I didn't know exactly where to put this, but since my little Disneyland is at heart a toy train layout, I figured this place was as good as any. :)
So. Why Disneyland? It all started way back in 1979 when I first saw Walt Disney World. I was so taken with the place, that upon returning home I almost immediately tried to build my own version on a ping-pong table in the basement. Over the years it evolved. It even got it's own name "The United World Kingdom" before it all came down. This is what it looked like:
That was about 1988. Flash forward to 2006 when I discovered the world of downloadable paper model kits and most importantly Robert Nava's Disney Experience. In 2009 I built his Main Street Station kit and used it with my Christmas trains:
I can't say exactly why, but in June 2011 I decided to build as complete a Disneyland layout as possible and have it running by Thanksgiving Day. This is what it looked like that first year:
So how did it get there in 6 months? That's what I hope to describe with this thread. I also will show you the new stuff as it gets built.
We'll start with the Matterhorn.
It's just a big wedge of foamcore board when it all comes down to it. The skeleton was stuffed with crumpled newspapers over which I laid out about a mile of masking tape to give me a flexible shell:
Then I glued on brown kraft paper to create the paintable surface. Onto this I sprayed polyeurethane expanding foam to create rock outcroppings:
The "rocks" were then carved with kitchen knives, X-Acto knives, saw blades etc. until I had a reasonable shape. Gray latex acted as my base coat:
Thin washes of black, gray and white acrylics went on followed by spackling to create the snow drifts:
The last step may surprise you:
The icicles in the skyway "grottoes" and the waterfall is just hot glue while the water was just laminated cardboard painted blue.
The Matterhorn has evolved quite a bit. First came the bobsled:
A very rudimentary color scheme. I'll admit I wish I could have done better than Metasequoia's basic palate.
Last year the Monorail came through and the lagoon got rebuilt:
The new "water" is a sheet of thin card painted with acrylics. The Nautilus is of course the Disney Experience kit but to make a waterline model I only built the top half. It's also 1/4 the size the kit normally builds. When the sub and dock structure were completed, I made the water using a technique I've recently been experimenting with. It's just hot glue spread back and forth as fast as I could force it through the glue gun. :) The rocks around the lagoon are scraps of expanding foam that I carved, painted and ran washes over.
So that's the Matterhorn story. Next time I think we'll tiptoe through the tree house which is always a crowd-pleaser!
You aint' gonna believe what this thing's made of! :)
So. Why Disneyland? It all started way back in 1979 when I first saw Walt Disney World. I was so taken with the place, that upon returning home I almost immediately tried to build my own version on a ping-pong table in the basement. Over the years it evolved. It even got it's own name "The United World Kingdom" before it all came down. This is what it looked like:
That was about 1988. Flash forward to 2006 when I discovered the world of downloadable paper model kits and most importantly Robert Nava's Disney Experience. In 2009 I built his Main Street Station kit and used it with my Christmas trains:
I can't say exactly why, but in June 2011 I decided to build as complete a Disneyland layout as possible and have it running by Thanksgiving Day. This is what it looked like that first year:
So how did it get there in 6 months? That's what I hope to describe with this thread. I also will show you the new stuff as it gets built.
We'll start with the Matterhorn.
It's just a big wedge of foamcore board when it all comes down to it. The skeleton was stuffed with crumpled newspapers over which I laid out about a mile of masking tape to give me a flexible shell:
Then I glued on brown kraft paper to create the paintable surface. Onto this I sprayed polyeurethane expanding foam to create rock outcroppings:
The "rocks" were then carved with kitchen knives, X-Acto knives, saw blades etc. until I had a reasonable shape. Gray latex acted as my base coat:
Thin washes of black, gray and white acrylics went on followed by spackling to create the snow drifts:
The last step may surprise you:
The icicles in the skyway "grottoes" and the waterfall is just hot glue while the water was just laminated cardboard painted blue.
The Matterhorn has evolved quite a bit. First came the bobsled:
A very rudimentary color scheme. I'll admit I wish I could have done better than Metasequoia's basic palate.
Last year the Monorail came through and the lagoon got rebuilt:
The new "water" is a sheet of thin card painted with acrylics. The Nautilus is of course the Disney Experience kit but to make a waterline model I only built the top half. It's also 1/4 the size the kit normally builds. When the sub and dock structure were completed, I made the water using a technique I've recently been experimenting with. It's just hot glue spread back and forth as fast as I could force it through the glue gun. :) The rocks around the lagoon are scraps of expanding foam that I carved, painted and ran washes over.
So that's the Matterhorn story. Next time I think we'll tiptoe through the tree house which is always a crowd-pleaser!
You aint' gonna believe what this thing's made of! :)
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