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HILL VALLEY The Biggest Little Town in the Monkee Mountains Circa: early 1930's - 1950's The Monkee Mountains are located in Northwest Missouri |
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HILL VALLEYAll 3 photos are pretty much the same viewThe first photo is one I had taken of Hill Valley in it's beginning stage Other 2 photos show the same area as it looked in July 2003 What a difference a little scenery makes  1
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July 2003 An old country swimming hole was added Using a small paper plate as a base, it was covered with plaster cloth, painted earth brown, then diluted Elmers glue was brushed on, then covered with real dirt that had been ground into fine powder in a blender The water is made of Envirotex which has been colored with powdered real earth and Woodland Scenics green turf The Preiser figures and Jordan vehicle were also added to represent a swimming hole Photos #5 & 6 show ponds prior to installation onto layout  1
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JULY 2003 I am finally finishing the area behind & below the pond area Automobile tunnel walls were constructed from Northeastern wood sheeting Woodland Scenic plaster cloth finished out the 2 auto tunnels All dirt on my layout is real dirt which has been sifted The guard rails were made using 1/8" wood dowels and 10" scale wood strips The dowels were painted white with red tops The track on far right side of the tunnel leads to Squaw Creek area The track splits into a dual lane and travels beneath the lumber company exiting just before crossing Squaw Creek The Squaw Creek section shows this track exiting the mountain and crossing the creek over a Walthers Double Track Truss bridge  1
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This is my granddaughter, Kayla Marie Sandoval These photos were taken during her visits from Colorado She loved to give Grandpa Rick a helping hand At the time, she was small enough to get up on the table and plaster & paint where Grandpa Rick couldn't reach. She is shown busy working on Hill Valley and the future Devil's Backbone mountainside Kayla also loved to run the choo choo!  1
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MARCH 2004 It has now been several years since the above photos were taken. The 3 photos below show Kayla Marie now at age 12 helping Grandpa scenic the Squaw Creek area. Kayla has gotten taller and Grandpa has gotten grayer  1
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MARCH 2004 BLACK SNAKE CREEK IN BLACK SNAKE CANYON Black Snake Creek Canyon lies between Possum Hollow and Hill Valley. The creek was made using Envirotex. The canyon walls and creek bed were formed using Woodland Scenics Plaster Cloth, followed 2 coats of thinned plaster painted on All plaster was painted with earth colored latex paint, then real dirt, grasses, turf, weeds, etc were all then glued in place. The Envirotex was then poured in at one end, allowing it to flow to the far end which is about 8 feet away. After several batches were poured in, the Envirotex finally reached the falls beneath the twin bridges and created the end reservoir where fishermen fish The creek is a dirty, murky creek that swimmers enjoy occassionally. A small gold vein can be found at the north end where Prospector Sam is panning All bridges are scratch built of scale Northeastern or Kappler scale wood with the exception of the automobile bridge which is kit bashed plastic IHC train bridge, Rix concrete railings with scale wood boarding on the top side. Most of the wood bridges are superdetailed with Grandt Line nuts & bolts.  1
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This section shows various bridges and roads that access Hill Valley The 3 span HOn3 Pratt Truss bridge that approach the area was scratch built using Central Valley girder sets The HOn3 narrow gauge railroad services the local coal mine, which is a Campbell wood kit The coal loader was scratch built by looking at photos of a Fine Scale Miniatures kit The Pratt Truss bridges lead to Sugar Town which is in the planning stage  1
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NEW ADDITION: Fine Scale Miniature's George Bailey's Produce kit The other structures in the area I built from scratch using scale wood & clapboard The red one was inspired by a FSM structure that I saw in George's book I tried 3 different colors and the washed out red suited it best  1
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DEVILS BACKBONE MOUNTAIN RANGE Devil's Backbone Mountain Range lies just west of Hill Valley It is 12 foot long mountain stretch that lies between Hill Valley and Sugar Town A vehicle tunnel located at Sugar Town can be seen in the last photo Sugar Town is still in the construction stage The HOn3 2-8-0 locomotive coming out of the tunnel is a Roundhouse kit  1
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Below is my scratch built Devils's Backbone Freight Depot I had purchased a Fine Scale Miniatures kit on Ebay and numerous pieces were missing, so I scratch built my own using HO scale wood  1
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HILL VALLEY MAIN STREET This is Hill Valley's Main Street Hill Valley is a poor Midwest town that still copes with dirt streets The saw mill, hotel, 2 downtown stores and the house are plastic kits The Tinsmith building is a copy of a Fine Scale Miniatures kit I made molds and casted the walls out of plaster paris All of the other structures are scratch built from either wood or plaster The cute trailer house is a resin kit that I purchased  1
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HILL VALLEY 2ND STREET This is 2nd Street - On your way out of Hill Valley We have all the wildlife most communities have: hobos, skunks, pigeons, red birds, lioness. rats and dogs which are all viewable in the photos below However, not viewable are my bears, chickens and deer The big power plant just outside of town is a Walthers Northern Light and Power plastic structure The Walthers Substation base was cut in half due to a limited space available  1
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RAY'S TEXACO GAS STATION In the 1950's, my Uncle Raymond had as gas station and my father did also I just had to build an old gas station I scratch built this structure using scale lumber I got some ideas from looking at photos in George Sellios' Franklin & South Manchester book  1
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