Right, sorry for the lack of images of progress over the last week or so. Here's a mumma update to make up for that...
The first image is of the box of rock mouldings I made...
and the earth color (colour) kit which I'll be using to colour them...
One of the magnetic signs that I purchased from the FR shop which will be attached to the hidden sidings' fronts - saves a load of sign writing!
I'm still debating what kind of grass base to use. Our local 'instore' shop was selling this hanging basket liner (0.7m squared) for £2.49. Not bad and the colour is excellent, but are the strands overscale...?
Below is a comparision with the auhagen scenic matting. Once its out of the bag, it's just too gaudy. But the scale of the strands is much better. As discussed before, silflor is great but too expensive and thus I'm going to have to consider some other mattings as well (gaugemaster, woodland scenics etc.). As I learned from this auhagen one though, you have to buy one and get it out of the bag before you can really tell!
As I mentioned before much work has been done calculating heights and distances and marking this out on the boards...
The first layer of polyfilla for the ramped section at the end of the car park...
The marked out car park with the only two cars I have at the correct scale. The mini came from the WHR(P) shop in Porthmadog and cost just £1.25!
and, hot off the jigsaw tonight is the first (of 10) of the landscape formers. The clamp is holding on a piece of pine to be used to nail the former to the baseboard. The PVA was £1 from that instore shop again! The papers in the background are the plans and photos I've been pouring over to sort the levels in the last week.
Tomorrow should bring progress on other formers, there are 10 main ones and then work can progress on to...- using masking tape to hold down newspaper balls to create the contours
- a criss-cross of cardboard strips (yes those weetos boxes!) on top
- modroc applied on top of that and the scenic base starts to come together.
- then finally artex coloured with brown poster paint and the rock mouldings set into the artex
Happy times...
Colin
1 comment:
It's looking even gooder Verne!
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