Need ideas for a 1/35 Karl Gerat base

I've actually been working on a fairly large diorama, the centerpiece of which will be the Karl Gerat with the full railway carriers. I'm building mine as a two-tier level diorama, where the Karl is sitting below a train station and some other civilian structures, provinding plenty of interesting things for the civies to look at. What I ended up doing (or will end up that is) for the tracks, I assembled the kit ones, and then removed the plastic 'border', and will then build up the embankment using styrofoam sheets, and just cover it with regular rock and pebbles to demonstrate the ballast used on the track. I'll see if I can post some pictures after the weekend.

By all means, take pictures. I can't wait to see that, that's gonna look cool. There was a nice two tier dio in extreme modelling(issue 22, i think), and that was one of the few ones that were really good. Let's see it !!!!!!!

The easiest way to model a railroad roadbed would be to use styrofoam and cut it to shape with the bevels in place.. Then lay your ties, then the rails, then lay down the ballast...

Your scale is going to be "l-Scale", which is approx. 1/32nd, but that's close enough for government work.. Here's a rough sketch of the cross-section..

I'm working a diorama right now that has RR tracks in this scale, so any questions about dimensions & materials, feel free to ask...

Oh yeah.. Kitty litter works for ballast, but not in this scale.. You'll likely want to use mine tallus instead..

 

Thank you Hans, I was'nt sure which railroad scale would work. If you have any WIP pics, feel free to pm them to me. Thanks. I also have Trump's Panzerjagerwagen, vol 2 that came with the same cheesy tracks. May have to employ this on that one first, and use it as my trial run. Sprue brothers has some aftermarket tracks, it just does'nt say the dimensions.

be aware that the guage of a track is the distance between the inside edges of the rail.european railroads were notorious in that several different guages were in use.you may be able to find out more about this using a google search.now concerning that base,were the karl gerats in use at sevastopol,now that would be cool.

be aware that the gauge of a track is the distance between the inside edges of the rail.

The drawing I did is the standard guage for US and Western European railroad tracks.  Russia's gauge was the wide one, but I don' remeber offhand what the measurement was... In order to use them, the Germans had to switch out the trucks on the cars at the border...  Also, Russian rail systems didn't stagger their rail joints like the rest of the world.. They were directly opposite each other, so instead of the "clickety-clack" sound you're used to, Ivan's was more THUD-THUD....THUD-THUD....THUD-THUD..