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I had originally planted to put a plate-girder bridge in this location but kept putting it off for later .. until later arrived. The day before leaving for the National Narrow Gauge Convention in Hickory NC I jumped through my butt and made this.
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 Having completely run out of time I grabbed a 1″x2″ board and glued that in place for the roadbed. I then looked around and found some green florist’s foam I had and glued that to the bottom of the roadbed .. and then roughly shaped the foam to it was ‘bridge shaped’.
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 Once the glue had set up I finished shaping it. I needed something to make it look like concrete so I mixed some Modge Podge and Sanded Grout and dabbed that all over the surface. One that had dried I covered everything in white latex. There were additional steps – the ‘normal’ filling with Spackle where gaps showed and so on .. but that was basically it.
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A coat of ‘Concrete’ latex and .. my gosh .. it looks like a bridge! This is how it looked prior to an AI wash and dry-brushing.
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 After I returned from the convention I added a walkway. I had originally thought to replace the bridge when I was constructing it out of foam but I have since changed my mind as it came out ‘just fine’ and am quite pleased with how it looks.
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Having completely run out of time I grabbed a 1″x2″ board and glued that in place for the roadbed. I then looked around and found some green florist’s foam I had and glued that to the bottom of the roadbed .. and then roughly shaped the foam to it was ‘bridge shaped’.
Once the glue had set up I finished shaping it. I needed something to make it look like concrete so I mixed some Modge Podge and Sanded Grout and dabbed that all over the surface. One that had dried I covered everything in white latex. There were additional steps – the ‘normal’ filling with Spackle where gaps showed and so on .. but that was basically it.
After I returned from the convention I added a walkway. I had originally thought to replace the bridge when I was constructing it out of foam but I have since changed my mind as it came out ‘just fine’ and am quite pleased with how it looks.
Very interesting scene. Very clever use of the dam under the bridge hidding the horizon.
Really great work.
Daniel
Thanks Daniel. That was a ‘lucky accident’ .. or something similar in that originally the dam was created simply to provide power to my coke ovens etc. It was only afterwards that I realized it would also hide the horizon line.
I just realized that I need to add stairs/steps on either end of the bridge for my little people. Oops.