Photo Update

As promised, the blog has been updated with a few photos of the scenery progress at/near the Green River on the Dragonfly Sub.

The scene at the Green River and Ohio, Illinois is to the right.  The mainline bridge (track at back) has been temporarily removed during the messy scenery work.  The stub track is the tail of the track serving the Tampico Elevator.

This is a view from the "air."  The tracks have been covered with tape.  Ohio Elevator is along the wall next to the light.  The cross hatch area at the lower right is an area slated for a state highway.  When viewed from eye level, at the fascia, the viewer's eye will be drawn along the road and into the scene of the Ohio Elevator... at least that is the goal.

The hillside immediately to the left of  the mainline will be built up with rock castings to represent a rock cut.  Not exactly prototypical for the Midwest, but I wanted to try my hand at working with rock molds/castings.

As mentioned above, a state highway will be constructed in the area of the cross hatch.  The goal is the draw the viewer's eye from the foreground to the back of the layout and the scene at the Ohio Elevator.

More photos as the work progresses!

Scenery Update

I have been working on the base scenery in and around the Green River area.  I decided to add some "relief" to the otherwise flat benchwork and model some hills in the area between Green River and Ohio, Illinois.  I have started with the basic newspaper formed hills covered with paper towels soaked with plaster of Paris.  I have also incorporated the Green River riverbed into the scenery project, as it seemed to flow naturally from the hillside into the riverbank.  I will post some pictures of the progress.