Building Trestles and A Diorama Base With Ken Patterson

Building Trestles and a Diroama Base with Ken Patterson

In this Video we Build Lightner Creek Trestle On the Rio Grande Southern railroad. Mile Post 159 Bridge 160A.

We also cover Building a large scale trestle in a segment of the video to show how these skills can be used in any scale.

We Cover Trestle Jigs, I walk you through the process of topography, The wood structure construction. The steel girder construction. Finished scenery And A Base wrapped in black oak that will not flex and looks very professional with a finish you can apply to your entire layout.

We recreate the Famous Robert Richardson photograph of K27 464 plowing snow accross Lightner Trestle on one of its last runs in 1952. the trestle has US Highway 161 running through the structure under steel girders. we cover  blacktop road constructon.Scenery application, making a creek with Envirotex. All these subjects can be applied to your modeling skills

Professionally edited in to what came out to 1 hour & Five Minutes long lesson in Bridge Building,Scenery construction and photography. $19.95 for the entire download.