The end is almost in sight...
Here are the three boards together - now grassed and furzed...
Apologies to Silent Invader and other cereal conspirators - but I wimped out on the cornfield.
It's trampled straw instead...
The third field will be a small orchard.
A view along the as yet still un-wet river...
I've also started applying a few small lichen bushes and some strategically positioned grass tufts...
I think they add to it. The only slight problem is that I could spend another couple of days just gluing on individual tufts like this!
The guard barricade on the road into the settlement. I do like that tuft
Here's a birds eye view of the whole thing...
The boards aren't quite aligned against the wall, but you get the lie of the land...
Not too far off the original plan...
... although it has been embellished a bit as I've gone along
I've now moved onto trees...
I have 40 Woodland Scenics decidious trees - 2" - 5" - value pack, 'ready to use'...
Hmmm - in quite which universe these would be ready to use, I'm not sure.
You'd have to be a pretty undiscerning railway modeller to use these straight from the box, with their shiny plastic trunks and motheaten foliage.
Also, because the basic armature is two-dimensional, they look flat as a pancake until you bend them around.
So - quite a lot of bending later, plus gluing on a lot of extra foliage to plug the gaps, plus some remedial drybrushing of the trunks - I now have a small forest ready to go.
With a 28mm figure, these trees ought to appear approximately 3m - 6m high. I'll probably get a few taller ones as well...
I buzzed off the feeble plastic nub moulded on the bottom of each tree, drilled out each trunk, and super-glued a steel spike in place - thus:
This inserts straight into the foam terrain, wherever you like where there's a bit of ground cover to conceal the base. Like this:
And can be repositioned as and when necessary, and with no holes visible to the nekkid eye.
Tonight, I made the first pour of 'Realistic Water' - we'll see what it looks like after 24 hours.
I'm expecting it to need 2 or 3 applications to get the desired finish.
Then it's add trees and buildings, and job done
The next pictures will be of the finished project. Probably in a week or so...