Dec 2010-Jan 2011 – Here you can see the huge chunk I cut out between the first two tunnels. To reattach and properly realign the segment, I drilled small holes on one side, and inserted glue covered dowling.  Then I got the two halves aligned the way I wanted, pressed them carefully a bit together, leaving an impression of the dowling positions.  Then I drilled each one of those impressioned, covered the other end of the dowling with glue (and the facing parts of each half) and shoved them together.  Painful process.  Hate tearing apart scenery.  But I had to have it accurate, and my third visit had revealed the obvious distance mistake I had made.  I then patched the cracks between the two halves with spackling, painted and coloured it.  By now, the formerly solid mass of foam comprising the tunnels was in four pieces, which turned out to be a good thing.  The more spackling I added, the heavier each chunk got.

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