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Looks great Don! Nice to see that Big Blue equipment too!
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Whoa!
Don, that's looking great! Nice job, there, Bubba!
I love the way the water swirls coming off the bridge pilings!
It's looking
SUPER!
Is deer season still open up there?
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Thanks guys, although the project is done, I still have much to do on the layout, and that includes everything there that you see as brown dirt on both sides of the transition. I plan on some sort of structures there, I just want to get all the trackwork done before I take that on.
The water is two-part epoxy that I dyed a blue-green. The base underneath was painted progressively darker as it got into the deeper areas. The swirls were a result of smoothing out the final coat of epoxy as it dried.
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Don, what kind of dye did you use in the epoxy? And was it mixed into the epoxy or just put on the top?
I like the swirls, and also like the advertisement for the forum!
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Gary S Wrote:Don, what kind of dye did you use in the epoxy? And was it mixed into the epoxy or just put on the top?
I like the swirls, and also like the advertisement for the forum!
The dye I used was some stuff I bought a long time ago at a craft store for mixing in with casting resin. I mixed it in with the epoxy and used long setting stuff to give me time to get it mixed and leveled. I had two quarts of casting resin that I also bough a few years ago, but didn't realize that it has a finite shelf life, even in a sealed can. It turns out that there was enough material in the two-tube epoxy pak to do the job. The slow drying stuff ( 1 hour) stayed a bit tacky on the surface though, so I finished it off with a layer of fast-drying (5 min) stuff, which is probably why the swirls are as prominent as they are.
The car and loco I did for our first anniversary. Just wait though for what we have planned for this year's celebration.
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Nice work Don..
Is that the official Big Blue inspection train?
My other car is a locomotive, ARHS restoration crew
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Ya did good Don! Nice work!