And back to the landscape. While doing the papier mache for the other side of the tracks it turned out that the hill was a bit steeper than intended, so another set of sleeper steps went in, glued to a cardboard former as previously.

The flash messing the photo up again. The steps have been weathered since - you guessed it, chalks again.

Time to un-mow the grass.

But then I looked at the pile of bits left over from the assorted walls and got this idea of having a wall going from sound to rubble/foundations along the ridge. Lumps of DAS were placed and shaped to make the wall almost level, and then more papier mache added to raise the ground level. Further along the smaller bits of wall were cut up and some placed like rubble form a fallen wall, some representing the lower course sticking out of the ground (photo later in the static grass post).

Also added was the sky. The join between land and sky will be hidden by any old bushes that turn up as things progress - the bushes being the remains of some sort of formal garden that used to be behind the wall sort of thing.

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