Sandy Lake & Northern misc builds, etc.

[deemery]

I'll put the scenery photos here, since they cover more than just the farm area.  

So first I covered the plaster cloth with Sculptamold thinned by paint, so it's not stark white.  They I glued the Noch grass mat over the farm pasture area, but not over that sliver of land between the tracks.  I thinned out the grass mat, spraying with water to soften the glue, then scraping away the grass in spots, as well as along the road at the side of the barn.  Then I applied static grass, a mixture of green and beige colors and lengths.  I glued in some tufts, too.  

On the hill, I applied static grass over the painted Sculptamold, then added tufts and shrubberies.  I'll probably add a few trees here, but right now I'm not quite happy with this.  I think it needs some more vertical shrubs (think small trees).  

But the farm bridge over the tracks looks good.

dave

[Rick]

Dave, that looks very good.

[deemery]

What I noticed when driving to VT looking at roadside cuts, is right at the top of the cliff there's a lot of tall skinny weeds/shrubs.  And those tend to be more brown than green.  I'm not sure anyone makes a particularly good product for that.  There were also a fair number of short (4'-6') pine trees interspersed with the tall weeds.  So that's what I'm thinking about today.

dave

[friscomike]

Howdy Dave, looking good!  Have fun, mike

[Michael Hohn]

Dave,

Your scenery is coming along well. 

Mike

[ACL1504]

Dave,

The added scenery really looks good. The scene is coming together nicely.

Tom

[deemery]

Well, sometimes things don't work out....  Today's plan was to make trees.  Yesterday I spray-painted the armatures (not apertures ).  Today I dug out polyfiber, sticky glue, and Scenic Express Superleafs.  I coated the tips of the armatures with the solvent glue (Beacon 3 in 1.  My several year old open bottle was no good, so I opened a new bottle.)  Then I stretched the polyfoam over the armatures, and that looked good. 

So I went to the garage, dug out my Loctite Spray Adhesive Professional 300.  I warmed that up in a yoghurt container of hot water, shook well (at least I thought I shook it enough), and sprayed an armature.  What came out was not a nice thin spray of adhesive, but rather something that looked like "Instant Spider Web" from Halloween.  I did sprinkle the SuperLeaf over that (I was committed at that point), but the result looks lousy. 


Since I also need that spray glue for the DACS pine tree approach, I'm stuck.  I'll order different glue (3M 77), arriving Tuesday, and try again...

In the meantime, I have a couple extra cans of Loctite 300, if anyone wants them...

dave

[jbvb]

I used a new can of 3M Super 77 for laminating paper, styrene etc. to acrylic when building my Hytron Warehouse structure. I remember the spray as fairly broad and the solvent flashing off quite quickly. By the time I put the can down the sprayed area's texture was kind of like I'd brushed on thinned Goo.