Model Railways
The Rebuild - The Work Continues:
The work continues.
First Published July & August 2013
Following on from Phase 1, here is further development of the layout, starting with the snow and trees.
Some trees had bases and so I removed these, the only problem was that the had very short trunks as shown. This is where the cotton buds come in handy, I removed the cotton heads and cut the tubes into 3. I painted them brown and and slotted the trees into them. With the small hand drill I drilled holes for the trees, dropped a blob of glue on the holes and then put the trees in them.
More 'snow' added, the snow is just white plaster, to be sprinkled later with modellers snow powder.
A slight change with the river, the screwdriver in the feed tube is to stop it getting clogged up while working around it. I have used gloss yacht varnish for the base of the river, this serves two purposes firstly, it waterproofs it and secondly when the water is not actually running it still gives a realistic water look.
These pictures show the layout with the rest of the trees, bushes etc. added the snow effect sprinkled. It isn't evident by these photographs but the river does have running water.
More Greenery added.
