I love those photos, Marty. Header material for sure.
Good to see a glimpse of the layout in the video. Thank heaven for nice sisters, eh?

Mike

Nice video Marty! Is that you talking? Funny, it doesn't sound like your typing!  :shock: :shock: :shock:

Wayne  

Finally, despite a self imposed modelling ban, or at least a partial modelling ban, work has recommenced on Newcastle Emlyn.

Making the Greenhills module for the show and travelling to the show itself necessarily put work on the home layout on the backburner for a while….

… but 5 months… sheesh :roll:

OK, so… the October tree project started it… thanks Alan :thumbs… I wanted to join in and make some more trees but once made they can't be planted until the understory is complete.

… and considering the current understory is just plain brown earth there is a little way to go.

At the risk of boring anyone that has read Marty's N- gauge trees project here's a repeat…

This hill needs some vegetation.





… and this is the real thing… and I mean the real thing, I was standing on the track bed of the disused Newcastle Emlyn Branch :thumbs




It's a bit overgrown, just a bit , but a good representation of the surrounding woodland none-the-less.



… and around the tunnel mouth.






First the really steep parts of the hill, actually the other side of the hill shown above, where the rock faces were supposed to be, were painted.
Acrylics, mostly Jo Sonja's but other brands from here and there, black, linen, rose, duck blue, an orangy-yellow and white, mixed randomly on a pallet and slapped in a mostly random fashion over the brown.
Mostly random as some attempt was made to highlight the shadows with darker shades and accentuate the exposed areas with lighter shades.
Once dry the sticky out bits where highlighted with dry brushed white, yellow and linen.
The rocks are still a bit to shiney to my mind and need a dusting of pastel powders to tone them down a bit.z

The base layer of vegetation is woodland scenics and Heki scatter dusted over a painted on mix of 50/50 water/PVA.

Ballast is washed local sand, nudged into place with a paintbrush, drizzled with Isopropyl Alcohol and then bonded with drops of 50/50 water/pva mix.

The tree is one from a previous project, dumped on for effect.





A work in progress…

All looks darned good to me!

Thanks Fidge, having fun anyway :thumbs

Looking great, Marty.  :thumbs   The vegetation really makes a difference.

Gee that looks good!! :thumbs

Mike

It does doesn't it Max, it's been brown for way too long, more to come.

You must be very pleased with that, Marty.

Very happy so far Peter, definitely the railway in the landscape I was looking for.

[user=19]Marty[/user] wrote:

Very happy so far Peter, definitely the railway in the landscape I was looking for.

And what a landscape this is going to be!
This is superb modelling Marty, I keep looking at your progress and it's going to be stunning when it's finished.
The rocks and mountains look great. Just like the real thing!
Talk soon.

Thanks Frank,

The DIY floor planks arrived today, while I'm looking forward to finally getting into laying them progress may slow on the layout again!!!

But I keep dreaming.

isn`t that the way of this hobby ,? you are on a roll going great ,then up pop the mundane jobs that stop all.
never mind mate soon be back to the fun jobs again..

:thumbs:lol::cool:

Hello Marty,

                   Excellent land-scaping, mate. Those rock-surfaces look so natural and the vegetation is such a nice contrast. You should be very pleased with the results you've achieved :pathead,

                                                                                          Kind Regards,

                                                                                     Michael Thornberry.

That is really looking good Marty, coming on a treat :thumbs

No how did i miss this thread :hmm. Anyhw it is starting to look good mate, shame the video link aint there any more.  Love the scenery your starting, better than brown.

Now you must understand, jobs around the house come's 2nd and the layout is a deffo 1st mate. I am sure having met your lovely wife she will understand, just tell her mate. I would but i shall not be seeing her now, :thumbs, so its up to you. Go on tell her, i stand behind you for support :pathead.

Phill

 

Whahaayyy!!! Love the greenery,Marty!! I can see a bigger version of your Pentrecourt Halt taking shape! Don't rush,take your time and enjoy it…we'll all just sit back and savour it as the scenics progress!
   Lovely Jubbly!!!

:doublethumb
Cheers,John.B.:thumbs

That looks brilliant Marty. :thumbs

When I saw that frist shot of everything brown, I thought that looked very good and spent some time studying the land forms.  Now, after your "random" painting and added greenery, it looks absolutely like the real thing. :thumbs:thumbs  How can highly skilled people achieve such results by always doing things "randomly" or "throwing a bit of this or that at it" :twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted:

Thanks Peter,

Spending time detailing the Pentrecourt Halt diorama gave me a much better understanding of the concepts of building up the vegetation from the ground up… and a confidence that I was able to produce something that pleased me.

I'm deliberately telling myself not to detail the lower levels of vegetation on this section of the hillside as there are still several layers (undergrowth and trees) to go on yet which will hide a lot of the ground as it is now.

Thus a broadbrush approach. Boldly… where no man has gone before

May the Force be With You.    NANU  NANU   :chicken