With the weather so cold, we decided to stay in today, so I got some more layout time. With it I finished all the city transition plastering and all the grade crossing except the station side of the RR Station road. I continued doing all this because the inter-ravine area plaster still wasn't dry enough to apply the finish coat, paint and ground cover.
I layered all the cardboard around all the areas requiring plaster.
I also filled the trenches next to the road going through the rock cut with additional cardboard. It made it very easy to apply plaster there since it didn't take much and none of it spilled through to the floor.
These transitions consumed another bag and half of Sculptamold. If I hadn't built up the cardboard first it would have consumed a lot more.
Here's the front crossing. This will be the most visible and obvious on the railroad so I'm going to spend more time making it very neat.
Lastly, here's the rock cut area. None of this stuff looks very convincing in the raw white plaster, but as soon as ground cover is added... POW! It's looks like real terrain.
The edge facing you in this above pic will be cleaned up and then painted the Jungle Green that I'm using for all the fascia boards. This way the road's end will blend with the edge of the layout. Model Railroading... civil engineering, landscape architecture, electronics, computers, model building, design, project management, painting, and on and on... what a hobby!
