I've spent a few sessions continuing to work on the scenery in Whitefield, starting from the area where I added trees up to the diamond crossing. I ballasted the B&M and MEC tracks and added dirt and grass between. The MEC track is straight Arizona Rock ballast, NS/CSX blend. The B&M is a mixture that includes Northern Pacific gray along with sone various other ballasts I have on hand to create a dirty blend to represent older ballast. The MEC in my time period was regularly ballasting the Mountain Division and I wanted the clean look that is evident in many pictures.
The other areas include various Scenic Express blends of dirt and turf. I added static grass with a Noch Grassmaster, and also some sections of Heki wild grass fibers. I still plan to add more, and then fill in more trees as well.
It is nice to see the structures in a sceniced area. It is a lot of fun to bring the scene to life with some added details I've had for quite a while. Included is a casting for the B&M call box. Plenty of more details will be added, especially around the MEC section house. But for now it is a good start.
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| An overall view of area. In the back is a dark brown patch where I will add a structure for Whitefield Plastics. |
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| A lower level view of the ball signal with a B&M and MEC train staged. |
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| Looking back towards the ball signal, this grade crossing links to the section house parking lot. Additional weeds and treatment to the gravel will be done here. |
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| The siding for Whitefield Plastics is in place, but I need to build a structure and some tanks for the covered hoppers to unload. I like the way the the gravel road came out, which has a number of different materials added and final dusting of granite dust. |
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| A close-up of the section house. Pretty cool Dodge pickup model that will look good in this prominent location. Just need to add the NH license plate decals. |
7 comments:
Mike,
It looks great. However, I love that "Flexi-Flo" car. Is it a Spring Mills Depot car? If so, it is a pretty rare model- they only made about 48 of them in that large "can opener" scheme. I wish they made them in other road numbers but they said this was the only road number they had a picture for. So, it could be a rare prototype car too! I bought one and it is the only car I haven't had the courage to weather yet.
Keep up the good work.
Very nice.
Is "Whitefield Plastics" representative of Presby Environmental (AKA "Presby Plastics") on Airport Road?
Re: Flexi-FLo - Yes, that is a Spring Mills car. I picked it up at Springfield right when they first came out. I really went with the one I thought would fit my time frame and also looked "cool"! Interesting that so few of this scheme were made. I have not done any weathering on mine either, but I will keep it light as it was still pretty new for my time period.
Re: Whitefield Plastics, Yes Aaron, Presby did give me the idea to add this siding/customer to the layout. They obviously came later than my time period, but this is a good addition operationally as not too much other local traffic is there.
Mike
Excellent job as always, my wife and I saw the "ball" this past fall, I was impressed! Great job Mike, sorry I missed you at Springfield, you did look busy, LOL!
Mike, if it looks too crowded to put tanks in this spot for the plastic pellets, give some thought to a compressor on a trailer that could suck the pellets from the hopper into a semi-trailer. The truck would look good on that gravel road!
Geof, that's an interesting idea. Will need to look into that. Thanks!
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