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Ken don't those company's have a website?

Very nice indeed!

Thanks Ed :)

Horizon Hobbies bought Athern. Being they are a competitor of Walthers they won't let Walthers carry any Athern stuff. To get even Walthers bought Life-Like and won't let Horizon carry Life-Like.

Great to hear!

That's a great shot Drew, very realistic!

Thanks Drew, the fence is etched stainless. I think it came from Micro Engineering but don't have the package any more so I'm not sure.

Very nice, love the weathering on the roof!

Thx folks for the kind comments! Ron I didn't have any problems getting the decals to stick. I just slid them on the wall blotted off the excess water then applied softner so they would conform to the cracks and all. Keep in mind though you are not appling the decals to the hydrocal but to the...

Very nice!

Thx folks :)

Congrats Val! Mikey will be splitting his paycheck with you won't he???? :D

Thx Ralph!

Thanks Don. From the days when I used to work for a living I have a laser printer which I used to make the decals that I used for this project. After appling the decals I lightly sanded the larger black areas till the bricks showed thru.

And a close-up of the wall. This was a lot of fun, you can spend more time than you think detailing even this small of an area! :)

Here is the finished diorama:

Elsewhere in cyberworld a contest was sponsored to built a diorama using a hydrocal wall from Downtown Deco (the sponsor). Having never worked with hydrocal castings before (other than homemade rocks) I decided to give it a try. This is the N-Scale wall section I started with:

Ralph that is really coming along nicely, it's going to be a centerpiece of your layout for sure!

Nice work Tad!

Goes without saying Scooby!