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snowey
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February 2001
From: US
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RIVER
Posted by
snowey
on Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:39 PM
I'm buiding a river on my layout that's approximetaly 3 and a quarter inches long, and 5" at one end tapering out to 10" at the other end (so I can fit an Atlas and a Walthers bridge over it). If I use clear styrene for the surface-3 1' peices) how can I disguise the seams where the peices join? Maybe with acrylic gloss medium tinted blue-which I plan to spread on the styrene anyway? I don't want to get a 3' peice of styrene.
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Anonymous
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April 2003
305,205 posts
Posted by
Anonymous
on Saturday, March 20, 2004 11:17 PM
Hi Snowey
Your idea sounds like it would work, but you might want to try it out on some scrap pieces first. I would think you'll need to use styrene that's thick enough not to sag. Another suggestion is to use plexiglass. It's cheaper than styrene and would be easy to use in one piece. I read an artical in M.R. where plexi glass was used as water surface and clear silcone sealer was used for waves. Also the river bottom was deep and detailed and the facia was cut away along the river bottom and replaced with lightly green tinted plexiglass so the facia didn't look like a dam and you could see the details.
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