For a while now I have been wondering to put at the end of a spur that I have. I wanted some kind of bufferstop (if that is the word? English isn't always easy for a Swede nor a swede 
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Anyway I started to think how a real railroad would have done it. I imagined that I would have sleepers and soil laying about from the construction of the railroad. So the construction department got some navvies to round up second rate sleepers and start showeling.
First I made a frame of Evergren.
This gave me the general shape. I tried to angle the triangular parts so that the tip was further from centreline than the base. I hope that description made sense.
On this I glued strips of Evergreen. This took some tinkering but with a pair of tweezers and the point of a scalpel it turned out OK.
Having gotten all the little strips in place I had to paint the bufferstop. I used Polly Scales Japanese Imperial Army brown. I like this colour because it give a rather dark colour that, to me looks, a bit aged. Especially when I give it a quick dab of Grimy Black. After that I just had to place it on the railroad and fill it up with sand.
It bit of testing and it seems that it works. A nice little project that in all took two evenings.
/Peter
Joined: 2005-05-28