The New Jacquelin Park

VERY COOL Smooth, I like it!!!!   ---------------------Bill

The track is looking really good Monte!!!! Very nice work!!!

Hey, are those batteries for POWER tools I see there?????!!!!!!    ------------------Bill

Those are battery-powered, much safer for me!

So we've made more progress:

All the plaster cloth is in place except for Victoria's planned pond which will appear at the bottom of the down slope in the white area.  You'll note she installed a culvert in preparation (small black hose)

The borders are coming along pretty well.  I'm using Depron sheets that I saw 356Speedster using on the forums for his track.  The sheets come in a variety of thickness and I have found that 9mm is the magic number.  So I use a 3mm sheet which I can staple in place over layed with a 6mm sheet that is then glued into place.  The best part - you can cut it with a knife.

And this is how it ends up looking prior to plaster and paint.

Guess what I plan to do this weekend...

Oh, and those power tool batteries...  they were the dead ones I was using just to hold things down while the glue was drying.

One step forward, one step back...

So I found the wrong type of spray glue to use on the Depron foam.  Ran out of the Elmer's spray and found an older can of mounting spray.  Looked good for starters but after about 6 hours it curled the foam, top and bottom, not at all good.  At least it was a smallish section made of little bits and pieces.  So I went to the store and got the right type of glue and finished most of the curve sections.  Now for a few weeks of leveling and sanding... 

It occurred to me that I glued down aprons right where I had planned to plug in the chrono and lap counter.  Oh well, we have better ideas now.

I did get to turn a few laps last night testing the aprons.  About 300.

Well... I really don't have any idea about Exterior Pit Building Designs. ;>} Looking very nice though Monte!

I think you need to add REAL water!!!!

I vote for Real water too Bill! ;>}

OH BOY!!! More POWER & digital too!!!!

I can hardly wait!!!!!

Time for another track update.  We've finally started back n the stream area on the digital track.  We added a bunch of trees thanks to a gift of a box of Woodland Scenics build it yourself trees from Carl.  Then we begin laying in the stream.  For the Hills we used the bottled "water" that you just pour out and then wait for two days for it to cure.  It worked ok but suffered from silly underlying paint that make it look more like a swimming pool than a lake.  So, change in strategy!

I started with a cheap flat back base, no swimming pool for this track!

And this time we used the Woodland Scenics pellets.  Drop them in a pan, heat them up on the stove and pour.  Sounds easy. 

Here were the first results...

Not exactly the dark, glossy look I was after.  But not to despair, this just means that it didn't go on warm enough.  Pulled out the heat gun bought for my floor adventures last summer and went to work.  The stream heated up and re-flowed bit by bit resulting in this:

Now that's what I'm talking about!  Work continues.