I've finally started to do the residential area behind the Hoovertown business district.  As with the business district I want to do the work off the layout, so the first step is to make a removable support structure.  Once the support structure is completed, I'll remove it from the layout and place it on my work table to add the streets, landscape, structures, etc.

I purchased some clumps of Silflor in a late summer green. I've got plenty of them though that I would like different colors without having to purchase another $30 dollar sheet. What is the best method to color silflor? AIM chalk or floquil or pollyscale paint? Can it be done? Here's a picture of what I've got. I want some yellow faded clumps of grass strewn in with the green.

(The woodland scenic straight grass looks bad and will be replaced)

I've finally finished, for now, the work on my Klitsa Koal mine. The mine is scratchbuilt using wood I cut in my shop, parts from a plastic kit, balsa and tinfoil for the roofing. The bridge is a scratchbuilt copy of an actual bridge spanning a gorge on the Spokane Falls and Northern on a route that brought their line into southern British Columbia in the late 1890's. A photo of the bridge can be seen on page 22 of "The Kettle Valley and its Railways" by Hal Riegger.