1957 Catalog Layout Underway

Looking forward to watching your progress!

Peter

you're building this layout? 

that is awesome!!

Watch out for that trestle bent!

Andre

This just made my day! Miketg

Ground cover varies; you might want realistic thick and thin areas, abrupt ends and tapering, etc..  If you spread evenly and mask closely it becomes more abstract and toy like imo. Texture also makes standing figures hard

In general, I pile it on here and there, heavier in corners, etc,; less where people might be, and blow it "clean" once it's sticking well or dry.

Penn-Pacific posted:

you're building this layout? 

that is awesome!!

Yes! It is going to be close to this. I had to make a few adjustments from the original track plan but it is going to be very close. I also plan on moving the ZW and controllers off the top of the layout. Just cannot decide how I want to build the control panel.

And you are using Super O track! Cool!

Looking forward to watching this develop.

The layout shown by Penn Pacific is the 1957 catalog layout (look in the lower corner of the photo).  

Yup, the '57 catalog. I just took these pics of my copy.

Front cover:

Back cover:

Page 51:

Just updated thread title to reflect the correct year.

My goal was to try and keep the look of what a Lionel dealer display would have looked like from that era.

What it also needs are the asbestos floortiles and "modern" blue chairs. As a kid we had similiar red and white floor tiles in our basement where my layout was. Miketg

I saw one that was built for the 1994 40th anniversary TCA convention at York, using regular 0 gauge track. I think this was probably the ultimate dream layout for a lot of us kids back then. Good luck, and take lots of pictures for us!

Hi Mike,

I knew you had started on this. Looks great!

On my Lionel Dealer Display I sprinkled Lionel 990 "grass" on the green paint while it was wet. I used one of those shaker bottles from Woodland. Do a small area at a time.  I found that I put it on too "light" so went back to fill in.

Also... suggest doing this method on some scrap pieces of wood first for practice! It will help refine the technique. Good luck!

Can anyone with a 1957 Lionel catalog provide a full list of the Lionel products used, part of which is shown in the picture above.  Color photo doesn't make it real clear which products are used.

Thanks

Chuck

Here ya' go:

If anyone needs higher resolution pics let me know and I'll eMail them.

John,

Can you provide any details on how you built and painted your mountain? It looks great. 

Thanks,

Mike

Mike, super layout you are building!  I recall using paint and brown and green colored sawdust for my ground cover on my teenaged layout (roughly 1968-74).

Lew, you are the man with the plan!!  I never saw any of the old Lionel catalogs.  I lived a long way from a hobby shop and had inexpensive HO trains.

Mike M posted:

John,

Can you provide any details on how you built and painted your mountain? It looks great. 

Thanks,

Mike

Thanks, Mike.

First, have to admit that I did NOT use any of the old Lionel Display techniques for mountains. This was one area where I decided to go with an easier method and not use some of the materials that are faithful to Lionel. Basically, I used the tried and true cardboard latticework covered by plaster sheets approach. Strips of cardboard held together with hot glue to make the "frame" and then application of plaster sheets layered over.

To me, the big thing was trying to get the look of a Lionel Display with the colors. I used a variety of browns, greens, yellows and even some reds. Overlay the colors until I got the look I wanted. Very trial and error. I think it turned out well.

Edit...here are a couple shots of the finished layout. Btw, this is the Lionel D-105, 5x9 Dealer Display.

PRR1950 posted:

Can anyone with a 1957 Lionel catalog provide a full list of the Lionel products used, part of which is shown in the picture above.  Color photo doesn't make it real clear which products are used.

Thanks

Chuck