First Attempt At Bridge Building - with Pics UPDATED MADE TUNNEL PORTALS TOO!

This really turned out great!!  thanks for the step by step process!

Alan

Very nice Owen.

jim r

Yes, that turned out pretty nice.  Will make a great addition to the layout.  What did you use to cut out the brick work?

Rick

Great work! 

RICKC posted:

Yes, that turned out pretty nice.  Will make a great addition to the layout.  What did you use to cut out the brick work?

Rick

Started by drawing on in pencil, then scored with xacto knife, then used the wooden thing below to deepen the lines and create relief 

Turned out very nice, and another thanks for the step by step. That really helps all of us that have never done anything like this before.

Excellent!  

Great looking Bridge! I sure hope I can do something that good when it comes time!

Well done!

Peter

Looks great!

Jim

Excellent!

Isn't pink foam great?

I like the coloring of the bridge and the way you varied the blocks adding detail to them. Great job................Paul

Owen,

How about a side view picture of the "working" end of your grooving tool?

Did the pink foam relax any after you made the grooves? I'm wondering if you needed to go deep and then the foam relaxed a bit giving you the depth you wanted.

Thank you for posting these pictures!

My favorite tools for carving pink foam came in a cheap manicure set. You can find them at the thrift store or a dollar store

Really neat technique. I like how it came together.

Excellent. And don't forget the pointed pier cap at the foot of the bridge that directs the water and floating debris around the pier.

Mike,

Really nice work. That is the sort of tutorial that OGR or CTT like to use for magazine articles.

Sean

Some updates:

I started the other side of the bridge this evening. This side won't be seen so, while I wanted to detail it anyway, I was less precise in putting it together.

Here is side 2 with some paint

Glued to the bridge with some foam glue

I still want to do more detailing on both sides, especially with some of the pastels and weathering powders I just bought, but for now I decided to test out some scenic materials to see how it is going to look:

There is still a lot of tweaking to do, but happy with the way it is progressing. Decided to test fit some track and see how it will look when it's done!

You gotta be happy with that. 

Great job

Did you use any pattern to maintain the curved culvert shaping from side to side

Seems like that consistency would be hard to achieve

You did it well

j

First attempt?  Ha!  That bridge looks fantastic!!  Nice work!

Can I used this method to make 17 linear feet of it? Looks really good!

Neat!! 

jpc posted:

Great job

Did you use any pattern to maintain the curved culvert shaping from side to side

Seems like that consistency would be hard to achieve

You did it well

j

No, no pattern, just used a small plate to mark out each side. The culvert shaping is less than perfect at the moment, so there are some fixes I need to make there, maybe tonight!

Trainman2001 posted:

Can I used this method to make 17 linear feet of it? Looks really good!

Sure you can!   Mike is clearly a master (despite his modesty), but even we mortals can make pink foam look like almost anything.  Here are some examples from my layout:

Looking good.  Working on a rendition of Carrolton Viaduct here and should have some pics to post soon. Used a similar technique to that shown here.

Owen,

How about a side view picture of the "working" end of your grooving tool?

Did the pink foam relax any after you made the grooves? I'm wondering if you needed to go deep and then the foam relaxed a bit giving you the depth you wanted.

Thank you for posting these pictures!

That is some awesome work!   

Outstanding effort!

Wonder if the engineers who came up with the idea for insulation foam had any idea how useful it would be for modelars

Very useful thread

Thank you

j

Thanks all - here it is in context as the layout starts to come together - it will eventually have 2 tracks when the 2 switches for the inner loop arrive 

Wow!! Great job.

Here's some more fun stuff I've been working on!

@Avanti posted:

My favorite tools for carving pink foam came in a cheap manicure set. You can find them at the thrift store or a dollar store

I was searching for info on carving foam and found this quote from Avanti. The light bulb came on!  A quick search under the sink in the bathroom produced a long forgotten manicure set. Thanks for the tip!

John

Really inspiring work!