Thanks Dan. There is good clearance on the spur to the engine house. However all the trains like to stop here for a tasting of fermented sugar juice. This is a cause of considerable bottlenecks. Tom![]()
I felt the back jungle still needed to be enlarged a bit and another roofline added on. So I did what the locals would do built a lean to over the waste basin using downed tree limbs, old wood and a well used piece of canvas.
First the wooden "super structure" was built up:
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Next I scrounged up a well used paint rag and some Elmer's white:
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Then I cut a piece of the rag to represent the canvas roof and soaked it in full strength white glue. I squeezed out the excess and draped it on the wooden frame :
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After the canvas fully dried I weathered it with A/I wash and dry brushed highlights:
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I now had a somewhat enlarged alcohol making facility and that's supposed to be a good thing.
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Thanks for looking!! Doc Tom:Coffee:
Banana trees are everywhere in Haiti. They provide much needed extra cash for the subsistence farmers working in the countryside.
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They are grown in any place that has nothing else growing and at times on very steep slopes.
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Nice Job Doctor!
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I wanted some banana trees for the Leogoane rural section of the mini layout. I found this interesting Pegasus plastic kit in 1:48 on the internet.
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Each little tree was built up from 4 plastic parts.
I painted them with spray paints and planted a grove of trees on the steep slope of the spur heading to the cane fields on the layout.
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The trees were a lot of fun to research, build,and plant on the layout. Hopefully it adds a little more authenticity to the Haitian sugar hauler in the 1920's.
Doc Tom
We really need a "MEGA -LIKE" button on this forum ........:King:
Thanks Tyler. More to come. doc TomDoc,
Great work. I just caught myself up on Bill's layout and it's great to see progress here as well.