Terrain Day 2

 

What the hell is in that tub? I hear you ask?

Lee came round on Saturday for another terrain building day, for our now, two Winter periods.

We started on our tracks, you can't really call them roads. I bought 2 plastic mats a while ago from one of the pound shops, cut them into stripes, then added the brown goo all over them. Which is actually flexible builders caulk, with a good squeeze of brown paint in it. We did these first as they're gonna take a while to dry.

We'll paint over them an earth brown colour when dry and add snow and grass.

Lee was the No1 muck spreader....

While I had the hard job, cutting out the second mat.

Next was the trees, these were our favourites, from The Tree Guy

I also bought various Christmas type trees from pound shops and Hobby Craft

Some of the trees had a round block base, which I cut off, we had to drill into the MDF bases, then hot glued them in place.

Just look at the concentration on his face.

A spray can of white paint really give the trees a frosty snowy look.

Before...

And after

Then we ruined my luvvly paintjob i did on the buildings by dusting them with white spray and with some snow.

Lee said I was eating too many Wine Gums, so took a photo as evidence.

Exhibit A

We did the same white spray on the burnt our buildings and again added more snow.

Nice n Icey

Our last job was ice.

How best to make ice on our river sections??

Plexi Glass was the answer,

1. Buy an expensive sheet (hence my face)

2. Smash it up (hence my face)

3. Try to avoid flying Plexi Glass

4. Give it a rub one side on some sandpaper or a sanding block

5. We now have ice

Hopefully enough to fill in all of our rivers?

And that was the end of the day, as we were both very tired chaps!