11-29-2009, 05:44 PM
Just a short update to keep this thread alive and to show that I was not totally idle 
. After I ballasted the track on the left side extension, I built the first background structure for this side of the layout. Again it is a simple shoebox design and was very easy to to. That is why I only show the picture of the finished (but yet unpainted) structure and not how I built it. The structure is about 2' long and covers about half of the back of the extension.
![[Image: m94.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/m94.jpg)
![[Image: m95.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/m95.jpg)
Today I assembled these two 40' trailers from an A-Line kit. I need them for another scene I am planning. These 40 ft. trailers are too old for the era I am modeling to be still in service, but they will look great on a lot with cracked and overgrown tarmac, left there to rot and fall into pieces. I don’t know if Roadway ever had trailers that looked like these, but I had the decals at hand and what can I say ... I really don’t care if they are prototypical or not
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![[Image: m93.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/m93.jpg)
![[Image: m96.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/m96.jpg)
I still need to build a background structure for the other half of the extension on the left side of my layout. Then I can start to put it all together.
. After I ballasted the track on the left side extension, I built the first background structure for this side of the layout. Again it is a simple shoebox design and was very easy to to. That is why I only show the picture of the finished (but yet unpainted) structure and not how I built it. The structure is about 2' long and covers about half of the back of the extension.Today I assembled these two 40' trailers from an A-Line kit. I need them for another scene I am planning. These 40 ft. trailers are too old for the era I am modeling to be still in service, but they will look great on a lot with cracked and overgrown tarmac, left there to rot and fall into pieces. I don’t know if Roadway ever had trailers that looked like these, but I had the decals at hand and what can I say ... I really don’t care if they are prototypical or not
.I still need to build a background structure for the other half of the extension on the left side of my layout. Then I can start to put it all together.
Kurt