One of the new parts of the upgraded yard will be the slightly relocated car shop that is now also serving as the caboose servicing area. I wanted a large concrete area between tracks where you could have lots of little detail bits and repair work going on. When choosing a material, I've been using a lot of insulation foam as of late, and I found it worked well. This particular piece was a thin section of one of the "fan fold" types that I often use for walls and detail bits.
| Here's the test fitting of the foam piece. The caboose track is the angled track closest and the car repair (RIP) track is along the back wall. |
| Another angle. |
| Here you can see the little triangular piece I cut so the pad would stretch to the end of the caboose track. |
| So here's the starting point, a plain piece of foam. |
| Added in some cracks. |
| Went over everything with primarily some white chalk with some browns and black here and there to tone all the lines down. |
| The foam glued in place. |
| And with the building back on and a few cars. |
| Another angle. There are more detail bits now, but these photos are from almost a month ago at this point. |
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