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Eleven gallons of Kilz 2 went on the walls and ceiling. Masking around fifteen four-foot ceiling fixtures and several other appliances took almost as much time as the rest of the surface.
This weekend will be ceiling white, on the ceilings. I think I’ll paint everything before I start cutting holes in the walls. There’s also the little matter of fifteen route-feet of track (maybe 25 track-feet) of track to lay to connect the existing West Wichita to the place where new benchwork will start. This area has CVT tie strips, and CVT turnouts with frogs and other stuff from Proto:87 stores. I’ve been experimenting here — I cut out the plastic frogs I had originally laid from the stock CVT turnouts since I like the metal frogs better.
Has anybody noticed that the selection of investment-cast frogs, in terms of the combinations of frog style, size and angle, is pretty limited? The Proto:87 stuff is the best I’ve found, and it colors pretty well when you drop the frog into Micro Engineering’s blue selenium rail-weathering solution. Here, I’m beginning to install Blue Point turnout controls. Maybe when I get more experience, I’ll summarize it on the handlaidtrack Yahoo group.
Ron Merrick
