Reinhard - I saw something on TrainOrders.com yesterday that may be of interest for your roadways - a private road/rail crossing sign

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They are available as decals

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The west end of the scenery part got a defines end with a modern Rix double overpass. I keep the bridge removable only the base of the pillars are glued to the ground. Gator Glue looks awful but sticks like hell.



The overpass in place permits the planning for the foreground lot left to the overpass. The Cornerstone Grocery Distribution Center is a low structure and might be a good base for a kit bashing project in the very foreground.

shortliner Wrote:Reinhard - I saw something on TrainOrders.com yesterday that may be of interest for your roadways - a private road/rail crossing sign

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They are available as decals

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Thanks for the pointer. That triggers a related question.
The photo shows the traffic sign mounted on a white painted wooden pole. This is what I found most often on my last US trip http://pensieve.typepad.com/pensieve/ima...n_pole.jpg
What kind of traffic sign poles have been used 1980 in urban industrial areas in the mid west?

The last spare walls have been used to build an abandoned building at the very right end closing the gap between the first build industry in the corner and the unfinished highway overpass. The building will be not glued in place as it blocks a location I need to grab the removable section in front of the door.



I got some recommendations to have a backdrop at this side of the layout. I did never follow that recommendations because I did not want to block the window of the door but a string of four story buildings might be a nice compromise.

ps. Yes, I did intensive play with watercolors again

That building is a real 'eyesore, Reinhard

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That looks great, it's a perfect fit.

It is a perfect day to start the probable last larger structure. Cornerstone's Grocery Distributor is used as a base for my kit bash. It sits in the very foreground at the famous "banana building" spot and has only one story to keep the view blocking tolerable.




Some hours later are the basics done and it's bedtime

The building crosses the boarder of the removable segment and must be removable. It reside within a frame of 1,5mm / 0.06" blue foam representing the paved yard to prevent ugly "hovering" over not perfect level ground. Only one barely visible rear wall will "touch" the ground cover more or less perfect.

WOW! Doesn't the painted version look different? Very nice job, Reinhard

That's it so far. May be some ghost sign later on and the ground cover together with all the ground cover on the layout.
Cornerstone designed a light and friendly grocery / fruit distributor in sunny California (http://www.walthers.com/prodimage/0933/0...003760.gif). It became a run down wholesale in an old warehouse district in the cold and rainy Midwest or Northeast

Could not resist. I love to do ghost signs with watercolor and dry transfer letters

The west end is complete and got the first ground cover today.



The sidewalks got structures, some traffic sign set and the pavement got marks and lightly washed with light brown powder and water.


All main parts are done and the thousands of details will have to wait until we are back from the little (and some big) fish in the Red Sea in July. The flight to Marsa Alam, Egypt is scheduled for Sunday 6:15 am. I wonder if a night dress would be approbate ...... :o

The small yard office building kit has been almost forgotten. It was easy to assemble, got some small modifications to look less fancy and a cosmetic downgrade to match the brick neighborhood.
It stands in a row with the "banana building" adjacent to the former REA building forming a low brick canyon in the front of the layout for the yard entry.



ps. The ground cover worked very well yesterday. The faces of the watercolor weathered building got a protective dull coat spray and the lowest 1/10" got a thin oil film. The weathering was not attached by the water spray of the ground cover and the building could be simply taken off the layout this morning due to the oil film. The white glue of the ground cover did not stick at all.

An old Stewart U25B kit was offered at the German ebay by an Italien dealer. He delivered within 48 hours at my doorstep!
It is an old kit but with the drive better than the very old ones with an Athearn RTR motor. This one is running as smooth as an Atlas drive. I read somewhere it might be an Kato motor. May be but it is a very old one I have never seen at a Kato engine. Some painting and a layer of dull coat for the finish and a new PCB with my preferred Zimo decoder inside. The original yellow/orange LEDs had a "funny" position about an inch away from the front and rear locations of the lights at the shell. Two new LEDs are mounted in the shell.
A perfect model for those with graceful eyes to missing details but sensitive ears like me