Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Adding the bounding streets

Suggestions of roads and sidewalks bounding the community garden were added to two corners.
The road+sidewalk insets were built up from scraps of styrene.

I like my layouts to incorporate suggestions of a wider world beyond their boundaries. On the Loonar Module it was a spur that went to the shore, the Centennial Experimental Farm had the loop of track that went through the farm connect to a streetcar line on the main road, and on the Mount Lowe layout there was a road to a parking lot that lead back to the main mountain road.

Slices of foam were cut from the base to accept the road+sidewalk insets.

On this layout I've added little pieces of the two actual roads that bound the community garden. The job of the train is to move people and things from these stops to garden plots.

The road+sidewalk insets are a maximum of 5mm thick.
Painting and weathering will be revisited once more scenery is in place.

Yes, those rails embedded in the road are supposed to be for streetcars. No, there are no streetcars servicing the real community garden. This is all wishful thinking on my part :-)

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