visit sierrawestscalemodels.com

Building My Layout with Sierra West Structures

1235

Comments

  • ALCOALCO
    Magnum Opus! Bravo!
  • sdrees
    Thanks for the nice comments guys. Appreciate them very much. When you were here several years ago Terry, a lot of this scenery was not in place.
  • Mike EnglerMike Engler
    Really looks great- amazing how much progress you can make given more time to work on the layout. Hope I can see it in person some day.
  • brownbr
    Fantastic. Bet you get lots of oohs and ahhs when anyone walks in the room
  • adminadmin
    Exceptional. Always a treat to see your work. Since I am never going to have my own layout I cannot tell you how much I love seeing yours!
  • sdrees
    Hey Mike, the snowbirds are coming to Tucson. Are you one of them? Appreciate your comments. Also Brett and Bryan your comments are very welcome also
  • EmeryJEmeryJ
    Looking at this excellent layout is making me want to rip mine out and start all over. You sure did a great job on this. Thanks for sharing the pics!!
  • sdrees
    Here are several photos of what is left to do and pointing out the location of the area just completed completed. People ask me when I expect to finish the layout and my answer is probably never.

    EmeryJ, this was my first try at scenery and it is a whole lot of different skills. So I had to redo a lot of my work as I went along trying different methods until I did something that I liked. PXL_20201127_220922763
    PXL_20201127_221023162
  • CarlLaskeyCarlLaskey
    STEVE.
    VERY NICE LOOKS LIKE A GREAT ROOM FOR THE LAYOUT.
  • sdrees
    Thanks Carl, this is part of my garage. When I had the house built, I had the garage built to hold my cars and an experimental airplane I was building at the time. The way the rest of the design of the house came out, there was an extension of the third stall. So the measurements of the garage are 24' x 36' plus the extension so it made a nice space for the layout.
  • SonofVietnamSeabeeSonofVietnamSeabee
    That's what I like to see. A garage that cars don't go in to
  • sdrees
    Oh the cars go into, but not this area
  • sdrees
    OK, I needed some skeleton log cars for my logging operation. I scratch built 4 of these cars the past couple of weeks. The are short because the sawmill will only handle 24' logs
    PXL_20211003_230658587
    PXL_20211003_230712144
    PXL_20211003_230542285
    PXL_20211003_230242646
  • CarlLaskeyCarlLaskey
    STEVE.
    GREAT WORK THEY ARE PERFECT.
  • Jerry
    CarlLaskey said:

    STEVE.
    GREAT WORK THEY ARE PERFECT.

    I agree completely!!!!

    Jerry

  • KKarnsKKarns
    Wow, both the log cars and the layout are quite impressive!
  • adminadmin
    Those log cars are wonderful!
  • ALCOALCO
    Maybe some day you can post a blog about how you designed and built them! :-)
  • Robert.GRobert.G
    Some really nice log cars. And the back drop is great as well. As a matter of fact, the whole layout looks incredible. Fantastic job !!!
  • brownbr
    Those are nice.
  • CarlLaskeyCarlLaskey
    STEVE.
    I WANT TO PLACE MY ORDER I WILL TAKE FOUR PLEASE .WAY TO GOOD NOT TO ASK.
  • sdrees
    thanks everybody for your words of encouragement. Say Carl, the cars are on back order and I have no idea what the delivery date is.
  • CarlLaskeyCarlLaskey
    I THINK I HAVE HEARD THAT BEFORE. !!!!!!!!! HA
  • sdrees
    When I was doing the scenery on my layout, I used a Noch static grass applicator for applying the static grass. It dumped the static grass over everything when I was trying to do small area, and the grass didn't stand up very well.

    So I saw something like I am about to show on the internet and made my own static grass applicator.

    PXL_20210620_220222585

    I bought the grass king negative ion generator from Amazon. It puts out 15kv and the other parts from a local electronics supply store. I built it so that it could run on a 9v battery, or with a long chord and a AC/DC adapter with an output of 12volts.

    PXL_20210622_215702267

    PXL_20210622_220714028

    I purchased an artist spatula from an art supply store and wired it as shown in the picture below so I can plug it into the negative ion generator.

    PXL_20210622_220605655

    I also wired a small strainer as shown below.

    PXL_20210622_220410453

    When using the spatula, I first apply the static grass to small areas with my fingers as shown.

    PXL_20210622_222320430.MP

    Then I run the spatula across the static grass I just spread, and it stands up very well.

    PXL_20210622_222410029.MP

    I am very happy the way the static grass turned out on my layout with this system. If you want to highlight your base color of grass with another color of grass, you can easily do it with this method. When I have applied grass with the strainer, sometimes I go over the grass with the spatula to get more of the grass to stand up
  • ALCOALCO
    The stuff you can pick up on this Forum is mind-boggling!
  • kebmokebmo
    indeed!
  • SteveCuster
    Great work so far on the layout Steve! The static grass looks great!
  • sdrees
    Thanks Steve, since there was a big deal on the site awhile back about static grass, I thought that I would let you guys know what I came up with.
  • KCSTrainsKCSTrains
    Steve, that's amazing. I really like the spatula, but seriously doubt I have the electronic skills to pull off. You need to think about selling these things. Phil
  • KKarnsKKarns
    well done with a nice tutorial.
Sign In or Register to comment.