City arch wall finished and installed

Nice arched wall, Al!

How did you do the arches over the openings?

WOW!   Very nice indeed!

Chief Bob (Retired)

trainman129 posted:

Nice arched wall, Al!

How did you do the arches over the openings?

Thank you guys.

Trainman

I cut 1" wide strips the length of the openings. Used the block to glue them in and keep them straight. 

The color and tone of your handsome new arch fits the landscaping and atmosphere of that area perfectly, CSX AL. I can see you are having a very good time of it.

You play nicely!

FrankM

Spectacular!  

Great stuff!!!

Looks really nice from WNY.

Very nice Al.  That's an awful lot of work to cut the bricks into the facade.

CSX Al posted:

Tonight I finished working on the arched wall and installing it onto the layout. I know the back of my legs are going to be killing me tomorrow, since I can already feel them aching. (Leaning over the 1st two level tracks to install) 

I installed the N scale Architect sheeting into the openings I wanted bricked in, then I cut a 3/4" plywood template to go into the arch. This allowed me something to hold the strip of brick sheet against while the hot glue cooled and keep the arch liners fairly straight.

I'll touch up any paint that has any hot glue around arch edges tomorrow.

 

Great work and some really nice granite showing in the third pic down.

Thank you everyone.

Tom, here is a view more to the left showing more of the rock work

Great work Al
Joe

Beautiful!

This looks great Al. Looks like your getting ready for the layout tours! Is it a go this year?

Not this year, next

Nice work Al!

Thank You Rich, how is your layout coming along? I have’t seen any recent photos.

Great work Al. The arch adds a nice feel to the entire scene.

Andy

Nice work. How did you make the brick face - is it Masonite?

Paul Kallus posted:

Nice work. How did you make the brick face - is it Masonite?

Thanks Andy & Paul. The walls are laser etched with the brick pattern onto 1/8" hardboard.