Caravan review
New tree
New path
Gas holder fence
Water tank
Another good session with all three engrossed in their own projects.
Geoff had added sky blue panels to his caravan body, fitted wheels and finished the tow bar detailing.
After approval the previous week, Stephen had taken one of his Gn15 tree skeletons and completed the finer detail work. Stainless steel wire wool was added to produce branch structure. Torn-off shapes were pushed into place and 'fixed' with cheap hairspray, which worked surprisingly well. This was first sprayed matt black and then touched-in with lighter brown matt spray paint. More hairspray was used to stick three colours of medium sponge foliage.
After a quick site appraisal, Geoff turned up a steel base 'toadstool' which was glued into the hillside and the tree was 'planted'. During the week, Geoff and Stephen had been searching for inexpensive cows, without immediate success, but the space under the tree now cried-out for a herd!
Stephen continued to build-up the ground behind the new path. It will be shaped next week, when fully dry. Finishing the grassy bank was discussed in detail as it now had to soften the transition into the backscene. Elsewhere, we'd re-used the rubberised horsehair that John had applied, but we had none left, but we did have some of the new foliage/scatter that we'd overlaid on it. Stephen would experiment with wirewool to form a base. The hedge or fence decision teetered towards a fence, but not with any strong conviction. TBA.
Geoff painted and fixed the section of guard rail that protects the gas holder area. It was left over from the generator room mezzanine guard rail exercise and has come in handy. Maybe a few weeds or bits of grass?
Laurence continued with the water tank roof.
Geoff found a box of Peco iron railings and assembled five sections to make a fence between the coal stage and the road, which finished the area off nicely.
