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I thought I'd add a different kind of blog than cars or weather, so here's one for my general personal activities. It will primarily be travel, but it could be about anything that I feel like sharing. 

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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Diorama Part 15

12/11/23 - Update Ok, we back to the the present time, and all I really have to share are a few more updated pictures. The main changes were the addition of three cars, lamp post for the park, and more trees. I've also rearranged the people a little bit and added more snow. This pictures are from 2020 until present.      
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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Village Diorama - Part 14

01/23/18 Here are the latest updated images. More changes coming that include lamp post in the park area (LED like the street lights), probably 3 vehicles (like the vehicle in this image) that have working headlights and taillights, more trees for the background, and I may re-work the frozen pond.    Just wanted to give you an idea of the size of things.... click on any image for a larger view.   2023 Note - This was the last of the original post.
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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Village Diorama - Part 12

10/23/16 - Well... is it done? Well, added the last coat of paint to the front of the base, glued down all the little people, added the skaters to the pond, finished the snow around the pond.... there really isn't much left to do. 🙂 I will go back and add more snow to the fall colored deciduous  trees and I'm still waiting on the rock wall to arrive so I can finish the left side of the park.  The night pictures don't really do it justice, I need a better camera to capture that. I may e
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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Village Diorama - Part 11

10/22/16 - Close now Today I painted the foam surround, or the sides of the base of the diorama. Now your eyes focus on the diorama because you're not distracted by the ugliness of the unfinished surfaced.  I added more white tint to the pond and I think I'm done with that feature. Once the water dries (tomorrow) I'll finish the landscaping and snow around the pond and add the skaters. In the end it will get a light dusting of snow, but that will wait until after the skaters are added.
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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Village Diorama - Part 10

10/21/16 - The Home Stretch Just a few items left to finish up before it's done.  The two main items to finish are the pond and park area, and the outside edge of the entire diorama. I have covered the front and part of the sides with 1/4" thick pieces of sheet foam as well as adding handles on the sides to help in carrying it around. The foam was glued tot he sides and hopefully today (Saturday) I will get it painted. I'm going with a dark forest green color, I think the dar
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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Village Diorama - Part 9

10/18/16 - Adding final touches I started putting foam sheeting around the outsides of the box holding the diorama, and I bought some dark green paint to cover it all up. More water was added to the pond, and I went out and bought a blue LED light to give the snow a moonlit glow... I think it works pretty well and matches the example in the previous group of pictures perfectly.   Next post:    
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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Village Diorama - Part 8

10/17/16 - Almost done I figure I'm about 90% done at this point. The park area needs more snow and the area around the pond needs more landscaping. I'm still adding the fake water to the pond and that may take another 5 or 6 days. By that time, the extra stone wall pieces and  4 trees, one that will be a Christmas tree, should be here.  I also have to add a little stack of wood that will be a bonfire. None of the little people are glued in place yet, and some not in the places t
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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Village Diorama - Part 7

10/16/16 - Working on The Park These images in this particular gallery don't necessarily appear in the proper order of assembly but you'll get the idea... Spent time today working on the Park feature. It's right in the front of the layout so I wanted it to look as good as I know how to make it, which at this point, probably isn't all that good. 🙂 I kept putting it off simply because I wasn't sure how I wanted it to look. I'm not sure why I have that fear... maybe it's just because this
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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Village Diorama - Part 6

10/13/16 - Construction Accident Started added Realistic Water today. I thought I would use E-Z Water until I heard some bad stories about it eating up foam, and changed my mind. So it's going to take more than a few layers to get it where I want it. The roads around the pond will not be in the position you see now, I'm just playing around with placement. Started adding snow to the all areas of the layout where there are shrubs and plants, and that required me to take the two left houses of
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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Village Diorama - Part 5

10/12/16 - Work continues... I painted the pond today, so that's going to dry for 24 hours before water goes in. I also added another layer of snow to the background hills, but I'm not sure how much I want to add.  With each layer, I spray Scenic Cement over what's already there, lay down the new snow, and then add another spray of Scenic Cement, so it takes some time to build it up.  Most of the stream has had it's last layer of water before the final "ice" layer. It's mostly the pond
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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Village Diorama - Part 3

10/10/16 - Night Scenes I took some pictures with the lights off for the first time, just to see how things were going to look in the dark. The houses all use a C7 Christmas light bulb for light. I've replaced some of the incandescent bulbs with LED's, but I'm not happy with the light output. I have some new ones on the way and hopefully they will work out better. The "Just Plug" street lights look awesome and cast a light that makes them look like real street lights, I'm very
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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Village Diorama - Part 2

10/10/16 - Busy Weekend Much more accomplished this weekend. Most of the landscaping except for the park area is done, although I find myself going back and adding and enhancing what I thought I had already completed. Can't help myself. 🙂 I've started adding the realistic water to the layout but it has to be added in layers so it's a slow process. I should have used a different water product and I still may on certain sections. And while it may look like snow, I haven't added any of that ye
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Christmas Diorama

Christmas Village Diorama - Part 1

I wrote a blog post on my old blog site back in 2016 about a Christmas Village Diorama that I was building, so I figured since we were coming up on Christmas, I would move the contents over here. Instead of one big post, I'll beak it up into several.  ------------------------------ I apparently have more hobbies than I thought I had. 🙂 My wife and I bought a bunch of Thomas Kinkade Hawthorne Christmas Village houses and buildings off of eBay to use as a Christmas display.  We put
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