The Atlantic and Southern Build, Part 1

[jerryrbeach]

Tom,
You have a wonderful eye for realistic scenery.  The pics of the Suwanee river basin are great.  I am in awe of the way you can transition your scenery from areas of short grass to bushes, brush and trees.  The way you blend these areas together to look so natural is truly an art.

[ReadingBob]

This is just like some of my favorite movies.  I enjoy watching it this as much the second time around as I did the first even though I know how it turns out.   

[ACL1504]

Fantastic detail Tom...

Stay cool and run steam.........

Bob,

Thanks very much.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Nice work Tom! The crossing came out nice with tjose boards. When do you plan on pouring "water"?

Bob,

Thank you, much appreciated. I was going to pour the water at the end of January. However, the prostate surgery set me back  seven weeks. Now, I don't think I'll do the pour until around June. I'm working on the rural scenery to the right of Delwin's.

The rural area is 13 feet long and will require two scratch built structures, lots of old oaks and pine trees. I'll have a few palms scattered around the area as well.

I want to get this rural area done as I'm creating much more layout "dust" so I want to wait on the water until all the new construction is finished.

Thanks for checking and following along.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom,
You have a wonderful eye for realistic scenery.  The pics of the Suwanee river basin are great.  I am in awe of the way you can transition your scenery from areas of short grass to bushes, brush and trees.  The way you blend these areas together to look so natural is truly an art.

Jerry,

Thank you for such a kind and generous compliment. I've had four layouts to practice on.


When I do a transition area, I just try to make it look natural and from what I remember as a boy growing up around the woods and rural areas.

Appreciate you following along.

Tom

Tom

[ACL1504]

This is just like some of my favorite movies.  I enjoy watching it this as much the second time around as I did the first even though I know how it turns out.   

Bob,

Thank you for the kind comment. I'm a little frustrated having to repost the pictures. If I didn't, the new continuation wouldn't make any sense.

I has been fun however, going back and seeing the progress.

Tom

[MAP]

I love seeing your progress pics (Deja Vue all over again).  You really have mastered the scenery technique.  It all looks so real....natural. 

[jimmillho]

The second time seeing this is just as good as the first time, but to see it in person is awesome.

Jim

[ACL1504]

I love seeing your progress pics (Deja Vue all over again).  You really have mastered the scenery technique.  It all looks so real....natural.

Mark,

Thank you for the scenery compliment, much appreciated. Glad you are still having fun the second go around.

I want to get the missing photos up so I can start adding to the thread. I already have close to 80 new photos to list/post.

Tom

[ACL1504]

The second time seeing this is just as good as the first time, but to see it in person is awesome.

Jim

Jim,

You are to kind, but then you are my friend.


Tom

[ACL1504]

I'm going to try to blitz some pictures so I can get to the new updated materials. I'll try to keep the narrative to a minimum. I don't mind relisting the photos, the narrative is another story though.

I decided to add channel markers to the river.




According to the Coast Guard, the markers are mainly red and green. There are other colors meaning other stuff but all I needed was the channel marker information.

The red is what you see on the right as you leave open waters. Coast Guard phrase is "Red, Right, Returning".

The green markers are for leaving inland waters to open waters.

The number on the markers indicate how many more markers you'll pass until open waters, (Green).

Red is the same leaving and the numbers indicate how many markers from open waterd, (Red)









More in a few.

[ACL1504]

I built FOS Bud's GAS and BAIT floating dock. I lit the structure so I needed to get the wires under the river.

I used a brass tube for this and drilled a hole in the bank. The tube is higher than the water level will be.



I measured where the dock posts would be and glued them in place.



The wires go into the tube and under the river bed.





More in a few.

[ACL1504]

More in a few.

[ACL1504]

I found some little pine trees made by JTT, a division of MRC. They aren't to bad looking and add to the different trees in the scenery.









Continued in a few. All this reposting of my photos is testing my patience. Diet Pepsi time.

[ACL1504]

JTT also makes cypress trees.





I decided to see if I could add some hanging moss. Here is what I used to make the moss.



The Q-tip was dipped in Hunterline A&I and set aside to dry.



The A&I gets lighter as it dries.




More in a few.