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Building the HON3 RGS Pt1-BD
The HON3 version of the Rio Grande Southern is under construction in the two adjacent rooms to the HON3 Rio Grande. We’ll install Masonite hard board to all the inside and outside corners of both rooms, trowel the joints with joint compound, and paint an undercoat.
We’ll show you how to add over 100 feet of great backdrops from Backdrop Warehouse. Bench work was next using the “L-Girder” method. Then, the Goose Barn, the engine house tracks and the oil facilities at Dolores were plotted in.
Next, we’ll show the construction of the engine house at West Durango, we’ll build two tank farms, a small pump house, and a small office building near Dolores. We’ll lay the track for the Rico engine house and build a ramp to the coaling station at Rico, as well as the two coaling structures that were found at the end of the ramp.
Next, we’ll start on bench work for the Lizard Head and Ophir area where our bridges 45A and 45B will be located. Tracks ran around a deep valley at Ophir. At Ophir we’ll add a roll-out section to allow access to the back corner and wall. We’ll build the Ridgway bench work and lay track to include the turntable and roundhouse.
Next we’ll build those bridges at Ophir. Back at the Green Frog shops we’ll complete the turntable and roundhouse module for Ridgway. Back at Rico, we’ll color the scenery, zip texture the surfaces, and add grasses and weeds from Woodland Scenics.
We’ll install a unique retaining wall made from a bunch of plaster castings. We’ll also construct the town behind and above the mill, using N Scale structures!
Watch for Part Two of Building the HON3 Rio Grande Southern.
Approx. 61 Minutes
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Building the HON3 RGS Pt2-BD
In this program, we’ll cover the construction of the coaling ramp and the coal storage facilities at Rico. We’ll cover the construction of the Rico station and the smaller buildings in the same area. We’ll show you how we built the backdrop for
Rico.
We’ll scratch build a really neat structure of an “old” gasoline station of the 30's. Our artist Pat Lemmerman will blend in some hand painted scenery to our photo mural backdrop.
We’ll take on the task of adding the fascia board along a major section of the bench work. We’ll show you how we built hundreds of pine trees. We used photos of structures found in the area as a backdrop for our town of Rico. A neat looking house was found in the area, and we’ll scratch build that structure as well. We’ll add some additional scratch built structures as well as adding appropriate scenery.
The station and the water tank at Rico, will add to the scene. At Ridgeway, the railroad built a seven stall roundhouse, and we’ll show you how that was built, along with a turntable. We’ll add the bench work, fascia board, and the structures and scenery at Lizard Head. A bridge crosses over a small creek
in this area, and we’ll construct that as well as some scenery
in this area.
Since we’ll have some structures across the tracks at Rico, we’ll need to build a small road across the river. And we’ll continue adding more scenery to this area.
Order # 20150dvd Approx. 60 Minutes
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Building the HON3 RGS Pt3-BD
In this volume we’ll construct a curved timber trestle near the town of Ophir, and we’ll show construction of the scenery and scenic details of the Rollout section at Ophir. We show the construction of the Country store at McPhee. We run some trains at a regional NMRA Open House on Jim's layout.
The Mrs. Skillens store at Ophir will be featured, as well as the aerial tram and its related buildings. We will show some timber wall construction details at Ophir. We show the long trestle at Ophir, and the beautiful Finished scenery.
At the New Mexico Lumber Company, we’ll show construction of the sawdust burner and other facilities such as the large sawmill that served the area. We’ll build log loading and dumping facilities and retaining pond, and we also show construction of a Gallows turntable in this area. We will also show all of the updated changes that Jim has made to this Entire area.
Then we do the rounds on Jim's Entire Layout and show almost all of the Scenery and Structure Details at this point in time. We finally take a trip around Jim's complete Layout by following a train!
Order # 20152dvd Approx. 73 Minutes
