Scale Model Railroad Trains

Planning Your Outdoor Garden Railroad - Part 7

Sculpture

It’s time to take your scale plan, scale scenes and all, and use t as the basis for a three-dimensional sculpture of your outdoor garden railroad. This will reveal all sorts of details that a two dimensional plan or aerial view just doesn’t show.

First step in this process is to create a model of your terrain. It is fairly simply to use layers of corrogated cardboard to represent each level of elevation for your back yard. If your yard slopes downward you’ll need to use several layers to represent the rise in the land’s height. If you have seen a topographical map. You may have noticed that there are lines representing the height of the land at each elevation. You want to create a similar thing for your backyard (site of your railroad. If you are using 1/4 inch is equal to a foot then use 1/8 thick cardboard to represent a 6 inch change in elevation.

After you have created your base, you can use clay or a mix of flour and salt  to show the shape of your track, hills, trestles, etc.

Have fun!

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