Well it's been a lot longer that I thought between posts, but finally I thought it was time to report some progress!
I am still working in the garage which is not ideal, a bit too cold at
this time of the year, so not as much has been accomplished, well not as
much as would have liked.
The bench work for the first 2 modules of my layout is now largely completed. I say largely, because there are a couple of minor things that need to be done such as fit castors to the legs which I have been putting off!
I am currently working on getting the backdrop right and this has been an ongoing mission. You can see from the picture that I have some basic hill shapes and the little dots are trees, all individually stamped with foam rubber cutouts. I still have a lot more trees to do, and I would love to get some clouds up on there. My intention was for it to just be a basic blue background, but it was not at all satisfactory so I have been teaching myself some rudimentary painting skills. I think it looks ok, though the picture does not do it justice, so I will take a couple of close up images next week and post them.
The other thing which I have completed is the coved corners, after all the world does not have corners! If you are wondering how I achieved it, well it was easy in the end. Some think cardboard, glued with contact adhesive and plastered over to hide the seam as much as possible. I think it came out as best as could be hoped and certainly looks a hundred times better than it was. I found the corners cast weird shadows that just ruined the effect!
By the way, the gap in the middle of the picture is where the modules join, can't be helped!
Over the next few weeks I will get the painting completed, the castors fitted and make some adjustments to the base itself for where there is a slight gradient (which I really should have planned for a lot earlier). Once that's done, I should finally be able to sneak the whole lot into the house....though now I am thinking about building the 3rd module since I am on a roll!
