![]() ![]() Good thing they are easy to remove and replace. The back row of seats had to be removed, as did the passenger side middle seat. I picked up a wall mount for the size screen I had, and came up with a plan. With the right hardware, I should be able to mount a flat screen not too far above the table. Again, something I had been mulling over in the intervening months every so often, and this inspiration kicked that into high gear. So, I had to come up with a way to put up a display. What good is a computer if I'm the only one who can see the tiny screen? Yeah, not much. Well, I couldn't do THAT with the APB LCD tower, so I needed to run things with a computer. The "Deluxe" package included fully structured racing for up to 30 people. One of them included one of the buildings I had borrowed, a snack shack, which you can see the back of above. This works very well, and gave me four pre-configured tree "areas" to place on the track. Since most of the trees were not mine, I couldn't permanently mount them. When the paint dried, I stuck the trees to the shapes of coroplast using blue-tack. I then cut those shapes out, and painted them. I set the trees up where I wanted them, and traced around them on the coroplast with a marker. Fortunately, I had some olive drab, matte spray paint. I knew I could paint it without it warping. I had some Coroplast (corrugated plastic, like cardboard but plastic) from a long ago project left over. It took some brainstorming, because I had bad experiences with cardboard and foam board being glued or painted, but I figured it out. I had the trees (owned and loaned) but I didn't want to make them permanent fixtures, nor did I want the track to look like it was MISSING things when the scenic elements weren't there. ![]()
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