Alright, again it’s been busy. That being said, this update from work done over the winter holidays was only captured on my camera phone, so please pardon the quality ahead of time.
That being said, great progress was made around the gas station and across the tracks from it. The basic earth colored ground foam was applied to both sides. On top of that I’m applying another color of ground foam. I think it is yellow grass, but seeing as I’m in LA as I am typing this, I really can’t check this.
The other big news is that I’ve started to ballast the main! If one looks closely, they might just notice that I didn’t ballast all the way to the end of the module. The reason behind it is that the FreeMo standard requires one to use fine light grey ballast. I’ve not been to big of a fan of this, so in order to keep some level of uniformity, these modules will have the standard on the very end, while having my 50/50 mix of light grey and medium grey for the rest. As the matte medium was setting, I realized that it was fairly hard to actually see any difference of the color on its own. Maybe it will show up more with the non-mixed ballast is applied. Of note, I discovered the hard way that the matte medium that I got needed to be diluted 50/50 with water. I may get to do some more clean-up when I get back...
Staying along to Main Street, I wasn’t really sure what to do with the remaining space beside the lone DPM model. The answer... another DPM kit!
Now I couldn’t decide wether or not to make this int a small park, farmers market, or who knows what. Just for some reason, this kit caught my eye, and the preview picture even shows it next to the existing building! Interestingly, the reverse is not true!
Moving all the way down to the farmhouse area, a bit of progress was made. got the earth ground foam down, some of it applied to hill, and even a few trees made up! I even added lights to the front porch! I did try using Hobb-e-tack for the figures, but will likely change that to some regular glue. The reason behind that is just spending a single night on its side caused some of the figures to shift or even fall off! Not good!
Maybe I’ll be able to get things looking even better next time!
