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chuck geiger

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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #45 on: October 15, 2025, 10:32:43 AM »
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Yes, I had to squeeze this together; it's actually there, but farther up from that intersection. Let me look into doing it. Love this 💡
BTW, there are also faded painted RR XING markings on the road where you almost can't see them.










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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #46 on: October 15, 2025, 11:27:30 AM »
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Quote from: chuck geiger on October 14, 2025, 03:41:26 PM
October (that's when Google took the pics lol) - It looks dry/barren in the areas with no base scenery grass and trees.

When you're right you're right. Looking at that photo you just posted confirmed it.

I think the incomplete areas might be throwing off my perception.
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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #47 on: October 15, 2025, 01:50:35 PM »
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Dig this:





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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #48 on: October 15, 2025, 05:01:24 PM »
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Quote from: chuck geiger on October 15, 2025, 01:50:35 PM
Dig this:







Sweet -- but all the rednecks out there wash their trucks ;)
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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #49 on: October 15, 2025, 07:14:15 PM »
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How are supposed to cruise the Sonic with a nasty truck?

Or whatever the regional thing is there.

Unless it’s a jacked up four wheel drive. Then the muddier the better.
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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #50 on: October 17, 2025, 10:26:13 AM »
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Quote from: OldEastRR on October 15, 2025, 01:57:13 AM
Wouldn't there be faint remnants of the grade crossing where the wye went over the highway? At least a newer-looking (less beat-up) patch job where the rails and timbers were removed.

Better modeling through peer pressure strikes again!



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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #51 on: October 21, 2025, 10:53:21 AM »
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Working on the COM tower arrangement at the diamonds:









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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #52 on: October 21, 2025, 12:56:33 PM »
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Tuesday Tie Stacks:



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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #53 on: October 21, 2025, 03:58:22 PM »
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Love that texture !!!
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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #54 on: October 21, 2025, 06:55:23 PM »
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Wooden ties soaked in water and "pavement" colored craft paint. For some reason, it looks like creosote.
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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #55 on: October 29, 2025, 08:50:07 PM »
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After back and forth on whether to get Supertrees or not, I decided on JTT, with a mix of deciduous trees and clusters of wire trees mixed with bramble to get the proper ensemble. I think I can make this work. The JTT trees take an awful lot of paint when airbrushing Taniya paint thinned with IPA. Better to just spray bomb them and use a fan brush with fall colors for October. Switchstands are in from Osborne Models. Equipment sheds and tower are in. Going to move down the line and get the next grade crossing in.











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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #56 on: October 30, 2025, 01:33:49 PM »
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Getting there...

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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #57 on: October 30, 2025, 06:06:46 PM »
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@wm3798 Lee taught me a workaround, taking the sedum branches and putting several levels of them together from the lower to the highest part of the tree. I did that, waiting for the gesso and glue to dry. I did this by taking sedum armatures and adding glued-on branches of baby's breath, polyfiber wisps, grass turf, and then the JTT fall turf, which looks like leaves. The spray tip on a can of Arleens spray had clogged, and it gunked up the polyfiber, so it looks too spiderweb-like.





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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #58 on: October 30, 2025, 06:11:22 PM »
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Take a couple of pieces of brown thread and run up the trunk of the tree. Then you’ll have made vines.
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Re: NS Danville Secondary Highland St.
« Reply #59 on: November 13, 2025, 05:33:51 PM »
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Nice day to work on train stuff!







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