It's been a long time, well almost four weeks.
It's been very slow moving as real life took over, you know,
spring cleaning, outside work, etc etc. I still managed to do a bit of work here and there on the
layout, such as wiring and ballasting, but I did realize a huge mistake.... ok
not so huge, but pain staking work.
When I designed my layout, I had measured a
30" reach from both side of the layout making it 60" wide total and I
was ok with it. But now I realize that it's NOT ok. I need to do some cliff,
mountain work and will have a hard time reaching it because on one side of the
layout, I have two different levels with a total height of 10" as you can
see from the pictures.
So, I will be doing the mountains away from the layout and
then inserting them when done (painting included).
I've build the frame work on the layout and then brought
them in my workshop. I then added plaster cloth to solidify them in one piece
and now I'm working on making little rock formation to be installed on my major
piece.
The picture you see in the background is the look I'm going
for