Scenery - Structures
South Dakota State Railroad Museum Hill City Diorama
This is my second entry in the Spearfish Canyon Diorama build for the South Dakota Railraod Museum in Hill City South Dakota. In this second entry i have been busy placing molds with 20 Min. sheetrock mud. After about 30 min. I peel the mold off and the mud is still soft enough to take some tools a shape the cast to blend in with the mold next to it. it is a slow process but is very real looking when complete. The TV in the back ground has a photo of Bridal viel falls in Spearfish canyon. THe falls will be on this end.
Road Bridge - Backdrop Transition...
School holidays have finished, that means back into the layout again.
Today was spent working on installing the road bridge that will hide the backdrop to layout transition.
Made something unintentional
I broke through a layer of grout on my layout in order to dig into the foam in order to sink a glacial erratic into it.
I let some of the grout fall into it and added a little pre mixes grout and misted it with water.
I noticed it somewhat looked like a sink hole or somewhat like an excavate one, so I took a shot of it. Maybe I'm on to something.
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Lets see your glacial erratic or erratics; if you have any.
I have been entertaining the idea of a glacial erratic for my newest module.
I'm thinking of something similar to this
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and this rock caught me eye while looking at some gravel today.
South Dakota State Railroad Museum Hill City Diorama
I have decided to help out Rick Mills at the South Dakota State Railraod Museum in Hill City with a diorama he wanted built, to represent Spearfish canyons Sandstone cliffs the dual gauge Ralroads and the Pondarosa, Spruce, paper birch and the scenery of the Black Hills of South Dakota. So this is my begining of the concept all the way to finish. So we have decided to use some models built by past modeler from the area.
Paint recommedations @Joe
@Joe,
Vallejo paint recommendations. I am in the process of updating my paint supplies. I have mostly tamiya, polyscale and some testors. I want to get into the vallejo line of paints. I will be both airbrushing as well as brush painting things. Does model air work ok for brush painting? Is there a set you could recommend that I can buy to give me a supply of assorted paints to get me started?
Many thanks.
Randy.
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