The Atlantic and Southern Build, Part 1

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Tom,
          As usual, I'm gonna have to copy cat Frank again to cut down on all the typing of the same thoughts. ha.  Thanx Thom...

Thom,

Thank you sir, much appreciate you stopping by. I have more coming in the next few weeks.

Tom

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What can I add to what's been said, great scenes Tom.

Jan,

Your support is very much appreciated. I believe little scenes make the entire layout. Just ask Mr. Sellios.


Tom

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Atta boy Tom.....

Butty Greg,

Thank you very much my friend.

Tom

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OH Wow, an "atta boy" from Greg.  I find no way to top that!!!!

I also have a couple of unopened bottles of Floquil Concrete. (and mine are closer than  Reading Bob's)

Jim

Butty Jim,

Yes, Greg really came out of his shell for the last post. All posts are encouraging.

I'll buy the concrete if you want to sell. However, you may want to just give it away.


Tom

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Tom, I am SPEECHLESS!!! 

Donato,

Okay, I won't say anything either.    Well, thanks very much anyway.

Tom

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That is a very impressive little scene Tom.

Dustin,

Good to see you my friend. Thank you for the encouragement, very much appreciated. It has been fun.

Tom

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Tom ....Just love it !

Ken,

I just love that you "Just love it"! Thanks very much.

Tom

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Tom, that´s awesome...........    Fantastic work.

Regards,Chris

Hey Chris,

I appreciate your support and thanks for checking in on the thread.

Tom

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Very nicely done my friend. Great work!

John,

Thank you very much appreciated. I keep finding more to do and it seems I'll never get finished.

Tom

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Very nicely done my friend. Great work!

first go get a mirror...

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Donato volunteered to help me design my empire. The only drawback is, so far we've gotten everything bass ackwards. 

Chip,


That's okay, just build it in the mirror.


Tom

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This past Saturday, meaning four Saturdays ago, the Judge asked me to give him a refresher course in using Canopy Glue for window glass.



Tom

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I finally finished the two cracker Houses. I still need to add a window fan or two and some rockers on the porch. All those little details are in one of the boxes under the layout but I haven't found the correct box as yet.

Reading Bob gave me a bottle of Gallery Glass Simulated Liquid Leading. I used this to add the tar pitch around both chimneys.



I'm going to back up a little here and mention something I won't do again. For the roofing on the houses, I used very fine sandpaper to represent the rolled roofing. I cut the sandpaper into scale 3 foot widths.



I then spray painted them with Floquils UP Harbor Mist Gray.



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I couldn't find my two sided tape for applying the roofing pieces. Instead of being patient and getting more, I just used white glue to glue the sandpaper on the roof panels.

The glue curled the sandpaper and made it very difficult to apply. I won't do this trick EVER AGAIN. The two sided tape would have worked but the glue wasn't a great idea. I mean it's acceptable for the cracker houses but I don't like the result. By the way, the misaligned rolled roofing is by design.

Live and learn for the next build.



I did find a small dog for the front porch. I think it is a Campbell Figures dog.



Here are a few pictures of the finished houses.

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It's time to leave Eaton's Curve for a few weeks and move to another area.

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The next area I plan on completing is the area to the left of the double bridge.




Lots of work to be done in this area. I need to add a road across the tracks, add more guard rail between the track and highway, scenery and more scenery, ant the list goes on and on.





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