Yesterday I finally had grandson #1 to help out. It was a wonderful work session with him doing landscaping and me continuing to lay down plastic and rock castings. During the entire time we talked current events, science and music. It's great to have this kind of quality time. He's 12 and is in those "formative" years that mean so much as he matures.
Here's some landscaping...
The first hill is just covered with brown, fine ballast, and the rear is painted with the tan ground color. I was working on the part of the hill in the background. The cut where the highway goes through is just painted base-coat gray. There's a lot more work to do on them before they look as they should.
It's simple and in those open meadows I hear that some of that land is for sale and they'll be buildings on it someday.
Ravine #2's rock sculpting is complete. I now have to work on the river bed. I'm planning on buying the new river rock molds from W-S. I added more rock castings to the track hill and had to overcoat some of the Gypsolite was strong enough. In some spots the paper towels weren't fully involved in plaster and were weak. A nice layer of Scultamold made them much, much stronger.
There's open screen under the tower base that will need to be sealed before the water feature is poured. I have to be careful to not make it much thicker or the tower won't fit under the bridge properly. I'm planning on just filling the screen wire without thickening it.
Tomorrow I'm going to buy the telephone poles dowels, Masonite for the ravine fascia boards, and more Sculptamold.
