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Old 02-17-2011, 09:18 PM   #21
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WELL YA GOT A GREAT START.
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Old 02-17-2011, 09:35 PM   #22
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MAN THAT IS THE SHIZNIT!! I would love to have that in my yard. Keep up the good work. Keep us posted
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Old 02-17-2011, 09:41 PM   #23
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NICE! I would have killed to have something like that when I was younger. Now that I own a home..... I'm too lazy to put in all that work. lol.
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Old 02-18-2011, 09:52 AM   #24
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Man, great job. That is going to be a lot of fun when you get closer to finished.
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Old 02-19-2011, 10:56 PM   #25
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Was able to get a couple more bags of concrete down and painted up the bridge so it didn't look so non-scale....









Unfortunately, the cats have found the roadway for the trucks and started dropping more obstacles for me to get around. Definitely don't want to clean that stuff out of the tires....
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Old 02-20-2011, 07:18 AM   #26
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lookng pretty nce, making some pretty good progress.
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Old 02-20-2011, 09:20 PM   #27
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Was able to get a couple more bags of concrete down and painted up the bridge so it didn't look so non-scale....









Unfortunately, the cats have found the roadway for the trucks and started dropping more obstacles for me to get around. Definitely don't want to clean that stuff out of the tires....

nothin better then some kitty land mines to crawl through
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Old 02-20-2011, 09:41 PM   #28
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Hey thats a pretty awesome setup you have there.Depending how much ran you get in your area,you might want to water seal that wood so it last longer under that plastic.Home depot has it in arisal cans.
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Old 02-27-2011, 02:06 PM   #29
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Well the snow came, again..... and as we were getting so close to completion.
So, in the interim, I got around to painting another body for my truck. I don't know if I'll ever put this one on... but it occupied some of my time and allowed me to practice painting lexan bodies.
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Old 02-27-2011, 02:13 PM   #30
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That looks good. We have a ton of rock at work and a couple disappear each day
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Old 02-27-2011, 02:51 PM   #31
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nice work on the course. im really diggin the signs and the hill climb looks pretty tough. how much coloring do you add to the concrete and what kind? when i start putting concrete down in my ravines i want to add color.
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Old 02-27-2011, 04:03 PM   #32
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nice work on the course. im really diggin the signs and the hill climb looks pretty tough. how much coloring do you add to the concrete and what kind? when i start putting concrete down in my ravines i want to add color.
We just went by the instructions and add 1 bottle of quickcrete color to 2 80lb bags of concrete and it seems to work well. Just make sure to mix it in with water before adding it to the concrete if your mixing by hand... much easier to get uniform color that way. My first attempt at coloring didn't go as planned, but nothing a little dirt wont hide.

I think we are going to steal the idea of the 2 lane mud run also between the cabin and ramp to the bridge. Just gotta water proof my truck first.
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Old 02-27-2011, 05:24 PM   #33
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good job on the course it looks gr8
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Old 02-27-2011, 07:26 PM   #34
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oh alright, yea i didnt mix it with water first. thanks!

ok cool. im still working on mine. its a pain to keep it mucky. going to line the walls an floor with concrete and try to find lake mud.
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Old 02-27-2011, 09:06 PM   #35
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man this course is wicked! love these course build threads
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Old 02-28-2011, 01:21 PM   #36
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This is wicked awesome ... it makes me wish I had a backyard to do this in!
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Old 03-01-2011, 04:02 PM   #37
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We are just getting started, so it has a ways to go, but wanted to start posting pics of the progress to get ideas from others as where to go next. I'm trying to create multiple runs, tunnels, bridges, and eventually some kind of water feature. The nice weather is here, so hope to build pretty quick.
i like it. i'm trying to build mine using plastic. found a great place for materials at http://www.iplasticsupply.com/ and hightech plastics.com
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Old 03-03-2011, 08:16 PM   #38
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i like it. i'm trying to build mine using plastic. found a great place for materials at http://www.iplasticsupply.com/ and hightech plastics.com
For our build, we wanted to go as cheap... I mean, inexpensive as possible. Soon, there will be a border around the whole thing, alot more rock, and hopefully we will have a nice rockgarden the wife will be happy with.
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Old 03-03-2011, 08:21 PM   #39
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looks really good, like the signs!!!
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Old 03-03-2011, 08:27 PM   #40
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Course is not totally done yet. Still need to find some 1/10 scale Bud Light cans or bottles to put on the porch of the cabin.

Here's a real quick video of my scx-10 driving on the course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUT6DutPaW8
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