The greener side of life
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"Weeeelllll, ye see err" Snorted Giles ", T'wer like this. The ground be all grey when I went up to bed. In morning I opened my eyes and sneezed, but it bint never been like tis now"
With the other half being away for the week I have been able to get down and do a reasonable amount of the scenic modelling these past few days.
First up I got the sand paper out and attacked the sulptamold to give me better, i.e. smooth, surface to work on. Having done this and hovered up, the carpets, me, the carpets again and me again I pulled the out the paints. Starting with the rock faces I slapped on the grey. I was going to do more than one shade of grey here but the jaggity of the "rock" has caused lots of different shadows giving a rather nice effect, even if I do say so myself. Having slapped this paint on I dripped further quantities of grey paint in the area immediately next to the track, most not getting the track, well mostly. 
Brown paint time light brown in the crop field and a deeper richer brown for the riverbed.
Green came next slip, slap, slop it was done with some real finesse, I think not. Having done this I suddenly realised that I had put quite a bit of green paint where I should have used brown 
and I had already made up and used brown on the river bed. Never mind wait for the green stuff to dry and paint over the top.
Ballasting, a hateful job, but track does look silly if it's not done so out came the sand glue and damp stuff and down it went, and after drying out came the small screw driver to scrap off the errant bits, this is still an ongoing task on the river bridge board.
At this point I stopped working on the river bridge board and put all of my efforts into the tunnel and bridge boards. First bit down was a piece of grass matting to form a grazing field at the end of the board next to the Avonwick module. Then it was out with lots of PVA spreading this over the area at the top of the embankment. Static grass was then added to this using the electric tea strainer method. I used a blended mix of 4mm tall "grass" here. Having done this it was on with the embankments and other railway owned land. This was all done in 6mm grass, a little long for 2mm I hear you say. It is defiantly long if you start putting animals or other scalable items into it but if you don't do this it looks like unkept long grass. I wanted this to look different to the non railway owned land.
Nearly there now.
Next up was the area that will become wooded - in the photos this has come out looking rather red, it's not as bright in reality. I popped down some scatter, looked at it, consulted Giles, then got the paints out. Boy was it bright before I did this. But having toned it down the look has improved. It still needs more work but the basics are coming on.
A quick dab of glue up the middle of the lane followed by some extra scatter and the road becomes ruralised with grass growing up the middle.
Finally I added the bushes and hedges. In the photos I have placed a van on the road. You'd not want to meet someone else down there, but that's normal for this area.
I think the cameramen must have been a little drunk to get an angle like that!
An overall view of the curved board.
Final photo just showing the current state of play on the river bridge board.
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