ON30 Project Layout

Very nice!

Follow this link to the post on the Layout Design Forum.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/d...ent/4527055142333783

Jan

A couple of projects that I have been working on.  Not much going on at the layout as this is live steam running seaon!    Russ

Russ

Russ

Great looking photos, especially the roundhouse.  How di you build it, scratch, kit?

mike

Mike it is a one of a kind.  It's made from sintra which is a pvc plastic used in the sign industry.  It comes in 4'x8' sheets in different thicknesses and colors.











The neat part of working with pvc plastic is the low cost of the glue!  You use the big can of goop found in your local hardware stores plumbing department.  Russ

Another structure almost complete.  Russ

Made from the same pvc plastic material sintra.

Very nice looking work.  Sintra.  You say it is used in the sign industry.  How does it compare to styrene for cutting?  Where can it be purchased?  Thanks.

Happy Model Railroading,

Mark Boyce

Butler, Pennsylvania

I think the closest to you would be:

Laird Plastics

I comes in sheets and most distributors have means of cutting it into smaller sheets.  I order a 48 x 96 and have it cut into 4 - 24 x 48 pieces for UPS shipping to me.  I have NO local dealer  / dist.  It comes in colors and 1/8th, 1/4 etc thickness.  It cuts similar to styrene but is just a little more flexible and softer.  It is PVC so it glues up with regular PVC pipe cement / glue and does so very quickly .  It drills, sands, files easily, etc,.  It takes just about any kind of rattle can paint I've tried.  It takes lighter colors if first primed.  Once glued it is very strong, and I have even used it outdoors for G scale structures as it is UV safe and stable.  Russ

Russ,

Thank you for the information about Sintra.  I will have to try it.

Mark

If you have a scroll saw what I have done in the past is to print out the building or whatever from my printer and stick that to the plastic and then cut it out.  A trick I learned from the scrollers is to put packing tape or masking tape on the piece and then spray with 3M adhesive and stick on the printout.  The packing / masking tape makes cleanup easy.  No scroll saw then use a good straight edge and a sharp knife.  I use #10 xacto for the thin stuff and a utility knife with a new blade for the thicker stuff.  Russ

Thanks again, Russ.  Interesting read on the scroll saw method, but I will have to resort to the trusty old X-Acto knife I've been using since the '60s.  New blade of course. :-)
Thanks,
Mark