With only a few weeks to the exhibition in Rodgau, I wanted to give the flooded quarry pits a nice prototypical look: Turquoise. >   < In the last step multiple coats of glossy varnish are added. The varnish does not have to be too smooth as there surface of the water might show some ripples.When I sprayed the bottom of the pit I did not cover the walls and that resulted in an overspray.

There is a large warehouse on the property of Wisconsin Building Supply in Sussex (WBS). If I would model the scene exactly to scale, I wouldn’t have to bother with it. But I wanted to have it on the module and moved it closer to the rails. Testing size and position with a template. Sidewall extended to fit the shape of the new structure. Google Earth view of the prototype structure.

There are two buildings on the Wisconsin Building Supply (WBS) lot, that visible in the modelled section. Right behind the fence, near the WBS spur is a “small” warehouse. It has a simple shape and is not too hard to build. Only drawback: It is positioned right above the joint of two modules, so it has to be removed for transport and storage. >   <>   < Walls with cutouts for doors and supports in the corners.

When I studied the satellite imagery of the area, I noticed that there is a ramp near the track on the lot of Wisconsin Building Supply. I was surprised. I had not noticed it before. But I like the idea. This makes a great spot for a second car that can be delivered there. To build the ramp, I took measurements in Google Earth. The ramp seems to be built of concrete.

The ground cover had enough time to dry and I could finally start with something of a higher level: The fence for WBS. Building an N-Scale Fence I choose to build the fence myself. I cut pieces of 0.6 mm spring wire into pieces. The wholes were drilled spaced about 5 cm apart. That might be slightly too far but attaching the mesh to the posts is not that funny so less fence post are less annoying.

The module has been used at a few meetings in 2017. This month I found the time to continue my work on the landscape. I wanted to mimic the look of an active lime stone quarry, where some rubble has been dumped. But I started with ballasting the track. Track is ballasted, let the scenery grow! Non-quarry areas covered with dirt. It takes a night to dry before I can add the green stuff and rubble.

After laying the track I started to create the base of the scenery. As a visual key feature this module should contain flooded quarry pits on two of the segments. A ramp leads from one segment into the first pit on the next segment. >   <>   <>   <>   <>   < Basic scenery for the quarry.The foam is covered using beige plaster and the bottom of the pits is painted in a color that is not too far away from the prototype.

After completing the woodwork, I installed the track on the segments for my new module. For an easy setup I installed positioning dowels between all segments before laying the track. While the glue for the track dries, I work on the scenery of another module. When laying track over a module connection I use a 1 mm sheet of styrene as spacer between the segments. My cut might go slightly wrong and this spacer gives me enough safety distance to make cuts between the modules without leaving an unwanted gap.

Just line modules, he said. Last weekend we had a construction meeting. Dirk was so kind to let us occupy is garage and workshop. A few days before I brought my workbench and some power tools and Dirk prepared all the parts we would need. Dirk hand built a jig to build curved modules and we used it to build curves with a track radius of 160 cm and an angle of 30 °.

For a long time, I had the idea to build a module with a quarry. Sometimes I just draw a track plan and later look for a matching prototype. This has proven to be very inefficient. The proper way seems to be finding a prototype and creating a concept and track plan to create it as a model. That’s what I did for this module. The Prototype The quarry Reproducing this prototype to scale would result in a quarry scene that is about 5 meters long and straight.