I would handle the joints just like drywall, with mud and tape, sand, & repeat mud as needed, feathering the edges smoothly. But paneling is more flexible than drywall, so drywall mud/tape may be prone to cracking if something hits the paneling between supporting studs.
Why not use foam board, etc... for the back drop painting? That room looks freshly painted. Just asking, and also easier to fix if want to change or mess it up? Must be a new house, or recently painted and new carpet? Or maybe you are the cleanest person on earth
Sunday, 07 January 2024- So it’s been awhile since my last post. I’ve been working pretty incessantly on the track plan. I think I’m satisfied enough to start in. This is probably an 90% solution-I’m sure compromises and adjustments will come during the build. It’s really become more of a Chicago theme. It’s a little bit of railfanning and a little bit of ops opportunity as well. I used SCARM, and used unitrack for the features…unitrack will be the double track main, and I’ll use Atlas flex for the yards and industrial branch lines. This will take up about the southern half of my basement (top of diagram is south). Bottom left is Metra’s Western Ave Coach yard: scenic stub-end staging and opportunity to do yard ops. This way I can rotate my Metra rolling stock and locos and the building can serves as hidden staging for my kids’ non-prototypical consists or local freight (until I build a permanent staging yard…more on that later). Metra coaches will then travel to the right (“heading north from Chicago”) through an urban canyon. Track height won’t change but the ground will drop away a bit for an underpass and elevated station (not depicted yet). Then it’s thr lift out?duck under? (TBD) and heading through some negative space towards Schiller Park and the Schiller Park intermodal yard, with another station. Then another bit of negative space before hitting an industrial park, like those in the Wheeling and Buffalo Grove suburbs. Then it can loop forever, or turn away at the wye towards staging tracks that will be added much later on-like when my kids are grown. There are some yard ops opportunities at at Schiller Park-bad order well cars or autoracks and getting wells to/from the A/D and load/unload tracks. My Schiller is compressed in length, but I think it’s got the feel of that very small yard. Mostly though, Schiller is a scene I can run through and stage some longer intermodal trains. The industrial park is going to be the opportunity for switching ops-I’ll have to stage that train somewhere else on the layout, pretending it just arrived on the scene, maybe stopped to hold for a Metra train-until I’ve got a staging yard done much later. Right now, there is no backdrop planned between the industrial park and the Western Ave Metra Yard. It’s not prototypical but I’d like to get the track down temporarily and mock up structures to see if I get the sense urban feel I’m going for here. Below the wye I can add for about another 12 feet once the space isn’t occupied, which could give me the opportunity for more rural/suburban run north of Chicago into Wisconsin and some hidden staging tracks. Maybe a helix to a staging deck. That’s a good ways off. Anyway-I’m happy with this as a concept and will adjust accordingly as I build it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
