For grass, I’m using 6mm static grass from Silflor and Noch, and a Noch GrassMaster to apply it. While it’s more expensive than ordinary ground cover, I find the results to be far and away superior to anything else I have tried. It is not always tall as I’d like, but 6mm gives me the feel of plains grass in the spring. I completely filled in the hole, because I wanted to display some Minnesota farm and grazing lands as well as some of my wife Renee’s magnificent scratchbuilt buildings and houses. As we continue working on the layout, we will continue to fill this area with buildings and details.
The new section is nearly 12 feet across but we made the panels on the inside removable to be able to access the middle when needed. I built the 3-inch scale riding railroad on the original non-removable table while I built the barn and roadway over the blue Styrofoam fill sections. We are extremely pleased with the end results of our filled-in area. It gives us a much greater sense of the Minnesota plains we know and remember.
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10: Here’s the finished scene, with the entire hole filled in with the Styrofoam lift out. The joints are not too noticeable, and it looks a whole lot better than before with the open access hole! Page 87 • Dec 2012 MRH
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11: Another view of the finished dogbone end, with the center Styrofoam access hatch in place. If you know what you’re looking for, you can find the access hatch seams, but I consider the insert, seams and all, to the look of an empty access hole. Ray Grosser MMR 362 has been model railroading since his first train in 1948. Renee Grosser started scratchbuilding her structures in 1992 first in HO and then in O scale. She scratch built all but a few of the structures on the O scale Nostalgia Trip railroad and this layout is just a display pedestal for her work. Tell a friend ...
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