The Atlantic and Southern Build, Part 1

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I came across two rural mail boxes. They are old Shelly mail boxes. I think I've had these for about the past 50+ years and now have a spot for them.



The next area of scenery I'm tackling is the throat of the West Yard.

In this photo the large Sinners Mill fits up against the wall to the right.



I marked off where the Mill fits and painted the white glue on the plywood and then did the first layer of ground cover. The ground cover is Woodland Scenics fine turf. I used either the brown of light green. Once the matte medium is applied and dry the ground cover dries darker.



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When this dried, I applied a liberal dose of matte medium.



While the matte medium is still wet I add various textures of scenic materials. Fast forward and here is where I am at this point.







More weeds and small bushes need to be added as well.

More in a few.

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This morning Jim and his lovely wife, Claire, came by to drop off two tons of Floquil concrete. Jim also brought one ton of Floquil D&H Gray.

Thanks very much Jimmillho.



Let me back up here and say that I scratch built a small structure. Call it a crossing shanty, shed or whatever. Almost at all crossings, Mr. Sellios has one of these small structures. So, I'm a copy cat here.

I drew it out, cut it out and braced it as well as adding the corner trim.



I taped off the bottom boards and painted the top with thinned Floquil Reefer White. When dry, I removed the tape and painted the bottom four boards with Floquil Reading Green.





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And here is where it will go.



More to follow and pictures tomorrow afternoon.

[coors2u]

Tom, this has been a real treat so far to watch your railroad come together. Thanks for sharing all this with us. Keep up the great work as well.

[jimmillho]

I saw the shed yesterday, and far be from me to ask "where is the Roof?"

Jim

[Polux]

Lovely shed Tom.
looking very good so far

[ACL1504]

Tom, this has been a real treat so far to watch your railroad come together. Thanks for sharing all this with us. Keep up the great work as well.

Dustin,

Thank you for the kind words of support, much appreciated. This has been fun and I'm happy to share.

Tom

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I saw the shed yesterday, and far be from me to ask "where is the Roof?"

Jim

Jim,

What, you mean to say someone stole my roof? I guess I'll just have to build one more.


Tom

[ACL1504]

Lovely shed Tom.
looking very good so far

Polux,

Thanks very much! Thanks for checking the thread.

Tom

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I decided to give myself one foot of real estate between structures. The area would be to the left of Sinners Mill.



I won't bore anyone with one tree planting at a time but here is what I added.





I see I'll need to add more A&I wast to the mill as it is to clean. I does have two coats of A&I on now but I'll add some dark pastel chalks also.



Continued in a few.

[BandOGuy]

I saw the shed yesterday, and far be from me to ask "where is the Roof?"
Jim

There's a slight back order for solar panels so the roof will have to wait. 

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Now, what structure to build for the space left of the trees?



I have three choices for a structure in that area. All of them are FOS background models.

Three background fillers.



Foley & Co. Lithographers and Buckeye Ribbon and Carbon Co.

I'll leave it open as to the one I chose. It will involved a kit bash for sure.

More in a few.

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I saw the shed yesterday, and far be from me to ask "where is the Roof?"
Jim

There's a slight back order for solar panels so the roof will have to wait. 

Chip,

Good to see you my friend. The roof is under consideration for the solar panel, well, maybe not but good idea. The time frame is way off though.


Tom

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Yep, I'm adding yet another dirt/sandy road. This one will be used to service Yard Office Two and the Signal Tower.



I covered the area with the DAP spackle.



When the spackle dried I painted the area with white glue and then added some Florida sand. Its a different color and consistency. I stole it from a local playground.





You can see the glue is drying and the road is starting to look like a sandy road.