How high are the hills? How deep the cuts? Last week I got the hot glue gun going, cut a lot of cardboard strips and spent 5 hours putting it all together along the 10 foot side of the layout.
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| Tunnels need BIG hills to look real. | | | | |
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| Now that is a HILL! |
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| And this is a deep cut revealing Marvins head. |
After a week to think about it, the skinny cross section of the hill needed to be dealt with by lowering the height of the front face and the depth of the cut. Out came the scissors and several inches removed from the hill. Here are the results to compare.
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| The hill is still big enough to look real. |
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| The cut looks better, even without Marvins head. And the branch has a nice cut also. I like cuts! |
While I was working on the long side of the layout, Marvin was working on our creek, a small but wonderful view site.
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| Marvin has turned my quiet, clean, mountain stream into a littered backwater he calls "Too Tired Creek" in reference to the two old tires half way up and my often expressed condition. | | | | | | |
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Tuesday I will be laying out a lot of plaster cloth to give a basic ground level for all the cardboard strips. I will also be covering the front edge to the lower track. This will be finished with a fascia board when scenery is finished.
Until Tuesday,
Armchair
It's really coming together - the revamped hill does look better, and the little stream is coming along nicely!
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