After a prolonged hiatus, I decided to switch gears and modify my Miami layout to include primarily small intercoastal shipping companies that move freight to an from the outer islands including the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the Bahamas to name a few. I have been busy gearing up for the change and and at the same time been finally adding scenery to what I have already completed. I am still waiting for palm trees. The process seems to take forever. There is still much clutter to be added as well as adding grass to the area between the tracks

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Gee!!! Nice work!!

The layout is looking very good! Can you describe how you did the vines/greenery growing up the fence?

Great work

Larry,

Gorgeous work!
Do you have a track plan to share with us?

Mark

Larry

very great work

Thanks all for the nice comments.

Mark,

There is really no hard fast track plan. I know what I want the end river scene to look like, but everything in the middle is modified as I go. I have never had good luck with track plans because for me they are always fluid. Since I only work on my layout during the winter months, it gives me time to think where I want to go with it.

Gary,

The greenry is Heki 1550 and 1600 that Kurt used on his 58th Street layout. He has a nice shot of it on page 13 of his 58th Street posting.

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The greenery is simply stretched and attached at ground level and then just curled over the fence. Kurt attaches his to the fence with CA. I prefer not since the tulle is pretty delicate.

All the fencing is either soldered brass or piano wire and the gates are operational. I have moved away from using plastic as conduit and went to metal since most conduit is grey or metallic in color and takes much of the painting out of the construction step.

Larry,
Another nice modern era ISL! Excellent work!

This is really VERY, VERY nice indeed - Looking forward to seeing the shipping area too - FYI Scalescenes.com does a small coastal vessel that can be stretched, shrunk or resized <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.scalescenes.com/products/T030-Cargo-Ship">http://www.scalescenes.com/products/T030-Cargo-Ship</a><!-- m --> You will probably need to re-badge the funnel. I think that John is working on a container vessel too - he already does sheets of containers

In this photo---

It took me a bit of time to find the clue that this was a model scene.......there's no wires on the power pole!
THAT, is some of the best scenery, and scene detail work I've seen in a long time !!!
I really like the way you did the grass, and weeds along the bottom of the fence, and, the photo itself. Excellent "point of view", and lighting !
I think the "bar", has now been raised to "orbital" :o

Sumpter 250, Shortliner, Len and Tyson,

Thank you all for the nice feedback. Kurt (CNW1961) and Lance Mindheim are my two major resources that I draw inspiration and I find myself going to Kurts NW 58th Street post and Lance's website again and again. Lance has graciously sent me a jpg file of his Antillean 45' stack containers. This will allow me to print out side, end and top views of antillean containers and fix them to rectangular plastic cubes thus freeing up the few containers I have.

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My palm trees came today from Harts of South. They look nice but need to be put together. When considering the cost from Harts along with the six week it took to receive them and the construction time to put them together, I will probably go to Scenery Express for any additional Palms.

My next major effort will be cast several warehouse section in hydrocal, hopefully with the same success that Kurt achieved on his layout. In the meantime, I just keep trucking along on getting ground cover and both ends of my current long shelf completed.

Larry

You have captured the look and feel of a small industrial park very well.

fast car Wrote:The greenry is Heki 1550 and 1600 that Kurt used on his 58th Street layout. He has a nice shot of it on page 13 of his 58th Street posting.

Appreciate that. The fence is really looking great. Another question... what about the barbed wire running along the tops of the fences... how did you do that?

Gary S Wrote:

fast car Wrote:The greenry is Heki 1550 and 1600 that Kurt used on his 58th Street layout. He has a nice shot of it on page 13 of his 58th Street posting.

Appreciate that. The fence is really looking great. Another question... what about the barbed wire running along the tops of the fences... how did you do that?

Gary,

That is .012 brass soldered to the carrier on the fence. I used three separate strands starting closest to the main post and then moving out to the end. The main fence posts are brass tube from Albion Alloys that I purchased through Sprue Brothers and are set between nine and ten scale feet. I constructed a template and then had a several copies printed off at the local copy shop. I usually ruin one everytime I make a large fence section. Once again, I believe the idea originated with with Kurt.

I can get you the part if you like when I get home. K&S Metals do not have tube with a small enough I.D. to make it look scale appropriate. Albion Alloys is made in the UK.

Larry

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