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 Posted - January 31 2013 : 9:32:02 PM
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ok today, I will present a tutorial onhow to make a rock hill, mountain, quarry using ceiling tile
you can either buy a sheet of tile from your local home improvement center, or, like me grab it out of the trash bin at work
here's a sheet of tile
now simply break a piece off
then simply put it where you want your "rocks"
keep stacking till your satisfied with the height, you can glue them in place (with some white glue) or like me leave it loose until its senicked
then hit the airbrush (or paint bomb) and just paint all over it, don't worry about eveness, as rocks tend to be different shades, I use SP lark grey, but any kind of grey will work
the scenery was done by using demagnetized and sifted decomposed granite. here's two buckets of "prepped" granite, you can find this in hilly or mountain areas (midwesterners....I wish I could help you on where to find decomposed granite) sifting was done by pouring it into a screened bowl (i think it was a collander from the dollar store) and shaking the collander into a bucket with the bigger leftovers going into another bucket.
to apply the scenery I first saturated the area with "wet water" (water with a drop of dish detergent, in a spray bottle) then used an old flour sifter to apply the "dirt"
then I added the "bigger rocks" to give it a more rocky look
finally I wet it down again and then sprayed a 50-50 glue water mix (the cave was unintentional but it looked cool  )
you may have to go over it a few more times, first "soaking" it and then adding the glue-water mix.
NOTE: when you are done, run the glue-water sprayer with the wet water to clean it I learned the hard way!
there you have it, and now rock ridge has a.....rock ridge!
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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Posted - February 01 2013 : 03:41:02 AM
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Put teeny bones outside that hole.
If this was a "cut" for passage, you may want to add vertical slices from a narrow or jewelers file.
A narrow-shallow ditch between the bottom of the rock-face and rail-ties... a small culvert for possible "spring-found" locations just above.
Nice job! 
John
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Posted - February 01 2013 : 10:21:35 AM
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That looks great! I'll have to remember the tile trick for future use.
On my N scale layout I used stone dust (very fine gravel) in the same way you used the granite. I think I fixed most of it down with construction adhesive. Then when that was dry I hit it with the glue-water mix.
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Posted - February 01 2013 : 5:24:35 PM
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for fun add a dinosaur fossil I dunno where you'd get one tho 
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Posted - February 01 2013 : 9:53:57 PM
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Anchor, Bilz Demming: "Tonight on WRGC 5 News, U.S. Army Captain Ray Diamondsworth, Finds Prehistoric Bones In Nearby Cave-Site..."
Tourist Railway, West Covina Pacific, Cashes In By Treating Passengers To New Scientific Dig Specials."
These Stories And More At 11!"
Tiny ribbon tape squaring off the location. Media and University vehicles camped out nearby.
It's possible. And all from that "oop's" hole. Layered rock like that is generally sedimentary... sandstone... a lot of fossils are found between these layers... could have been a cave from a coyote den... you mentioned granite... decomposed granite... I didn't know granite could decompose... anyway, I believe you can make this a "real" model scene.
About 50 miles away from where I presently live, around 15 years ago, a highway curve was being broadened and made level. When the construction company's excavator dug into an inside-curve rock face, it exposed a treasure trove of agates, crystalline, and volcanic rock...
My point is, the news media was notified, who then broadcast that the highway department was going to, besides still maintaining limited traffic, halt their work three days so that the rock hounds and college/university students could pick away and get their fill...
John
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Edited by - zebrails on February 01 2013 10:32:53 PM
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Posted - February 02 2013 : 09:11:26 AM
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Inner-Space Cavern - http://www.myinnerspacecavern.com/home.php
"Inner Space Cavern was discovered by a Texas Highway Department core drilling team in the Spring of 1963. While drilling through 40 feet of solid limestone, the bit broke into what is now known as Inner Space Cavern. An adventurous employee of the highway department was lowered into the hole while standing on the drill bit and holding tightly to the stem. He was the first human being to enter INNER SPACE. "
This is something to see - the hole that the worker was lowered through was in the middle of the cavern - and the light from his flashlight did not reach some of the far walls.
So - if you have a nice size space open underneath your layout with a road running nearby, you could be the first to model the caverns. The reason the highway was drilling holes was that they needed to build an overpass for the highway. The terrain in the area is fairly flat.
Cheers
Bill
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Posted - September 27 2013 : 5:54:59 PM
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quote:for fun add a dinosaur fossil I dunno where you'd get one tho
Originally posted by microbusss - February 01 2013 : 5:24:35 PM
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Go eat catfish on Friday night. Then you' have some old bones worth talkiing about!
RBNicholson
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Posted - September 27 2013 : 6:11:53 PM
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Ray,
I used to use the ceiling tiles in sort of the same way, never made rock out cropings but those look GREAT! A little vegetation will make that look even better, and possibly some "still water between the first (lower) level of tile, and the nearby tracks (drainage ditch) and some short trees here and there and it will be 100% professional, without the cost of that sort of "sold" materials!
NICE work!
~John
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Posted - September 28 2013 : 11:09:23 PM
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quote:| the scenery was done by using demagnetized and sifted decomposed granite. here's two buckets of "prepped" granite, you can find this in hilly or mountain areas (midwesterners....I wish I could help you on where to find decomposed granite) |
As a Midwesterner, I'd take another approach than decomposed granite. In my sedimentary world, I'd find some crumbled shale at the foot of a shale cliff and use that instead. It would go well with the horizontal strata of the ceiling tiles.
Carpe Manana!
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