Over the past two years I've regularly 'seen' my Z scale Wassen layout but haven't done much to it. There are a few projects on the go, but there hasn't been all lot of progress for a very long time. Recently I have been tinkering with NZ trains again, but ...
Inexplicably, I decided to do something on Wassen today.
Other than some repairs needed to rewind several years of being stored vertically in a basement that isn't always dry, three obvious things need to be done. These are adding more buildings to the town, and doing something with.the two front corners, which have remained oddly unscenicked.
I decided to start with the corner closest to the door of the room the layout is hiding in. This is the 'upper' Wattinger bridge over the Reuss river, but in its current unfinished state, it is not a great first impression of the layout.
Above: some white plastic padding attached to the bridge before adding the sides. All of the 'visible' track on the layout is flex track except for this corner (and of course the hidden spirals)
Some basic grass has been added in places under the bridge, and the its stone 'sides' are being added. These are the same photoshopped pictures printed out for the lower Wattinger bridge about seven years ago! Ballast is about to be glued down between the Rokuhan plastic track roadbeds.
Next it was time for tunnel portals. I'm almost out of the old dark grey Ratio roof slate sheets that were used for the other stone portals, but as this is a relatively self-contained little scene, I decided to use some cardboard cobblestone street sheets that I bought for my
N scale Brusio viaduct (another barely started project!)
And compared to the real location in the superb VGB Gotthard book:
Some trees, foliage and Woodland Scenics tallus rocks in the river will have the corner looking better than it did yesterday.
I noted in the previous post (two years ago) about the upcoming Marklin Re 6/6. Two years later there is still no sign of these!
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