Thank you, Alex and Alan!
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While I was waiting for the paint to dry on the mountain and tunnel portals (above posts), I started on Lake Chiemsee, which is the largest lake on the Hidden Pass Junction RR.
It is made of a piece of Aquatex glass (thank you Dennis Brennan) approximately 24” x 43” x 41” x 46” with just one right angle. I painted the bottom of the lake, the side of the glass with the most texture, Rust-Oleum Night Tide. I liked the Camouflage Green that Dennis and others have used for their harbor scenes, but since mine is a lake, I wanted a hint of blue, and the Rust-Oleum Night Tide fits the bill nicely.
Due to the somewhat trapezoidal shape of the glass (except it has no parallel sides) it is easy to slide it back about two inches out of the three-sided grooved frame, and lower it. I built two rails under the lake to rest the glass once it is slid out from its frame. The rails are about two inches lower than the glass.
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Lake Chiemsee almost finished (not done with details around the lake)
Another view
Glass slid out of the frame to become an access hatch
The 48X-size giant pops up to do detail work.
Frame detail and rail. The grooves on the frame are 3/8 deep and 7/32 wide (glass is 5/32 thick)
View of the frame at the front side.
Little by little, I'll get it all done . . .
Thanks for looking
Alex