Working on the peninsula and a bit of lighting

Now here's my week update, not much but moving along.

I've been working on the elevations on the peninsula and build the overhead for my lights.

     I received my RGB LED strip and wanted to see how it would look. I control the colors from a little remote. I'll probably have to put foil paper on the bottom of the overhang to make it more brighter.

Here's a look at Dawn and Dusk.

Here's a look at Day.

Here's a look at Night.

     Right now the colors don't do it justice because my walls are blue, but with a nice background, and increase brightness, it should be ok. What do you all think?

Late

Covered bridge "How to" video

It's finally done.
Here's the "How To" of my covered bridge.
Enjoy and any comments or questions are welcome.

Later

Container yard is done and so is the covered bridge

Weekend update

     Finished laying the tracks from the lift-out to the small town. All elevation work now has track. In the following weeks I'll be working on new elevation from the town to the small refinery (includes peninsula), preparing all the feeders for the track that have been installed. 

     Also finished weathering the covered bridge and assembling the track base to the bridge. It is removable so that I can do the landscaping much much later. 

Later all and thanks for dropping by

P.S. The How to of my covered bridge is almost done. I manage to condense 6 hours of video into 30 minutes. The only thing left is adding voice to the video, which should be done this week.

First update video

Here's a small video of what I've done so far on my track work.
Small train ride pushed by hand...lol

Later

Been busy, backdrop, electricity and a bridge

Latest update:

      Been sick ....you know..... a man's cold, but the last few days, I've been hard at work. I don't have much to show, been testing a few things such as a backdrop and some wiring of tortoises.

     I have a color printer and thought "hey maybe I could do my own backdrop", I'm pretty at ease with Photoshop, why not give it a try. I did look up Backdropjunction and for what I would need, it would cost me about $2,700 (about 170 feet). As for painting, I can draw straight lines only...lol. Here's a look.

     You all know that I'm a big "zero" when it comes to electricity or electronics, well, I'm no longer a zero, but maybe a 10 (that's out of 100). I manage to hook up two tortoises together with one switch and it works fine. I've been having no success with my tortoises last year because the wire wasn't stiff enough to move the turnout, so I did a bit of research and read that I should remove the spring in the turnout. I did that for both turnouts and voila, it works. Can someone confirm that I did right by removing the spring, because without a tortoise, that turnout is no longer good.

     I've also been working on my other bridge, a trestle bridge which is almost done and trying to come up with some sort of design for my river/falls under those two bridges.

     Lastly, I'm working on finishing the video on how I build my covered bridge. I had to condense a 6 hour video into 45 minutes and now I just need to narrate the whole thing, so maybe another 2-3 weeks before I'm done with it.

      It just seems that I did lots, but don't have much to show. Hoping to have more done on the layout by my next update.

Thanks for following, later.