The Little Rock Line

[chessie system fan]

It just needs a few turtles on the logs sunning themselves.   

[Jesse6669]

The river looks fantastic.  Will mentally bookmark this for whenever I may model a river..!

[Mark5]

Jumping in to upvote those water scenes. 

[OldEastRR]

"Typical flatland river through farm country" look the day after a spring rain: all the loose dirt washed in from the newly-plowed fields makes the water murky brown. More good Midwestern topsoil shipped to the Gulf of Mexico.

[N Scale Train Boy]

Wow, yeah excellent work! The color of the water, the way the logs are shoved up against the piers, it tells the story of a recent strong storm, and I love scenery that tells a story!

[Bendtracker1]

Wow, yeah excellent work! The color of the water, the way the logs are shoved up against the piers, it tells the story of a recent strong storm, and I love scenery that tells a story!

Thanks for the kind words.

[lock4244]

I got the river poured the other night, it's not exactly what I was shooting for but I'll take it.
When mixing the paint into the acrylic medium it was just like the bog, the Pouring medium is translucent and it's more or less a guess on how much paint to add to it. 

It turned out more of a solid brown than a translucent brown that I was hoping for but maybe that is a good thing?  It definitely took on a muddy look but not the bright orangish brown like I've seen in Google Map images.  In the case of the bog, a few days after I poured it, it started to take on a lighter brown color.  After a month or so I noticed the light color receded and went back to the dark Coffee Brown that I originally wanted.  So we'll wait and see what happens after a few weeks?

One thing I am happy with is the surface texture.  It's not a smooth, glossy surface.  It's actually kind of wavy which adds to the reflection so it's not like a perfect mirror reflection.  It gives the illusion of flowing water.

Here is where the scene is at.  This is only one pour, about 1/16" to 1/8" thick.  If I recall the medium did shrink a bit in the bog, so a second pour might happen?
I did photoshop some of the clutter out on the right side.

This looks amazing!

[Bendtracker1]

Thank you sir!

[Philip H]

Definitely passes the thousand mile test for color! The log jams are good too - though you need a guy in a bass boat trying to get his line unhooked from one of them for authenticity.

My one gentle critique is there’s not really enough verticality to your vegetation along the banks. Granted I have t been in that section of the Ouachita in a LONG time but I’d wager there cattails, some scrub bushes and brambles rising up at the waters edge. Good news is you can add a lot of that without any threat to your other excellent work.

[Bendtracker1]

Definitely passes the thousand mile test for color! The log jams are good too - though you need a guy in a bass boat trying to get his line unhooked from one of them for authenticity.

Can easily be added Philip.

My one gentle critique is there’s not really enough verticality to your vegetation along the banks. Granted I have t been in that section of the Ouachita in a LONG time but I’d wager there cattails, some scrub bushes and brambles rising up at the waters edge. Good news is you can add a lot of that without any threat to your other excellent work.

There is definitely still more to be added to this  this is just the base.  I didn't want to start adding stuff until I was sure about the water, whether it needed a second pour or not?
There will be a lot of trees to be added (more than just "a tree a night"), there will also be more stuff on and along the sandbar, just waiting for some details.
Thanks for the kind comments Philip!

[Frank Amato]

Nailed the concrete color and weathering on the bridge piers, love it !!!

  Frank

[Bendtracker1]

After getting the Ouachita bridge scene pretty well wrapped up (I just need to make the trees), I got the Iowa Scaled Engineering IIAB (Interlocking in a Box) installed and working.

https://youtube.com/shorts/MZTC6oR3NAQ?si=yXWMO-7j1WR1Czvf

While doing that, I ordered a couple of distant signals from Custom Signal Systems and got them weathered, added a "D" plate to them and got them installed and working.  These will only display a single yellow aspect.

[Bendtracker1]

My one gentle critique is there’s not really enough verticality to your vegetation along the banks.

The last thing I did before the OS Omaha operating weekend in October was to get the trees planted along the Ouachita river scene.
Of course I still need to get some finer details added.

[Philip H]

That’s a really good scene Allen

[Bendtracker1]

That’s a really good scene Allen

Thank you Philip!