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inspiration and the prototype.....


DriffCharlie

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The following links should help to show how very "low-budget" and MUDDY this site was...

 

 

 

www.ingr.co.uk/faring

 

 

 

so the mud has started ...

 

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Ive used Lightweight filler mixed with poster paint, seems to be a convincing start so far....but got a long way to go to get to this messy stage....

 

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then I aquired the much needed mini-digger, there isnt really enough room on the layout for a scale JCB backhoe and besides the full size tile works now has a mini-digger on site..so its prototypical....

 

 

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and the weeds have started to grow already.....

 

 

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Enjoy,

 

Charlie

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The mud shape looks pretty convincing, a coat of gloss varnish with puddle of it in the hollows and it should be nearly there.

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Thanks John, yes thats the general idea for the wet look allthough I have LOTS of "greenery" to make first ie reeds/bullrushes/weeds etc that line these Banks, for the mud I've been experimenting with artists acrylics as they leave a convincing "sheen" rather than a full "gloss".... onwards......

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Hello Charlie, what with me being a recalcitrant hippopotamus, anything with "MUD" in the title is of immediate interest. I'm just sooo jealous of the bloke with the cool hat and wellies shovelling sh*te! (In fact - surely not? - that picture on your wall in the bottom piccy could almost be a fellow hippo!)

 

Anyway, less of this idle chatter, actually I wanted to let you know that your embedded link 'www.ingr.co.uk/faring' is actually embedded as 'http://http//www.ingr.co.uk/faring.html%22>http://http//www.ingr.co.uk/faring.html' - and therefore doesn't function very well.... :) You may want to edit that!

 

Nonetheless I found the actual website, and there's some fascinating stuff on there, even for a standard-gauger like me. Do you intend to include any of the water in the clay pit lapping alongside the mini-digger?

 

I'll definitely keep looking in on this now.

 

Neil

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Hi Neil, thanks for the accolade... I've fixed the embedded link now (hopefully).. Glad your liking the "mud" hahahaha....

 

..and oh yes theres LOADS of muddy water on order for the layout too...LOL...

 

Charlie

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