You convinced me. No telescoping tubing. Besides, the tubing is expensive. The fence so far is quite costly (like almost half the price of the refinery kit).
I added more white for the parking lines to accommodate the new parking lot design, and then mixed up some dark gray artist's acrylics for the asphalt. It's way to dark, but it's just the first coat. I'll add another coat of a lighter gray to more closely match the access road to which it connects.
It seems to be drying pretty shiny and I'm seeing lots of brush strokes. I'm hoping some of these will disappear as it fully cures. The parking lines and the RR stop line are masked under this paint. I'm hoping I get them up without peeling the "asphalt" paint. We'll see.
You can clearly see that this looks like really new asphalt next to an older road. While that's pretty prototypical when road work is done, I'm going to try and match it a little better.
Tomorrow I'll finish the asphalt painting and use the stencil to put the RRXing in place. Then it will be time to paint the fence and add ground cover into the refinery. I'm worried about that. Even with the little painting/plastering I've done within the refinery's confines and loosen too many pipes for my liking, so putting down paint and scenic glue in between all those units isn't going to be fun and may not end well. I didn't know any other way of approaching it since landscaping first and then installing all the apparatus seemed impossible.
