Part of the old mine complex that I built over 30 years ago now was a covered conveyor house which was languishing in a drawer. I made it from showcard braced with stripwood and clad with birch or spruce strips. Never wanting to waste a nice looking structure I wanted to incorporate this on the layout but couldn't think where to put it. I tried it between the cliff face and the tramway at Saratoga but it didn't make sense there, then I thought of the Victor Mine. Bingo! A bit of cutting and fitting, a new trestle and an abandoned tailing pile and it adds character to an already good corner of the layout.
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| Built to last! |
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| Glued in place and trestle plastered in |
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| You can just about make out a FSM ore chute casting underneath |
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| Tailings piles from shaped pink foam, trying for size |
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| Tailings piles painted with sand sprinkled on |
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| Tailings (sieved garden vermiculite) with sand and catlitter ore sprinkled lightly over |
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