The Atlantic and Southern Build Thread Continued, Part 3

[ACL1504]

Tom;

Great seeing you the other day and love the tread, glad to see another section underway.

Jim D

Jim,

I also enjoyed our visit. By the way, are you missing a box of small WS structures? If so, I still have them.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Great to see some layout progress Tom.  I know you've been busy with lot's of different things.  Sure wish I could get down there for a visit but I just can't risk it while my wife's working in an elementary school (aka petri dish).  The stories I hear make me shudder.  Might be able to slip one in at the end of her X-Mas break when I know she hasn't been at work for a couple of weeks.

Bob,

Nice to be back on the layout. Its been much to long. The weekend after Christmas sounds good to me.

Tom

[Jerry]

Nice looking level!! 


Glad to see that work continues on this beautiful layout!!


Jerry

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking good, Tom.

Looks like a good system.

Cheers, Mark.

[ACL1504]

Nice looking level!! 


Glad to see that work continues on this beautiful layout!!


Jerry

Jerry,

Thanks very much. This past month has really kicked my butt. I'm back now a little at a time and will be posting a short update later this afternoon.

Tom 

[ACL1504]

Looking good, Tom.

Looks like a good system.

Cheers, Mark.

Cheers Mark,

So far this system has worked very well. I'm very pleased with how it works and turned out. Thank you for stopping by.

Tom   

[ACL1504]

This morning I was feeling much better and decided to start the painting of the river bottom. This is the first of two coats. The second coat will blend the colors better. This just gives me an idea of how it will look and if necessary the changes will be made on the second coat.

Note: The plywood pattern won't show when the water is added.

These are the water based colors I chose for the river. I used these same Golden paints in the Suwannee River Lagoon area but the color blending is much different.



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[ACL1504]

In the next couple of photos you can see the paint is still wet. Later you can see how it looks once dry.





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[ReadingBob]

Woo-Hoo!!!!  He's back! 

So glad you're feeling well enough to start enjoying yourself again! 

[Keep It Rusty]

Great colors here, Tom.

Will you be adding clear resin on top? Maybe Mod Podge?

[S&S RR]

Great to see you back Tom!  The water colors are excellent.

[ACL1504]

Woo-Hoo!!!!  He's back! 

So glad you're feeling well enough to start enjoying yourself again!

Butty Bob,

Thank you very much, I can't tell you how great it feels to be back on the layout after the Covid-19 crap.  I'm not physically 100% yet but my enthusiasm is 100%.

Butty Tom 

[ACL1504]

Great colors here, Tom.

Will you be adding clear resin on top? Maybe Mod Podge?

Craig,

Thank you. I won't be adding the usual clear resin but I will be using the Magic Water by Unreal Details.

https://www.unrealdetails.com/product-info

This is a two part resin and the same stuff I used on the Suwannee River Lagoon area. It takes about 5 days to completely dry. It does dry clear and never yellows like the other products.

Once it dries, I'll add waves by using the Mod Podge.

Here are two photos, including the dust, of the lagoon area and the deeper channel area. I have about 1/4" of the Magic Water coated with Mod Pofge.