How to Build a Scale Retaining Wall from Styrene

Рет қаралды 6,865

2 жыл бұрын

This is a video showing a step by step process of scratch building a retaining wall from styrene for model railroads or any type of model.

Пікірлер: 27

@randydobson1863 3 ай бұрын

Hi The Model Railroading The Southwest & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks The Model Railroading The Southwest & Friends Randy

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest 3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! Thank you for watching my video!

@gerlandkent6377 2 ай бұрын

[thank, you for youre great video]👍

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate the kind words!

@Scrimjer 2 жыл бұрын

Good to have you back!

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks dude!

@RFMCabooseNP1713 Жыл бұрын

Great job.

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@TheLEMRR Жыл бұрын

looks great

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@Chessie1985 2 жыл бұрын

Great review on backdrop Joe!!!

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Chessie1985 2 жыл бұрын

@@modelrailroadingthesouthwest You're welcome!!

@dundasjunctionmodelr.r-jam8267 8 ай бұрын

This looks great, one question, how does it bend around a curve , I need to build these for my layout

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes this is extremely flexible. You can see in some of my layout updates where I installed this up against the curve of the track. Thanks for watching!

@victorbertolina6545 Жыл бұрын

What was the paper covering the cutting board? Can the plastruct be bent to a sharp curve by heating with a heat gun?

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest Жыл бұрын

I put the wax paper down on the cutting board to prevent the glue I was using to get stuck to the cutting board. And also to reduce damage to the cutting board from the glue. I don’t think you need the heat gun to make it go around a sharp curve. The styrene is malleable enough to put it on a sharp curve. Now if you do use a heat gun be careful because the styrene gets very soft very quickly.

@cme8331 2 жыл бұрын

If I make a mistake instead of throwing it out I cut it up and use the pieces in a gondola to represent a scrap load.

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest 2 жыл бұрын

Great idea!

@Scrimjer 2 жыл бұрын

Some times if you scuff the styrene with some sand paper the cement works faster

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I’ll have to give that a go and see how that works.

@mitchellbennis9236 Жыл бұрын

Hi, just watched your video, super cool idea. I have an N scale switching layout and you made your wall 1 1/2 inch, maybe 3/4 to 1in for N scale? Thanks.

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest Жыл бұрын

I’m not entirely sure on how to convert from HO to N scale. Although you can scale down any size wall from 1:1 scale you want using this model calculator from Exact Rail. Check it out. It’s how I scale down objects from real life to HO scale. Here are some examples for N scale for wall height. 8’ Wall: 0.60” 10’ Wall: 0.75” 12’ Wall: 0.90” exactrail.com/pages/exactrail-calculator I hope this helps. Let me know if I can answer more questions. Thank you very much for watching my video.

@mitchellbennis9236 Жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for getting back to me, I went with 5/8s and it worked out fine. Thank you for posting this video, I never would have thought of it.

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest Жыл бұрын

@@mitchellbennis9236 I’m glad it was helpful! Let me know if I can help with anything else!

@mitchellbennis9236 Жыл бұрын

I would like to send you a picture of what I did?@@modelrailroadingthesouthwest

@modelrailroadingthesouthwest Жыл бұрын

@@mitchellbennis9236 sure my email is modelrailroadchief@yahoo.com