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Adding more details to the river scene on Jerry Franklin's Layout

Beginning to add clear resin to the creek bed in an area which will eventually be a small wetlands

Beginning to build the falls

Jerry Franklin's first "Operating Session"

A very happy client! Jerry Franklin operating his model railroad in O-gauge.

another view

Rushing Water Under the Bridge

Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum Magazine 2014

A better view!

Finally Finished with the O-Scale Depot on Jerry Franklin's Layout!

Great Northern & Cascade Railway Miniature Live Steam Train Rides

"Driving to Work" in the morning on a muddy dirt road.

O-Scale Grade Crossings

Making Miniature Muddy Roads

The small oaks in place and looking good!

Making tiny far background oak trees for forced perspective (O-scale layout)

Another Vintage Style Postcard I made for a customer depicting his railroad line.

Creating rock work on the narrow gauge

Rapids on Jerry Franklin's O-Scale layout get the "wet look"

I "vintage postcard" I created for a customers layout

Modeling Great Trees from scratch!

O-Scale project in Portland, Oregon.

O-Gauge Depot Interior Walls and Rooftop (kit by BTS)

HO-scale Diorama Restoration Project

BTS Depot Kit / O-scale

This is some of the roof detail I made for the second Roundhouse Model. I made it look like weathered asphalt / tar paper roofing. I made the tar paper with 1" masking tape. This was modeled in O-gauge approximately 1/45-1/48th scale.

Servicing Locomotives in the Roundhouse. Photo by O'Winston Link

Exterior / Interior shot of the finished O-gauge Roundhouse model I built from a kit produced by Ross Switches

Another Image of the Roundhouse for Scale!

Part Five: Finally Finished! Ross Switches O-Gauge Roundhouse Kit.

Crafting Realistic Looking "Young Ponderosa Pines" from bottle-brush type armatures!

Part Four: The Roundhouse Kit (O-Gauge)

Part Three: Building an O-Gauge Roundhouse Kit by Ross Switches in photos.

Pines in Progress

Young Ponderosa Pines in O-scale

Experimenting with "embers" for a forest fire scene

Part Two: Building a Roundhouse Kit by Ross Switches

Part One: Building an O-Gauge Roundhouse Kit by Ross Switches in photos.

R&D at ToddGamble.com / My mad scientist table of foliages I have replicated from nature.

Willow Tree in O-scale for a custom model railroad

HO-scale Oak Tree for foreground

Younger Ponderosa Pines, Sage and Fire Lookout ready for installation.

Experimenting with creating Ponderosa Pines for middle-ground perspective in O-scale

Fire Lookout Tower Complete (in HO-Scale) from a kit from the 1960's

More Gaming Maps for Game Masters I made in Photoshop! Day and Night versions!