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Liking this more and more , the nice flowing landform down to the river looks

really good . And the cottage garden is pretty tasty too .

 

Waiting for the next update already .

Looks really good. Could I ask how you made the stonework on the embankment and the garden wall?

Looks really good. Could I ask how you made the stonework on the embankment and the garden wall?

 

Hi Mikkel,

The stone walls are made from Wills random stone sheets, For the cottage walls I used the Wills sheets for the inside and outside faces with a layer of plain 2mm Plasticard as the sandwich filling to give me the thickness I wanted.

The stone capping is just offcuts of various thickness Plasticard cut to rough shapes and individually glued on with MEK.

The last part was time consuming but worth it I think.

I then just painted the finished job in shades of grey and gave the whole lot a few washes of dirty thinners.That's it job done.

 

Cheers

Frank

Very nice, everything is coming together really well and it looks like you are putting your retirement to good use Frank. When will we see something crossing the bridge with a couple of Crimson and Cream coaches in tow ?

 

Geoff

The stone capping is just offcuts of various thickness Plasticard cut to rough shapes and individually glued on with MEK.The last part was time consuming but worth it I think.

 

Definitely!

 

Thanks for the info Frank.

The colouring is outstanding: gery, but varying shades of.

Nice one, Frank!

Neat model - love that bridge.