Club member Basil Casabona continues to apply his talents to finishing installing the windows and doors on shed #1 and #2 of the roundhouse. We agreed that working on the east side of shed #2 would “fool” the visitor coming into the layout into thinking a lot more windows and doors have been installed than … Continue reading
More biggish trees for the north outside wall of the layout
We are trying to “force perspective” by having the trees we are creating/planting get larger the nearer they are to the visitor standing at the north east corner of the layout. The second thing we are trying to do is to make our forest “dense”. Here’s how we have started out …….. This pic shows … Continue reading
Chief Operating Officer’s first tree on the outside North Wall
I wanted a crooked tree on the section of outside north wall that is at an angle. I located a trunk and the foliage bit and gave it to Frank. He created a base and stuck the top in the trunk. Last but not least he “planted” it. Pretty cool eh!!!!!!
Outside West Wall Stages 2, 3, 4 and 5
In a previous blog I explained how the bottom layer of panels were attached to the outside west wall. Stage 2 The next step was to increase the amount of sky. This was not part of the original plan. But, we had enough plywood to make/paint enough panels to increase the sky as you can … Continue reading
New Cabinets for the Workshop
We had some of our power tools nicked. They were battery powered and they didn’t get the batteries????????? That led us to reconsider (a) where we kept our power tools and (b) what sort of replacements. President Chuck Whitlock ordered new Ryobi battery powered tools and a battery powered Dremel like tool. Club member Lonnie … Continue reading
The first 150 (scale) foot redwood on the layout
6 foot is 72 inches. one foot on the layout is half an inch – so, 150 feet give or take!!!! Now ain’t she cute!!! And she was soon joined by ……… miss shorty bendy pants!!!!! And stepping back and looking down the North Wall from the morth-east corner:
A rats nest in a diesel
There has been a collective decision that the excess rolling stock and motive power should be made available to whomever might like them provided they make a modest donation to the club’s coffers. The excess diesels, which are too modern to be used on our layout, have been stored in my train room for nigh … Continue reading
Working on the Roundhouse
Our roundhouse was created by master carpenter/club member Joe Cooper. Masterpieces come in many, many pieces. I was supposed to paint and install the windows and doors. They have languished in my workshop for over a year. So, I was VERY grateful when club member Basil Casabona kindly took on the job of painting, assembling … Continue reading
Birds on the Exterior East Wall of the MCMR&HS Model Railroad in Fort Bragg, Mendocino
All of the new flock are in resident on or around the Virgin Creek trestle located on the east wall of our G scale model railroad located in Fort Bragg, Mendocino. The eagle was created on a 3D printer by daughter Annalise and assembled and painted by Club President Chuck Whitlock. (Click on picture to … Continue reading
New signs along the exterior East Wall of the MCMR&HS layout in Fort Bragg, Mendocino
Club member Roger Thornburn has been very busy replacing the info signs along the layout’s exterior East Wall. The old signs had faded under a beating from the UV and sea air. They were amongst our oldest signs and weren’t that easy to read so Roger “upped” the font size as well as making new … Continue reading