The Atlantic and Southern Build, Part 1

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I used a product by Great Planes. It is a model striping tape and comes in various widths. I used the 1/16" (1.6MM) and striped the road way.

I used white for the road edges and yellow for the center line.



More in a few.

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ACL light mountain 4-8-2, #1401 pulling a local freight through the pine forest.

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[PRR Modeler]

Very cool Tom. I can't wait to see the finished scene. Did you by chance do a posting on the FOS scale yard office #2? I looked in the forum kit building threads and your closed thread without success. I have it on order and figured to read up on it while waiting.p

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Very cool Tom. I can't wait to see the finished scene. Did you by chance do a posting on the FOS scale yard office #2? I looked in the forum kit building threads and your closed thread without success. I have it on order and figured to read up on it while waiting.p

Curt,

Thank you, much appreciated.

Reading Bob built the FOS Yard Office #2 and I don't think he did a thread, if so, I didn't find it either.

I don't have any closed threads so if you found one let me know what it is.

Tom

[sdrees]

Tom,

Your video of your new work is very nice.  I like how you have varied the trees from dead ones, to live ones, to burnt ones etc.. It makes the scene look like the work of mother nature.

[Zephyrus52246]

The trees came out nicely.  Your road striping reminds me I need to do that before adding the ground cover around it.  Thanks! 


Jeff

[tct855]

Tom,
         I just absolutely love the latest, hell all the videos.  I talked to George again today.  He mentioned again if I've been following your thread here.  So..... you know now he's been following it in silence too. ha.

Don't worry, he tells me your work is crap!  ha. Sorry forgive me.  He loves the work you're doing and the videos.  Which brings me to my post here.  While watching this latest video I really wanted to watch critic your work on the fabulous engines (sorry trade habit).

I noticed I was getting anxious because I couldn't clearly see the engine running through all the damn trees! ha. doink!  Then it hit me! What's blocking my view is all the trees you've been making!  Doink, doink!  All those wonderful trees in the way, is just like the real thing!

Don't change a thing!  I love it, mission accomplished sir!  Keep planting more trees-Johnny Appleseed.  Thanx Thom... KP out!

[S&S RR]

Hi Tom


I stopped by and got caught up on you build thread, tonight.  The layout is really looking good. I didn't realize all those brush fires we have been hearing about in Florida affected your layout. I'm sure glad the fireman were able to get it out before it caused to much damage. Great work my friend!

[Janbouli]

Top notch Tom , you're working fast while keeping quality of work 200%. Love the striping , but it's got me confused because I thought yellow was a modern era thing. It's probably been discussed here somewhere , but when was it changed to yellow striping in the center from white?

[rpdylan]

I think I remember the topic of striping coming up in the past,,,, didn't the yellow stripe start in the 1960s and become standard in the 1970s? I could be wrong, but I seem to remember being told that in the 1950s, the road striping was white

[MAP]

Your scenes are really coming together nicely Tom.  Love the burned tree scene!  Reminds me of when I used to drive from Tampa to Palm Bay to visit my parents.  95 had lots of brush fires and the smoke was so dense at times they closed sections of it!  Your street scenes are great!  I like the use of the toothpicks for fence posts.

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Tom,

Your video of your new work is very nice.  I like how you have varied the trees from dead ones, to live ones, to burnt ones etc.. It makes the scene look like the work of mother nature.

Steve,

Thank you very much. I was a lot of fun in making the different trees. Small area burned spaces like this one are very common in Florida.

Tom