Module 4 Dakota-City

 

Fig. 1 - The Dakota City side gets a modeled terrain strip at the front module edges. 4x1cm thick wooden strips were delivered by our club carpenter Rico in the required lengths. After Bernd had drawn the strips, Andy cut them out in the desired terrain shape with the jigsaw. Since the slats had warped due to lying for a long time, there was nothing to do with simply gluing them on. But Andy has a solution for everything! Leiste anboren, glue on and screw on!

 

Fig. 2 - Strips were also attached to the edges of the modules. After that, cut styrofoam strips. The styrofoam was cut into the desired shape with the hot cutter and covered with plaster bandages. Almost! Of course, the plaster bandages were missing for the last meter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 3 - The plaster bandages were then painted with an olive-colored binder paint. The bridge embankment seen here, already completed, was worked in. The strip between the main tracks and the siding tracks has also already been given its first green. At the end of the module is still the temporary transition to a main track. We can't change this at the moment, because there is not enough space for a double-track curve to the Lotzburg part of the layout in Bernd's living room. The next carnival weekend is the time again! We build up.

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 4 und 5 - The rear part of module 4 with the bridge and the electric motor factory receives the first greening. Between the bridge wall and the buildings that can be seen, there is still a storage building that was removed because of the greening of the area. The area in front of the one-story annex will still receive a concrete floor. The track will be embedded in the concrete floor again. A trestle crane will also find its place here.

 

 

Fig. 6 - The already applied base coat green receives a 2nd layer. This is glued here by Andy wet in wet.

Fig. 7 - The buildings of the electrical factory are finished. The roofs are also painted. Andy has "concreted" the forecourt. How, is further above under "loading road of concrete". Also, the new owner of the building has already moved in! Habia Cable - a Swedish specialty cable manufacturer! If you visit your submarine, airplane, leopard tank or nuclear power plant in the basement soon! Habia-Cable is certainly already there.

 

Fig. 8 - The new forklift at work. The first cable drums from Sweden have arrived, by train of course! The forklift still gets its company logo.

Fig. 9 - The concrete surface closer again! Now follows the fencing and remaining greening. A trestle crane is also to be built.

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 9a - The company Habia-Cable and more has finally received its reloading crane. In addition, the yard incl. fence is completed.

 

 

 

 

Fig. 10 - The edge of the module has its first green. After Andy glued the entire surface, Bernd applied Woodland Blended Turf mixed with sand and Asoa grit with the sieve. The coarser components of the turf remaining in the sieve were loosely distributed on the surface (weeds!).

Fig. 11- After drying off (time for chatting, drinking coffee, eating cake, goofing around with Indi and Dakota!) Andy uses the table vacuum to suck up the loose material, which of course can be reused.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fig. 12 - Next, darker green turf and earth-tone turf from Woodland, flakes from Keki, clumbs from Wodland, and various Asoa sand and grit varieties are sprinkled on. The last to follow is Heki foliage in dark and light green tones (shrubbery). The temporary track connection disappears with the construction of the next module.

Fig. 13 - Andy has now coated the whole thing with highly diluted white glue after spraying it with water. Looks at first glance very precarious. But after drying (24 hours), the result is a look like in picture 12, only in solid! With this, the Dakota scenery is finished. Now small parts are added to the scenery.