Polystyrene Day

Work on the viaduct continues at a snail's pace, however this weekend the Utrainia Engineering dept were proud to erect two out of the four (yes, it's growing) bridge towers. One is going to be the full 100 feet height, the other has a sloping base to accomodate the steep valley floor.

To the right you can see the beige bridge girders, produced on-site from patterns taken from the masters. The two remaining towers still need to be produced, and for these Management has grudgingly conceded that two more tower kits shall need to be ordered in from overseas. The paperwork is currently pending with the government paper-pushers.

Meanwhile, the civil engineering forces have been a little more productive. The base for the viaduct scene has been triangulated and is now very sturdy, so construction can move into the polystyrene phase.

Several pieces of the white stuff were duly cut and attached.

You can see that the left side has a thicker layer of polystyrene than the right; this will allow the valley to extend further in that direction.

Since the extra bridge bits will take a couple of weeks to arrive, and it'll be hard to place the terrain without them, I have started on another corner module. This one is loosely based on the Thompson River Canyon is Canada, a pretty amazing piece of canyon with a railroad clinging to the edge. It should be quite fun to make, and there will be no trees needed!

I already had the base made, so I cut out a piece of foamcore for the track to sit on then started cutting polystyrene to fit. Tiger decided to help me out a bit.

These bits were all nicely organised before a little kitten decided to help.

After a bit more gluing and a bit more feline assistance, I had this:

And this is what I'm after:

Should be a fun build, although I'm going to need a lot of rock molds!