The Atlantic and Southern Build, Part 1

[PRR Modeler]

Great work so far Tom. I look forward to seeing your progress.

[jimmillho]

Must have been a Tourist in that switcher.......right foot on the gas, left foot on the brakes......stop, go, stop, go, repeat.

Jim

[ACL1504]

Great work so far Tom. I look forward to seeing your progress.

Curt,

Thank you, I look forward to getting it done.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Must have been a Tourist in that switcher.......right foot on the gas, left foot on the brakes......stop, go, stop, go, repeat.

Jim

Jim,

I think you are correct. It must have been a tourist. Otherwise, Greg is rubbing off on the Judge.

Tom

[ACL1504]

I started the scenery on the rural area of the layout. This area is about 4.5 feet in length. I painted white glue over the area and then covered the white glue with a 50/50 mix of Woodland Scenics Fine Turf. The mixture I used was Earth #T1342 and Burnt Grass # T1344.



I let the WS material soak into the glue for a few hours.

I then wet this area with matte medium. I then added several layers of scenic materials. I used both WS and SE scenery.



More in a few.

[ACL1504]

[ACL1504]

While that was drying, I moved to the dirt road. I previously marked off the road area. I painted white glue on the pink foam and then spread some sand for the road base.

This is a departure from my past dirt roads. I'm trying different mediums as I don't want the entire layout to be the same old dirt from Scenic Express.

I got this sand from a local playground. I sifted the sand to get out the large particles leaving me only the very fine sand. I baked the remaining sand in a cake pan in the oven at 250 degrees to kill any microscopic bugs or other stuff.

The sand was dumped on the white glue and then spread even over the top. I forgot to get a picture of the spreading.



I then added some white glue to the track crossing area and then added the sand.








Continued after a Diet Pepsi break.

[ACL1504]

I used an old Kadee truck to push the sand from the inside rails.



The entire dirt/sand road was saturated with matte medium.





More in a few.

[ACL1504]

After several hours of letting the matte medium dry, I used a punch point to compress the sand from the inside rails, meaning to clear a flange way for the wheels.





I'm going to add more sand, white sand, to the top of this road when the matte medium is thoroughly dry. This white sand will represent how the Florida rural areas look.

I'll have more tomorrow.

[PennsyJ1]

Really looking Tom you are all most done with your roads....... Oh I forgot about the other level. Sorry

[PRR Modeler]

Looking good Tom.

[ACL1504]

Really looking Tom you are all most done with your roads....... Oh I forgot about the other level. Sorry

Bill,

Thank you kind sir. I do appreciate your support on the thread. Yea more roads on the third level but probably won't be that many dirt ones.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Looking good Tom.

Curt,

As always, I appreciate you following along and commenting. Thank you.

Tom

[S&S RR]

Tom


The layout looks great - I finally got caught up on your progress.  You have sure done a lot of posting to get your thread back up-to-date.  Thank you for all the hard work and for sharing your layout with us.

[ACL1504]

Tom


The layout looks great - I finally got caught up on your progress.  You have sure done a lot of posting to get your thread back up-to-date.  Thank you for all the hard work and for sharing your layout with us.

John,

Thank you and yes, I've been very busy getting caught up on what was lost from the crash. I would've preferred to not have to do it but things happen.

Thanks John for following along.

Tom