OO gauge Christmas 2018 competition - Mr. Porter's entry

Hi everybody, Apologies for the late start, but with holidays and multiple hospital appointments, but I don't know where the time goes.
This will be my first attempt at a diorama and also my first attempt at scenery.
So first of all the basic items.
The base board plan.



Cork track bed, track, and buffer stop fitted and first coats of paint on.
Farm track made out of Wilko all purpose filler and detailed by running scale vehicle wheels through it whilst still soft. Next job to paint surface.
Bank made of strips of scrap foam, contoured ans PVA'd to base. Filler to be applied.

 

Patience my friend.
Farm track painted and rails rusted. Second layer of filler on , now waiting for it to set.



Jim

 

The plaster has finally dried but as soon as I put one coat of paint on it, it sucked it right in. Now on third coat.



I bought a job lot of dry stone walling off Ebay over a year ago ready for my layout, but never got to that stage. So I decided that a length of it would look good. Filled in the joints with plaster and washed with Agrax Earthshade.



I think the next stage will be ballasting.

Jim

 

Ballasting done. Used Gaugemaster GM114 but to be honest turned out darker than I thought. I may mix some lighter coloured material in next time.


Laid multiple layers of static grass. Short in field, and longer on bank where grazing animals would not be able to feed.




Cess on either side of siding next.

Cheers

Jim

 

Thanks Ron & Pete.

Jim

 

There's something you, Dundee, & Andy, will like later on in the build.

Jim

 

Cess laid and some more static grass put down.





That's it for the base for now. All the rest is detailing which will be done when the main items are ready to go on.

Cheers

Jim