Barchester
A 00 Gauge Model Railway
April 2005.
Making progress after a week but must always remember to paint any extra detail for buildings before adding it as a careless slip of the brush can ruin hours of work.. Have been making tree armatures (tree trunks) in my 'spare' time. The trunks and branches just need plastering up and colouring and then I can think of some kind of foliage.
Found a supply of sawdust and have been sieving it into different grades for ground cover and also drying out used tea bags for future ballasting and ground cover. Also found a supplier of Dylon dyes so I can colour the sawdust for grass and foliage etc. You only need a couple of shades of green because the depth of colour depends on how much dye you add to the water before putting the sawdust in.
Finished the planked fencing round the timber yard and it looks quite good. Started laying ground cover round the canal basin, laying rock surfaces down and colouring them and cutting up varying lengths and thicknesses of card, after using wood dyes for various effects, to represent the piles of timber in the yard.
Couple of weeks into the month and you can see the progress that is being made. So far everything you see in this picture, card, plaster, water colours and dyes with a bit of varnish comes to less than two pounds sterling. Can't be bad eh?
Speaking of work surfaces. This is my work table with it's usual clutter. I don't seem to able to produce results if the area is all spick and span. Or is that just an excuse?
Couple of weeks into the month and you can see the progress that is being made. So far everything you see in this picture, card, plaster, water colours and dyes with a bit of varnish comes to less than two pounds sterling. Can't be bad eh?
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Still haven't found a satisfactory foliage system for my tree formers, pity because the tree shapes are great. So far have tried teased out pan scrubbers, ditto sisal, plastic leaves off artificial flowers and then covered in scatter material, teased out wire wool ditto with the scatter, still not satisfied. I could buy them of course but really good trees are very expensive and I don't have a bottomless pension.
Found the plate glass top off a coffee table that someone was throwing away, it's about 2'6" by 18" and is ideal for my work surface. It's perfectly flat and easy to clean, brilliant.
Speaking of work surfaces. This is my work table with it's usual clutter. I don't seem to able to produce results if the area is all spick and span. Or is that just an excuse?
