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Stour Valley Dream - Water, water and fortunately not everywhere


Fen End Pit

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Some more progress on the larger of the two bridges at the Haverhill end of the layout, Ironically I'm building a model of the Stour valley but neither river is actually the River Stour. This is actually a mill race rather than the main river.

 

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I had to purchase another set of Woodland Scenics deep pour water to finish the job. Excellent service from Hattons, ordered on Sunday night, delivered Tuesday morning. Mind you, the price of the stuff probably implies that is it made from Dragon Tears fermented in golden vats over a fire made from Dollar bills... At the moment the surface is mirror smooth (apart from some ballast which has fallen on to it and I didn't brush off before the photographs. The intention will be to add some ripples from Mod Podge. I embedded some fine green string fibres into the river bed and I think the effect is pretty good.

 

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The other big job was sorting out the fascia. A piece of thin ply covers up the more functional ply underneath.  It all makes the layout look quite presentable, particularly as I spent sometime tidying up the railway room.

 

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Over Christmas I did a 'stock check' of the library and current count of railway books is around 750. I wonder what 'too many railway books' looks like. The complete run of MRJ and Bylines takes up a fair bit of space too.

 

More static grass now on order....

 

David

 

 

 

 

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