In a follow on from tuesdays post, which you can read here its time to put some scenery base in for the Ackerville scene. This is the rough building blocks that will be used to for lanscape features to support track, roads and structures.

I started by slicing 70-80mm strips of 20mm foam to use for the WSOR mainline which is elevated above the rest of the yard.

These square blocks were then place roughly in position with the turnouts at the yards Northern end.

To get from the WSOR mainline into the yard I cut section of foam with a grade of 4% to drop the main from 20mm to 0mm height in 500mm. A small inset section was cut into the 20mm thick foam to allow the two sections of foam to come together.

Here is a side view showing the incline and height of the WSOR above the yard and CN main. It looks quite high but based on the images I found the line is about one fright cars height above so this is actually a little lower than reality but 20mm feels right and we are already compressing the scene so perspective is important.

The foam does’t go all the way to the backscene so that there can be fall away before the tree line as it is in real life. I kept adding foam blocks until I reached the Southern end of the yard.

The next job will be cutting the slope of the embankment into both sides of the foam blocks join us tomorrow to see how that comes out.