Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Going Bush VII

Well, either I'm on a roll and the creative juices are unblocked, or the drive on a deadline (which is 25 days away chaps) but the upshot is more modeling tonight (the most in quite a while).

After painting everything last night, it was time to spread the white filler again. Now, this stuff is not cheap ($20 a litre) but once you get past that, its actually quite good to use. There's not the mess of plaster either (which in this case has been replaced by the expanded poly crap). So after starting off smearing it on with the good old screwdriver, I got out a paintbrush to get some finer detail. This tidies things up till the filler sets some more. While waiting for this I added some back scene formers from wood veneer that I had acquired in a trade for PCB sleepers. These were cut to the correct height to give a module height of 40cm (chosen to fit into the car when stacked face to face) and then attached with gorilla glue and pins. I'll add a smoother surface once I have more of the shrubbery in.


 I've added the tunnel at the back which needs a bit more work. however its sort of looking the way I had envisaged. If only I still had some moss from the old days to make trees.
And here's what it looks like from a lower angle.

(As always, once I get started there is the complete mind blank on taking pictures until the end of the evening.)

8 comments:

Andrew Hamblyn said...

To pass this point you must first bring me a shrubbery.....

Pete said...

There is nothing in the desert, and no man needs nothing!

Looking mighty good if I don't mind saying so :)

Grant M said...

Watching with interest in preping to build my own miniture Kerosine creek Thou my big main street road scene is taking a big chunk out of my time.
Grant

Michael Adams said...

Looking good :) What is the name of the white filler stuff?

Cabbage said...

White stuff

I get it from Mitre 10 Mega
It is called Red Devil filler
It is easy to find on the shelf at Mega just pick up each of the pre mix fillers and its the one that feels like its empty
Woodland Scenics make a similar stuff called foam putty
I think it is the same stuff but the red devil is 1/2 the price
I did find it on the web and it is available in 1 gallon pots but maybe only from the US

Motorised Dandruff said...

I could have brought 4L for $60 but it seemed a bit excesive at the time.

Cabbage said...

Have to come to PN and go shopping at your Mega if they have the 4L pots
Cheaper again

Amateur Fettler said...

I think I can sense another modellers day out coming up.....