The final part of my engine service facility was the ash pit. I combined elements from the drawing above with the ash pit at Chama. The pit is made from MDF because I had some laying around in my shop. The track support is made with styrene. Weathering is with Bragdon powders. I plan to add an ash pile beneath the tracks with about five LEDs hidden under that. The LEDs will be controlled by an Arduino using an inaudible sound track to make the LEDs flicker randomly simulating hot ash being dumped from the engine above.
Ash Pit
The final part of my engine service facility was the ash pit. I combined elements from the drawing above with the ash pit at Chama. The pit is made from MDF because I had some laying around in my shop. The track support is made with styrene. Weathering is with Bragdon powders. I plan to add an ash pile beneath the tracks with about five LEDs hidden under that. The LEDs will be controlled by an Arduino using an inaudible sound track to make the LEDs flicker randomly simulating hot ash being dumped from the engine above.
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