I would welcome all comments and suggestions.....Roger Malinowski... roger@stoneycreekdesigns.com

This is my On30 layout design as of Jan. 2012. The area at the bottom, will be an mining and oil drilling town. This area, as you can see in the pictures, does not connect with the lower level. My idea was, to have this small, old western style town with a few  small funky locos, Porters, Bachmann's small diesel, etc. One big change from my original plans is, I'm going with all Micro Engineering DCC ready turnouts and flex track. Most structures are either past kits or future ones. . To see a larger view of the plan, just click anywhere on the image above.

If you have visited here before, first thing you will notice is the rock work is all finished and some track is down. No ground cover or vegetation yet but at least all the rock work is done. If you remember the hard shell was fiberglass. The rock work was done with resin and expandable foam cast in silicon molds. Coloring via acrylics and airbrush. Quite unusual beasy to do. Will be doing demos ay Gary Kohler's show this March.

It's so easy a 5 yr. old can do it. She did a great job dry brushing the rocks for me

closer look at rock work

In the picture `at right, next to majestic Theatre is a mock up of the 2012 kit

My 5 granddaughters. The youngest, at left, is Payton (Mss P) She's pictured above helping out with the dry brushing.

Concept:
This is a point to point layout. Actually all I really want is a large diorama to put my models on. Running trains is secondary.  I want to build a layout that will be home to all the kits I've produced and plan on producing, as well as some scratch built stuff and  a few from other manufacturers. I also wanted to model something a bit different, so, I chose oil drilling. The area the town of Stoney Creek occupies is  42"' deep.

Room Finish.
Round corners with backdrops from "Backdrop Warehouse".

Control:
A NCE DCC "Power Pro" unit. Wireless DCC.

Track Work:
All track and turnouts are code 83 Micro Engineering. Super Product!. Beautifully detailed flex track and turnouts. Plus, the turnouts are DCC ready.

Bench work:
Traditional open grid BUT using metal studs rather than wood. This topped with plywood (cookie sheet) landings topped with Homasote.

Scenery:
Fiberglass hard shell with foam rock/scenery castings. .Primered black and airbrushed from dark to light.