A fascia comes to the micro layout
Hi All,
I was able to get a little more work done on my micro layout.
This is a very portable micro layout and I would like to have it travel about when finished....including perhaps the kids in Haiti.
So one of the things the micro needed was a fascia to hide all that pink foam used in its construction.
Since this is a "pioneer" layout for me in many ways I decided to forgo the usual masonite fascia and make this one look like corrugated metal to accent all the rusted corrugated metal on the buildings on the layout.
Real corrugated metal would be too heavy so I scoured the internet looking for plastic substitutes. What I found was a green corrugated garden edging roll for about 5 dollars.
It was painted with a gray primer and then the same craft paint acrylics I used on the buildings were used to get the streaky rust effect.
The light weight rusted corrugated "metal"/plastic was affixed to the layout using construction adhesive pinned with real nails in to the foam.
Here are some pictures of the end results. Let me know what you think.
Next project will be installing a sound system for the locomotives to make some noise in the mountains of Haiti.
Doc Tom