Before I could start the mountain and tunnel, I had to finish the track. First was paint. I experimented for a few days to find a method that covered quickly and looked realistic. Since my layout is right beside my furnace and hot water tank and and lacks ventilation, spray paint and enamels were out of the question. That left me with hand...











To be a bit thriftier, I decided to build my own tunnel portals of the 2 mountain tunnels. I built them out of styrene plastic and to my own custom size and specification so they fit my track and tunnels perfectly. I started out by measuring the sizes that they needed to be, then made a scale drawing on paper to show how...