Here are some pictures to prove I have been working on the layout. They aren’t dramatic changes, but change is change.
One of the last areas of Derwin’s Drop to be finished is the mine. I’ve started by layering foam to create the base of a mountain. The rest of the mountain will be painted on the backdrop. I’m not sure who will paint it, or when.
The next step will be to carve the foam mountain to create rock details and then cover it with plaster and maybe a few rock castings. The final bits will be coloring, grass, trees (of course) and other various details that would be found around a mine.
I know once I get into working on this area in earnest it won’t take long to finish. So stay tuned!
This engine shed is a structure I made for our 5th Street Industrial District modules for the UMG. Rather than put the structure in a box between shows I decided I could put it to good use as the engine shed for the service track in Derwin’s Drop.
I decided I wanted the back of the shed to look unkempt and wild so I added several different types of shrubs and bushes. I used lichen, foliage clumps, and polyfiber coated with ground foam to make this area look “wild”. A scattering of junk later will further add to the untidy look.
You get a different perspective of the back of the shed in this photo. The area in the foreground is not intended to look like cut rock. It is where the lift out is placed to cross the great divide of the doorway.
With Chemical Hazards in front of the shed it is difficult to get a natural angle when photographing it. There are too many things in the way. My little photographer will have to climb a tree later to get a bird’s eye view of the scene.
Well, that’s it for this update. I’ve been working in other areas of the layout as well and I’ll have an update on that soon. I never really know what I am going to work on when I first enter the layout room. I intend to do one thing but usually end up working on something else.
’til next time!
Scott