Live steam micro layout

Shawn

Shawn

Hiking, cross country skiing, snowshoeing
For a while now I have been thinking about building a small micro layout to run my Cricket on. Seeing what Vic has done inspired me to do the same. Its going be a small logging layout with a sawmill on one siding. The track will be hand layed (it will be good practice for when I do my next outdoor layout). I want to put some tall pines in the layout and also a gully for a trestle. Some rock ledges on the outside edges.
So far the track is don. Ties were stained with golden oak and then I added a black wash. The switches are Arsito. I painted the ties to match the real wood ones. I think its fairly close. Trestles are completed and the next step is ballast.

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Its been a while since I did anything to the Micro. This past week I started building the Sawmill. (I plan on building another sawmill like this for the outdoor layout but larger) Still need some details to do inside and then it will get some heavy weathering. The Carriage is a Lionel flatcar and tin plate track.

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Looks very nice Shawn well done ;D
 
Stunning stuff Shawn. Love it :)
Thought about installing a circuit running off my indoor "steam-up" area around the perimiter of my living room. My friends threatened to have me certified. Our local 16mm NGM group is now starting to get the bits together for an indoor portable track though.
Max.
 
:outterly brillant.. love it
 
What a cutee.....The saw mil really works in that space. It also 'hides' the loco as it passes behind so making the wee little layout seem a little bigger
 
Very impressive. The way you videoed the loco at a low angle, and close up. does not make the layout appear so micro.

David
 
Brilliant - and just enough rolling stock. :D
 
I made some more progress. I got most of the Sawmill completed. I got some scultamold to fill in the gaps etc... I also started making some pine trees using wooden dowels. I first shaped them using a table saw, then I roughed the trunks up, by running the blade up and down. Then it got stained with some dark walnut stain. The next step was to add the branches. I was originally going to use dried fern like the Asparagus fern but I could not find it anywhere in my area. Someone sent me something he found that was comparable. Im not sure the name of it but it is in the Ashland fern collection. What I really liked about this stuff is that it is plastic rather then dried up material. I thin for what I was doing I needed something that could handle being packed away. The ferns were attached and then sprayed with krylon camo green spray paint.



So far this what they look like. I still have a little more playing around to do, to get the look im after. I also need to make trunks/roots on the bottom. I have to get some more ferns to complete the last two trees.







Pictures are not great, too much clutter in background.

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Looking very good, very good indeed.

Is it just the light on the ferns, or have you set out to achieve a snow/frosty effect?
 
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