List,
A possible source (if they are willing to do it!) is to go
to a local screen printer (who uses a LOT of foamcore for signs) and ask if
you can have their scrap foamcore pieces. Explain what you are going to do
with it (make small building mock-ups for your model railroad). That way
they assume that you won't be in competition with their sign business!!
Worth a shot.
And if a personal friend works there, you might strike a gold mine.
IIRC, Brooks Stover showed this Foamville idea when he held an open house
at the 2006 NASG Convention in Pontiac, MI, and his Buffalo Creek & Gauley
RR buildings were in building stages & size was actually a physical S Scale
structure.
Alan Evans
The Ohio one J
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Peter Vanvliet
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 8:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: {S-Scale List} FNF: "Foamville"
(as opposed to "Plasticville")...
For those of you new to the list, "FNF" stands for "Friday Night Fun",
introduced by Andre Ming, IIRC, several years ago, where we share with
the group what we accomplished over the past week or so.
My contribution for this week's "Friday Night Fun" is the construction
of several foam board-based structure mock-ups. I am trying to model a
true prototype, a Pennsy branch line, so most of my structures will be
scratchbuilt. To get a feel for what the structures will look like, I
decided to use foam board to make some mock-ups. It is really a fun and
creative process. There's no "pressure" of wasting a lot of money if
you're not happy with the results. This allows for a lot of creativity;
it is kind of like doodling in 3D. I am looking forward to doing another
six or so structures. This will also help me figure out if the
structures get in the way of operating the trains.
I have added a page to my web site describing them:
http://pmrr.org/Layouts/Chartiers/CanonsburgStructures.htm
Have a great weekend,
- Peter.
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Peter Vanvliet ([email protected] <mailto:pavanvliet%40att.net> , or
[email protected] <mailto:peter%40fourthray.com> )
Houston, Texas
"It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..."
http://pmrr.org/ (my model railroad - RSS feed <http://pmrr.org/rss.xml>)
http://fourthray.com/ (my company)
http://houstonsgaugers.org/ (model railroad club)
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