Hello - I finally made some progress on my ore mine. It took way longer than I thought but its coming together. I am hopeful I will get the rock wall painted today, since it is cold in WI - perfect trainyard day! I included a before photo also.
What's left to do -
Add ground cover, rocks etc
Build mine camp buildings
Ballast
Wire up the LED inside the lower tunnel
On the mine camp buildings, I struggle with scale. My layout is O scale but I am using HO for the mine scene. I may try to build something in between in terms of size.