tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26302586805616906032024-03-12T23:29:53.014-07:00Z Scale Steam VenturesRomihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942140685008385079noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630258680561690603.post-80021648432808406842012-02-14T20:18:00.000-08:002012-02-14T20:18:52.329-08:00UpdateSo, this project has been halted for quite some time. Unfortunately due to a lack of space to do any work on it, we haven't really made any progress. <br />
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Have acquired a nice white castle for the board, though, which was a bit of a "wishlist" piece at the beginning. Planning on how we can incorporate it into the terrain we've built into the board ...<br />
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Hopefully we will now have some time and space in our new "hobby room" to get some work done! Looking forward to turning it into a nice little coffee table when it's finished!Romihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942140685008385079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630258680561690603.post-36434518419813650582011-03-09T04:33:00.000-08:002011-03-09T04:34:26.615-08:00The next step was to shape out the lake and make a tunnel for the train to pass through. We covered the foam with clay and the put a layer of plaster over the top to smooth the surface a bit.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We drilled some holes into the table where the town will be situated, though this will probably change somewhat when we get back to work on it. We've got a bunch of half-timbered buildings and a nice, big station - Neuffen. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Next step, sanding down the plaster! Hopefully more pics in the near future :-)<br />
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</div>Romihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942140685008385079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630258680561690603.post-83942557512244244912011-03-08T01:06:00.000-08:002011-03-08T01:08:25.675-08:00A sea of foam<div style="text-align: left;">Here are the beginnings of our Z scale layout. It was a tad tricky to get the polystyrene to stick to the other darker blue foam beneath (which was used to give the landscape height).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some places even warranted the ever-popular "squash with a telephone book" technique ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We used a regular craft glue, rather than superglue (disintegrating foam, anyone?), to stick down the foam and it appears to have worked well!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Romihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942140685008385079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2630258680561690603.post-1536228969574222842011-03-05T06:31:00.000-08:002011-03-08T01:08:11.627-08:00All aboard!Greetings all, and welcome to our new blog. Steam Ventures is dedicated to the Z scale model railway I am building with Christian.<br />
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Our model train is a Marklin German Federal Railroad (DB) class V 60 diesel locomotive (see link) <a href="http://www.marklin.com/start/pops/81567.html">http://www.marklin.com/start/pops/81567.html</a><br />
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This project was commenced in 2009. Here are some pics of the original planning phase for the layout.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was quite tedious to figure out how the tracks would best fit on the table and still have an interesting shape for the route. More photos coming soon! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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