The Atlantic and Southern Build, Part 1

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I've been very busy making Florida pine trees from the SE super trees. I'll show the process when finished.

The scenery in the rural area continues. While the dirt/sand road was drying, I moved back to the photo backdrop and the shrubs and fillers in front of it.

I applied a line of white glue along the back portion of the scenery.



I then gathered all the broken trees and branches and mixed them in a large tub.



More in a few.

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I grabbed some of the old broken scenery and pushed it into the line of white glue.



I put the tub on the layout for easy access for the shrubs and broken branches.




More in a few.

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Here is how it looked after all the shrubs and underbrush were added.





More ground cover materials, weeds, bushes, etc. will be added to this area as I plant the trees.

More in a few.

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I temporarily planted a few trees to get an idea of the additional ground cover look I'm after.

The pink foam work out great for just pushing the tree trunks in to the ground/foam.

The two pine trees are the two I made two years ago. My how time does fly!

[PRR Modeler]

Beautiful modeling Tom. I think that was a smart use of the broken parts.

[MAP]

Looking really good Tom.  It's really enjoyable watching the progress you're making, and seeing how you actually do it is fantastic. Thanks for all of the photos.

[GPdemayo]

Looking good Tom.....you and Bill play nice today. 

[donatode]

Tom.....is there ANYTHING you CAN'T do....

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Beautiful modeling Tom. I think that was a smart use of the broken parts.

Curt,

Thanks, much appreciated. I don't throw any scenery material away, especially any broken super trees that have foliage added.

Tom

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Looking really good Tom.  It's really enjoyable watching the progress you're making, and seeing how you actually do it is fantastic. Thanks for all of the photos.

Mark,

I'm very pleased you are enjoying the thread. The photos do take time but it is a build thread so I add plenty of photos to go with the explanations. Time consuming but enjoyable.

Tom

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Looking good Tom.....you and Bill play nice today. 

Greg,

I had to cancel the Judge today due to the plummer coming.

By the way, I found a picture of you running the trains.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom.....is there ANYTHING you CAN'T do....

Donato,

Thank you my friend for the compliment. Yes, there are many things I can't do. The big one is that I can't get Greg to run the trains at a safe speed.

Tom

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The Atlantic and Southern Railroad is donating some WWII surplus to the Defense Department should we find our nation at war with North Korea.

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[tct855]

ACL 1504,
                   I like the surplus tank models.  Curious are they Sherman M4's not sure if they're A1's though?  Thanx Thom...

[GPdemayo]

Looking good Tom.....you and Bill play nice today. 

Greg,

I had to cancel the Judge today due to the plummer coming.

By the way, I found a picture of you running the trains.

Tom

Where did you find that.....Dad told me that he had destroyed the original and all the copies.