2. Five Minute Workout
I almost had to force myself to start modeling again. Depression, physical issues and a host of other reasons (some admittedly contrived) held me back. It was a short editorial by a friend on The Railwire about the health benefits of modeling that got me off my ass.
I call this a "micro-diorama" for what should be an obvious reason: it's tiny, 4 by 10.5 inches. The length was fixed by the combined pieces of Zn3 track, and the width was arbitrary. And I just so happened to have a scrap of foam insulation that was the perfect starting point. Here are the main ingredients posed on the foam:
Laying the track involved nothing more than some double-sided foam tape.
By sheer luck, I happened to have freight cars quite close to those in the photo, and by even bigger luck, they fit perfectly on the piece of Railcraft Code 40 flex cut to fit the base.
The next step is to fill in the terrain with ballast and Sculptamold. But this is where things stopped.