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I pulled off all the masking today. It wasn't particularly easy since some of the tape embedded itself into the plaster. All in all things looked pretty good, but I had to spend time using a small dental chisel scraping the plaster margins at the rail head.

 

Roadwork 4

In all of these pictures, the filler pieces between the rails are just placed there for fitting. I'm trying to decide what gluing method I'm going to use, Hot Glue or something slower curing.

 

Here's another view of the newly exposed road surface. In this case, the road too high approaching the track. I used a hopper car through each of these prepared crossing to check for any interference. In this case it impinged on the corner that's noted in the picture. I took the B&D mouse sander and went at it actually cutting through the Bristol Board and into the road's foam substrate. When painted it will look okay. 

 

Roadwork 5

 

At the other end of Main Street the interference went beyond the edges of the wheels. As shown here, the truck's side frame was contacting the plaster.

 

Roadwork 63

 

Again, I went at it with a vengeance and lowered the offending corner sufficiently to allow a car to pass with no interference.

 

Roadwork 7

 

With the last problem solved, I started painting all this bare plaster and sprinkled brown basic ground cover all over. This will get more treatment to give it more "life", but for now, it looks soooo much better than bare Sculptamold.

 

Roadwork 8

And this last pic shows the back road, leveled, de-masked, and ready for further finishing.

 

Roadwork 10

 

You'll also notice that the city edges are also painted and ground covered, until I ran out of paint. I bought another quart of Behr Ultra "Burnt Almond" custom-mix. It has primer qualities and covers like crazy. This is my third quart and I'll probably need another when I start working on the right-end of the layout sometime later this year.

 

I'll finish the ground cover work tomorrow. I'll then install the crossing fillers and paint all the road plaster and the fillers the same gray mix I used for the roads and then give them a weathering shot with the air brush. I'm also going to paint the road at the back of the layout. And with that, I'll start building ravine #1 (Could be on Thursday...)

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