A small lake
on the right side of the layout a small lake is taking shape. The water is clear resin on top of a coated underground, the plants on the shores are Noch lasercut minis. More small trees and shrubs will be …
Category: general
New buildings
bought two buildings recently, both by Faller. the station in the picture below shows my initial attempts at weathering, the coaling station is still without any paint.
Tunnel entrance
Started working on the tunnel entrance
Finishing a 3D printed lamp post
Painting such small detail is fiddly and I am not quite content with the resulting look yet: Although it is often said that glossiness plays no role in distant viewing I think the paint on these lamp posts should be …
Progress
Added a small storage section for firewood to the farm. This close-up shows there is still some detailing to be done: the corner of the walls doesn’t look too good and obviously we need to do something to the gap …
3D printed models: Stone bridge and Lamp post
Two models I designed in Blender and had printed at Shapeways.com came in yesterday. The lamp post is designed to hold a standard 3mm round LED and therefore has a removable top cover to make it possible to insert the …
The finished well
the well truned out quite ok: note that in both pictures there are still some wet globs of PVA glue visible. When i decide on the final position of the well in the meadow i will add some weeds and …
Apple tree
I created an apple tree from soldered copper wire, glue plus plaster and poly fiber. Now I added some aplpes made from colored mustard seeds:
Weatering an old farm house
The first stage of weathering a simple farmhouse model. “real” vegetation will be adde later.
3D printing an H0 scale stone bridge
Made significant progress. An impression is shown below: