Parks and Recreation go mental...
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As it has been another nice day here on the Welsh coast and the grass mat had arrived I decided to finish off the landscaping of the Civic Centre and also complete the New Courthouse Square. The Civic Plaza needed an airbrush wash of gunk to tone down the "Portland" concrete and the grass mat needed rolling out for the lawns. I think the Director of Parks and Recreation is aiming for an award at the Chelsea Flower show, or has gone a bit Radio Rental and blown the next five year's budget on floral displays.
The frontage of the Civic Centre as it will look from New Courthouse Square. The two storey ex-Vollmer station will house lock up shops on the ground floor with a Councillor's reception, with steps up to official offices for the senior councillors. The Council chamber is on a mezzanine at the rear, fronting onto the Member's terrace. Main council offices on the left, with the main public entrance, reception and paying in offices at the rear.
The Peace Garden and War Memorial on Civic Plaza, now that the final landscaping is in place.
Floral displays courtesy of various sellers on the Bay of Tat. Why waste time trying to make your own when others are selling them for not a lot? Gives me time to concentrate on creating a believable setting, and things like airbrush weathering which doesn't show up too well in this shot, but has toned down the pinky-beige simulated Portland concrete.
Overall vista from the visitor's car park. Overall I'm quite pleased with the result, I just need to decide what to do about lighting as the boards are designed to be removable for track access, which precludes the usual rat's nest underboard lighting electric supply. However, some more serial TatBay surfing has thrown up a potential solution...
New Courthouse Square, before the glue had set. The paving is 3d printed, as is the bus shelter and "Law Courts" planter-sign. I painted the paving and the base ply with Gesso, which gives a good dark black finish. It then had an overspray with the airbrush. Part of me thinks it should be given another overspray with some lighter grey as asphalt is rarely completely black unless freshly laid, but I do like the Gesso finish. Again, Parks and Rec have gone riot with the floral displays.
The new Central Library with Pat Butcher's earring inspired Circular Arguments sculpture now placed within a proper landscape setting. You can just make out the colourful interior of the library, a 3d print I designed to allow me to illuminate the building at some point. The gluey mess next to the bus stop will be cleaned up at some point!
Courthouse Square overall view. The Central Police Station, Shaw Taylor House, will be on the left mounted on a separate board, Building the scenery on removable modules has helped enormously with the decoration and construction, and will enable me to do the track-laying next week unencumbered by having to reach over buildings.
The court house is a Vollmer "New Ulm" station and the Library began life as a Chinese kit from Alibaba until I ended up making a pig's ear of it and it ended up more as a kit-3d print hybrid semi scratchbuild.
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