Modeling a Slot Canyon 

So good! I love the things I learn watching Dave work. It's been so helpful. The SculptaMold baggie trick alone is priceless.

The shadows of the train passing across the walls of the canyon below the bridge and interacting with the blue ambient light is honestly one of the coolest things i've seen on any layout

Now you did it, challange excepted in n-scale. I have a spot on my layout that needs a special type of canyon.

Always enjoy your videos, I think I just saw Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner ! 🚂🌵🌵

Great work and an interesting idea for building a gorge for the model railway layout Great work and an interesting idea for building a gorge for the model railway layout

Great job!

Best Art class I have seen. You Dave are an amazing artist. I enjoy all of your videos.

I was able to "Visually see" it also until you chuckled & repeated it. That proves that your videos are very engrossing. Thanks. I really enjoy following along.

Great video and techniques, glad YT recommended this video, subbed.

Thanks, it's so inspiring. I've been rebuilding damaged wood bridges I've had kicking around for years and same same with old structures. Along with that I've built 2 ore bins from coffee sticks and food sticks and a couple of structures too. I need to get to work tho on my track plan for my new studio. Hopefully that purchase goes thru by end of summer. Thanks again, Thailand Paul, Agent D&RG Ry owner of The 4 Ton Mine.

Great work as always!!!! Thanks

I’m really happy you ended keeping the blue light in the back of the canyon. Really adds something special.

Dave, Beautiful! Great addition.

Love watching you work Dave. Thanks

Dang it Dave. That looks right purty!

Wow, Incredible work.

Outstanding work Sir!

Great looking scene! Was Waiting for roadrunner and coyote to go running by

Beautiful.

Love this!!!

Amazing job, keep it coming

Another great episode. The result is very nice, well done.

OK! I have started building Garbethong Creek which is a slot canyon in an obscure corner of Central Australia. I said your stuff was inspirational. You've done it. Good 'ealth, John Warner, Oz.

That is a very great spectacular finish it looks amazing I always enjoy watching this model railroad grow

Love your layout and I've learned so much from your modeling videos

Terrific job again. A couple points. I have whined, carped, & complained incessantly about influencers battling smoke NOT TO REDUX their techniques or styles. But with your fearlessness to go back to basics shows how you can restart, not just for your long-term subscribers, but for newbees, to our art form. Congratulations. Second I love the way you installed a cyc infinity accent light. Great idea. Next you mentioned how you buy ground cover paints by the gallon. Unfortunately, if you have a customized hue. But buy a decent volume once a year, or two, the color matching can be off. This due to the age of your chips light fade. Or the base hues may be out of production. We'll my main paint store guys do a spectroscopy to match my original order. When I pickup my order they have a print out of the percentage of concentrations. With a swatch of the actual paint. That print out goes into a frosted plastic protector. Then into a binder for safe keeping. And future orders. Lastly, "Native American" ridge. I'd like to make a real prototype example. Before the pandemic I traveled Historic Rt. 66 on my way to my daughter's family in Mesa, AZ. Along the way I came across a road side Hopi site between Holbrook and Winslow. I'm sure there are hundreds of such cliff side dwellings. But here's a heads up for ya'. Again great job. Jim

In Northern Arizona, North of Lipton on the way to St. Michaels is a very unusual rock formation that forms part of the Bkack Creek Canyon as the creek flows down toward the Rio Puerco. The entire wall of the canyon curves from the top of the canyon down toward the earth. You can see all the strata make the grand turn from the hundreds of feet at the top all the way down. It is one of the most memorable geological sites I have ever seen.

Your model of the deck truss is very good with 2 exceptions: where are the iron or steel rods holding the top chords to the bottom chords and a wooden deck truss would be supported on the bottom chord.

This is some amazingly satisfying work. I'm liking the entire looks of your layout.mReally enjoyable. Great colors! One would expect you are really having fun!

Really well done. What a joy to enjoy.

Hello Dave, I am new too your channel, just sitting back on a Saturday night enjoying your videos. I am amazed at your work and your attention to detail with the landscaping on your layout, model kits and building structures. Great video capturing, lighting and editing too! Thank you for sharing your talent with us.

I've done something similar to yours, there's an easier way to do it. Instead of the extruded polystyrene, grab a basic foamboard or peel some foam core and make your layers with that. It takes more time in cutting, but a lot less in shaping since you, largely, only need the vertical work for shaping parts and is as solid when it's all together. When gluing sections together, I use 2 pairs of 123 blocks positioned to keep two corners straight.

I always looked for this type scenery when searching YT and never really found it. Until I came across your channel and recently subbed. Ever considered showing the fireworks and how you did? I looked for a bud and only found the vid of show. I’m sure there’s plenty out there but I’d like to see on your layout with your explanation.

6:42 It sounds like a mosquito trying to imitate a cat.

Any yucca????

I have a PDF from Google Earth I can send you of the rock formation I described below.