Thanks buddy! I have actually seen those sight holes for aiming the signals, at the time I wasn't sure if that was what they were, but a friend confirmed shortly thereafter.
Haven't done much to the layout in a couple of weeks. I got a session ran in January, I got the signals installed afterwards, got the workbench cleared off and that's been about all. This past week has been extremely cold and my basement ain't the warmest place in the house, so I have kind of avoided it and stayed upstairs trying to get through tax season. However I have an order coming from Showcase Miniatures soon for an upcoming project. It's only a small side project, but I'm looking forward to it. For a while now, I've been thinking about getting some MOW vehicles on the layout to add to the Ruston depot scene and the engine facility in the yard and recently picked up a couple of the other MOW vehicles from Showcase while visiting Spring Creek Hobbies. I'm planning to kitbash a MOW truck that seemed to be a very common during my era. Showcase has quite a bit of bits and pieces in several builders packs and I think I can make this happen easily enough. Debbie has been real helpful when I contacted her about parts. The hard part will be to make some door decals for those trucks. No one makes any, but Fusion Decals offers custom decals, if I can get them made to their requirements.
An update on the Bog water. I did the final (2nd) pour 8 weeks ago on Jan 15. Since then I've worked on the depot, the crossing bucks, and installed the signals, all with in weeks of the bog. The last time I worked on the layout was Jan 21 as I was getting ready for the Op session on the 27th. In that time I hadn't paid much attention to the bog, other than a passing glance. Just before then I noticed that some areas of the bog was turning much lighter than I had wanted and figured that "It is what it will be" and I'd just live with it. Since then it's been awfully cold around here and one night in Feb it hit -19° and my basement gets cold in the winter time. So I haven't been down there very much since. Today it hit 70°. With that and that I finished my taxes today, I went down to make up a mental list of things that I need to wrap up and a list of what I want to work on next. As I walked past the bog I noticed that it was a much darker brown! Here's a shot about a week after the pour. It's kind of hard to see, but the far right end of the bog looked as light brown as some of the spots around the banks, but it was fully light brown in that area. Here's a shot I took tonight. As you can see, it has that rich Coffee brown color, which is what I was shooting for. So it seems that the Liquitex Pouring Medium just took some time to properly cure. I will definitely be using this again for my water scenes.
Really, really nice. So the key is the temp drops to -19 and your away from it for a month BTW, is that an N Scale boat and dock? If so from where? And can we see a close up photo please?
Thank you sir! I'm not 100% certain, but it sure seems to be leaning that way??? I had picked up a WS set of "Family Fishing" mainly for the boat. The dock will serve as a placeholder for now unless I can weather good enough to use.[/QUOTE] https://www.amazon.com/Woodland-Sce...pcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A2E137HZ093DQ5
Looks like you nailed it spot on there Allen. The boat looks cool. How do you like it? If you replace the dock, what are you thinking of going with?
Thanks Rich! The boat is OK, typical WS quality. With some weathering it'll probably pass? For the dock, I was thinking of using strip styrene?
