The Atlantic and Southern Build Thread Continued, Part 4

[GPdemayo]

"Be Prepared".....I seem to remember that motto from somewhere in the distant past of my childhood. 

[deemery]

"Be Prepared".....I seem to remember that motto from somewhere in the distant past of my childhood. 

From this Tom Lehrer classic, maybe?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkrheaWuShU

dave

[ACL1504]

Greg,

Yea, I remember that as well. I started Boy Scouts but never finished. My dad was the fist Eagle Scout in Central Florida. I think he got the Eagle Badge in the mid to late 30's.

Me, I turned out to be a GDI!

Tom 

[ACL1504]

"Be Prepared".....I seem to remember that motto from somewhere in the distant past of my childhood. 

From this Tom Lehrer classic, maybe?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkrheaWuShU

dave

Dave,

Exactly that!

Tom 

[ACL1504]

I started to add scenery to the layout between the rear of the Downtown Tahope and the tracks.





Continued-

[ACL1504]

The Judge brought some different palm trees over several months ago. I think these are some trees his lovely  wife found on the net.  I looked at the top of the trees under the palm fronds. I thought there has to be a way to make these look better. After a few days, I came up with an idea.

I gently bent the fronds back as shown.



Continued -

[ACL1504]

I painted the nuts, or whatever those things are, with white glue as shown.



I used me oak leave blend to cover the white glue.



Back in a few. Need a Diet Pepsi.

[ACL1504]

I'm very pleased with the results.



I planted a few on the layout. Here is one.



More in a few.

[ACL1504]

I finished the scenery between the track and layout edge.



More in a few.

[ACL1504]

I'm still behind on the layout thread updates but here is a shot of coming posts.

Summit center section is under construction.



Yes, of course!



Done for today.

[PRR Modeler]

Tom- WOW,  excellent scenery work. I can't wait to see it in person.

[S&S RR]

Tom


You are make great progress, it looks great.  Good to see the new section is starting out level.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Looking great, Tom.

Abracadabra and those palm trees look great!

Your making good progress - almost back to your pre COVID19 speed?  Those threaded rods would sure making leveling the upper deck easy.

Cheers, Mark.

[Jerry]

Tom some nice scenery and those palm trees right on!


Great work all around as usual.


Jerry

[Judge]

Tom - Glad you were able to salvage those palm trees.  The progress at Summit is welcome.  It won't be long before passenger trains are backing into the Station.