The Loon Lake Railway & Navigation Company
Two Shays and a Heisler await assignment at the railway’s shop in Cascade (above). A turntable is located just to the left of the en- gine house. The backdrop was painted by Greg Grey. The station
mature material, a sagebrush tree has a thicker trunk that tends to be more proportional to the finished tree. The rock slopes are a mixture of cast plaster and resin using both Bragdon Enterprises’ and home-made rubber molds. The talus on the rock slopes is a local limestone.
The harbor I debated a long time over what method to use for water in the harbor. I rejected pouring epoxies like Envirotex because of their tendency to creep up on everything. After a lot of experimenting I chose an artist’s gel medium, specifi- cally Golden’s “Soft Gel (gloss).” It has a slow curing time so you can work it to achieve great effects like bow waves and a wakes around the boats. I painted the harbor base an appropriate color, then simply stippled the gel on top with a brush. Once I was happy with the ef- fect I dropped the wharf in place. Next, a styrene footprint of each boat was cut out and glued temporarily in place be- fore the gel was applied. After the gel had set up I removed and discarded the styrene and inserted the boat into the resulting depression. The effect is of wa-
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at Rock Harbor (below) is a kitbashed Banta Model Works Tel- luride Station with the clapboards individually applied over the milled siding provided with the kit. This creates added texture.
ter coming up to the edge of the boat, and the boat is removable. The LLR&N steam tug, Ventrice O., is a Lindberg 1:72 scale model of a U.S. Coast Guard diesel tug. The hull was modified to be a waterline model and the superstructure was rebuilt to S scale us-
ing styrene; it was backdated to look like a steam tug. The Cannery Tender Kathie Suewas scratchbuilt by Spencer White.
Structures The structures are mostly scratch- built of wood or styrene. A few are
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