Cuspidor and Southern RR History

The early years pre 2021 archived here. My freelance adventures in Colorado in Hon3. Buildings, scenery, details and character are my interests with operation well down my priorities. The layout is a scant 8x12 ft so compromises have been made to squeeze in the scenic and building work I love. Influenced by Allen, Olsen and Furlow along with Earl Smallshaw, John Swanson and latterly Sam Swanson. I make no claim to authenticity and retain my tongue firmly in cheek while modelling.

Wednesday, 7 October 2015

A new scenic opportunity continued...

To start the process of aging and dilapidation:

Take one nicely built mine entrance

and remove one of the supports

Suggest a rotten knot hole causing structural weakness over time. Drill a hole in the middle and then distress the hole to remove neat roundness

Break support, push other support inside roof beam, glue support back and tilt roof.

Add crummy wall timbers

At this point I added and old 18" tram track with steel sleepers made from strip styrene. The track is a KL angle iron moulding. The track curves to the discharge point.