2. January 2021 HO Column Mountain Spur, Tunnel and Cutting construction completed

Column Mountain is now complete.

The mountain dramatically reduces the visual impact of the shed support post on the layout, it is now one of 2 focal points depending on which way the layout approached (from inside the shed of through the roller door).

Front View

Right Hand Side view

Left Hand Side view

Looking down the Cutting

Cutting with train

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1. January 2021HO Column Mountain Spur, Tunnel and Cutting construction continues

Column Mountain construction continues.

The foam shell has been coated with Acrylic House Render coloured with an oxide, this is the same as what I used on the G Division to make a couple of banks.  Ringbalin Light Railway G Division: Using House Render to make Cliffs/Cutting Walls (ringbalin-light-railway.blogspot.com)

Column Mountain Left Hand Side

Cutting through Mountain

Column Mountain Right Hand Side

Scenery will be added, I basing this on the "Glasshouse Mountains" because of the vertical shape; they are left over volcanic plugs

They were named by Capt James Cook in 1770; when he saw them they were wet from rain and reminded of the glasshouses of England.

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