After taking a hiatus for the holidays, it’s time to get back in the garage. I had already did a little work on the foam cliff face to add some variation to it so it wasn’t so uniform.  This morning I started to rebuild the lattice work for the sub structure.  Just a little more is left before it gets a masking tape overlay.

More than likely I’m going to with one of these two molds (#1  #2) from Bragdon to mold the cliff face itself.

Shaun Scenery

Playing around with some foam to try some new formations on the hill.  The foam would eventually be covered with scultamold (where i’ll try my hand at cliff making) or something like rubber rock molds.

Shaun Scenery

This morning I started work on my mountain makeover using some good ideas from the modeler community.

The first thing on the list is to get rid of the cone shape top. I pulled off the masking tape, cut and removed the cardboard strip webbing, and cut down the foam supports.

The 2nd thing was it needed to be more vertical along the tracks, more like a cut was made by the railroad to put in the tracks.  So I removed the tape and webbing from the bottom portion of the mountain as well.

Here’s what it used to look like:

The cardboard webbing is still pretty intact so I placed it on top the hill as I think already it’s beginning to look to better with the shortened, rounded off top:

Shaun General

Shaun General