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CEO Eric Stoumpos
City, Country Forest Hills
State/Prov NY
Scale
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Name of Layout Forest Hills

A town set in the 1950's - nestled in the hills. The entire layout has a little bit of everything: a bustling, growing town, passenger train station and platform, bridges, tunnels, church on a hill, waterfall, working crossing gates with sound, bustling train yard, roundhouse, coaling station complete with workers everywhere and let's not forget the sanding station as well as a factory in the valley -- all surrounded by extensive trees and greenery.
First I measured how much space I had available to use. Next I designed the track layout with R&R track software. When I was happy with the result on the screen, I proceeded to build the table top using 2x4s as main supports and 4x8 half inch plywood sheets. The L shaped layout is 12 feet long on one side and 9 feet long on the other. The 12 foot side is 6 feet wide and the 9 foot side is 4 feet wide. Once table was done, I set up the pre-ordered track with all digital decoders installed. I ran trains on tracks to be sure all ran smoothly. Next was the construction of the hills using wired paper. I formed rocks using molds and plaster and placed them on the hills. I painted the rocks and all the grounds and added ground foam - different kinds for different areas. For the train yard, I used black ballast. I then installed all the trees. Then I began to work on all the structures: the roundhouse, the sanding station, the town buildings. About 80% of the structures are kits which I meticulously painted and weathered myself. The rest of the structures I bought ready made but I still added painting and weathering. I also added lights to all structures. I installed all structures into layout and added lamposts in the town as well as added tower lights in the train yard areas. The town area I made a cut-out so that I can pop it out of the layout when needed. The factory in the valley is another pop out cut-out. This allows me to reach all parts of the layout. I added many details using people figures, cars, trucks, drums, crates, ladders, everything from phone booths to fire hydrants to benches to shoe shine stands, signs on buildings, train rails, even a welder. All electrical work was done by me. The icing on the cake was the realistic background,which I purchased from BackDrop Warehouse.The BackDrop of hills, blue sky and puffy white clouds that go perfectly with my layout of Forest Hills. For Questions...My e-mail is ericromi@yahoo.com
We used backdrops from BackDrop Warehouse       Member - BackDrop Warehouse Customers

The backdrop may look washed out but this is due to lighting used for photography. Visually it is much darker. (note from BDWH)

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