place and see how it looks.
Does anyone make low concrete or stone walls in N Scale? On my layout, an embankment is a bit close to a lower track. The track to the left is on a raised embankment and the base of the embankment is adjacent to a lower line. I'm not worried about clearance on the lower line, but purely for appearance's sake, I'm thinking that if I were to cut away the base of the embankment and add a 5 foot wall (3/8" high) along its length (about 25"), things might look a little better. Thanks for any ideas. Scratchbuilding might be best here.
You could stack a couple of ¼" square balsa strips and paint them concrete gray, then add some weathering and vegetation.
A while ago thought about using something like below for backdrop. Had these saved in a list. Also Plastruct makes a lot of 16" x 7" stone sheets.
This is a good idea and would be very easy. I've also used Woodland Scenic foam cut to shape and painted concrete with good results. The foam can also be cut to start lower in the foreground area then get higher and curved to fit what looks like a change in elevation at the top of your picture.
Thank you Mark -- lots of options there. Presize is on your list and I found they make some interesting stuff. These fieldstone walls are of a good size, 5/16" x 5/16" (4' x 4' in N Scale) x 4" Long. The embankment is mostly straight (except for the curve that @cbg noticed. I think I can work around it.) and I could line up six of them.
I was just thinking that could also break out my hot foam knife and cut the embankment to a steeper incline to allow more room at the base. Lots of options here. Thanks everyone.
Chooch did both of those in HO. They had stone in N. However, I do not recall if they also had concrete in their N scale. Might be worth a search on-line.
Using 3D wall sheet like the Plastruct or Rail Scale models, sheets in general, allows for custom dimensions and less expensive but of course more labor. Possibly use over pink EPS form. I liked these too except for the card stock material. https://www.rail-scale-models.com/products/N-~-3D-Walls-&-Laminates
Mark, Thank you for this link which I did not know about. These materials look good and the smaller stone size will work better for my stone piers than the larger Chooch stone. - Tonkphilip https://www.rail-scale-models.com/products/N-~-3D-Walls-&-Laminates[/QUOTE]
My scenery is no way done, but I've about reached a temporary stopping place with it. As such, I'm thinking about structures. I scratchbuilt about half of the structures on my previous DS&N (v2.0) because I wasn't much enticed by what I found in kits. One of the signature structures on a railroad serving northeastern PA is an anthracite coal "breaker" and it was one I scratchbuilt. Unfortunately, it won't fit on the new DS&N, so I must build a new one or take a look at the N Scale Architect's Lackawanna Coal Company kit as seen here to see if it might fit. This kit wasn't available when v2.0 was built. Anthracite is "hard coal", so chunks from underground mines had to be crushed like rock to smaller sizes for washing and sorting, hence the "breaker". When anthracite was king in the early 1900s, some 300 breakers worked the massive tide of coal that moved to market. All are gone today, demolished. In the early 1980s, a number of closed breakers remained and I shot some photos of them. Here are a few. In order, the Harry E. at Swoyersville, the Loree at Larksville and the last two, the Huber at Ashley.
That N Scale Architect's kit is really nice looking. Bet it would look great on your layout or at least provide you with what you need to kit bash one the way you want it to be. You will also need a plant to make the blue paint that was used to color the Blue Coal
That kit looks awesome. Where would it go on your new layout? Whatever kits you build, we need some progress photo's. Especially if you build the N Scale Architect's Lackawanna Coal Company kit. It looks huge? Is it?
Its footprint is 11" x 10", so stretches to the limit my available real estate. I downloaded a plan view of it; I'm not sure how adaptable it might be to kitbashing. I like my industry tracks to be visible so that the freight cars can be seen and enjoyed. The other matter is the kit's cost at $150, which probably isn't so crazy these days, but I'd want to have a high degree of kitbash confidence if I were to buy it.
Wow, that's one nice large structure! The N Scale Architect's stuff is top notch. At 11 x 10x 6.5" H, it will be a focal point. Possibly dwarf much on the layout? Do you have other buildings near to size? At $150, its like $30 less than online price of a Atlas N Gold-ESU diesel loco... Gee, how the cost of structures have increased.
