Last time I had turned the painting of the embossed stone styrene sheets over to my wife. She offered to do it so who was I to turn the offer of help down?
That left me at a loss of what to do for a while. With time on my hands, I turned to some micro layout design on my old blog Small Model Railway Layouts. One concept was so well received that I will have to build it. You can find preliminary concept work here.
All this has been keeping me busy, but it's not getting any work done on the layout. So I forced myself into action, and I started the ground cover process. The first stage involves covering the baseboard with lightweight sparkle, and for obvious reasons is known as the snowscape stage.
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| The snowscape phase. |
Once that had dried. I set to and painted it with Woodlands Scenics ground colour. This is the same method as I've used on all my previous layouts.
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| Woodland Scenics ground colour down. |
Then, while looking at the location of my model on Google earth I happened upon a photo of the actual beach in front of where the works would have been located.
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| The beach where the Cuddle works are sited |
This helps immensely. Now I know what scenic treatment I have to do for the frontal area. To be honest, it looks an awful lot like Woodland Scenics Grey and Brown Talus. I reckon I have some in stock somewhere too. Put down a base coat of grey paint and scatter Talus liberally atop of it, and I should be good to go.
In other news, I've found another suitable locomotive to operate the line. It's "Petrolia" of the Blakesley Hall Miniature railway, before its rebuild in 1910. A remarkable looking thing. Only two pictures are known to exist of it though, so some conjecture will be needed to produce a model. But in my early days in Gn15 I used to do that all the time.
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| I think Petrolia will look great running on the layout (Wikimedia image) |
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