Thanksgiving progress

First - I completed the overpass.  Pretty much.  For now.  The road is paved, painted and striped; the bridge girders are secured to the sides.  I like how the whole thing came out, and I expect it'll look even better with some trees, ground cover, and details someday.  I still have to figure out guardrails for the middle of the road, and eventually some traffic signals at the intersection.

Second - I "finished" painting the track.  Krylon Camouflage Flat Brown spray paint, once over each side and once down the middle, then use a rag to wipe off the top.  Then a track cleaning block to clean off any remaining paint.  I ran a train around a few times to make sure everything runs, and I'd say it's no worse than before.  And it looks good.  Even better someday when I get to ballasting....

Third - which leads us into, two steps forward one step back.  I've been annoyed by one of the turns for some time and only tonight screwed together the guts to rip it up.  Well, pry it up.  Carefully using an exacto knife, I was able to pry up the track along that area and I'm experimenting with a better arrangement.  A more gradual entrance to the turn.  Those expensive Exactrail gondolas like to hop the rails, especially entering that turn.  I thought it's best to address this now rather than after I do the ballast.

Lessons learned:

1. That Krylon paint dries faster than I had read elsewhere that it would.  Waiting 10 minutes meant it was pretty dry and I needed to use a knife to scrape off the paint.  After that, I waited maybe 30 seconds and got right to wiping it off.  Worked great from there.
2. If you can, plan to do this in the summer, when it's feasible to have all the windows open.  I picked a 45 degree day, which was as good as we're going to get in late November here.  It just meant the house was kinda cold for the day.
3. Err on the side of caution and mask/move anything remotely near where you're spraying.  It's less trouble than ruining/having to repaint something else later.