As a result of my current financial status the project has been on hold
for a few weeks while I muster up some more cash to feed my addiction.
In the mean time I have been fiddling around with some minor details.
Tonight I sat down for about an hour in my shed and put together a
little diorama to test my skills. I have never attempted to create
scenery for a model railroad before so I figured I may as well see if I
can actually do it before I tackle the immense task of beautifying the
entire 9 square metres of table in the shed. From a few scraps I managed
to scrounge from boxes of childhood toys I managed to knock up this
little scene, there is much improvement to be made as I venture further
into scenery but for a start I am pretty content. I used a small off cut
of peco code 75 flex track, painted the sleepers with rail brown and
touched up the sides of the rails with a brown rusty colour, I then used
some old sand from a modelling kit to ballast the track, plastered the
rest of the ground, the plaster was coloured with an oxide and flocked
the rest of the scene with some fake grass i found lying around. after
rummaging through some tool boxes I found some small plastic parts which
i used for the drainage pipe for the little culvert under the track for
the creek bed and used bristles from a paint brush to construct some
reeds. and rusty nails as fence posts. The outcome is shown below, I’m
pretty content at this stage with the results
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