......Rocks

 ROCKS

Creating rock faces

The Penny Howe Light Railway traverses a rocky ridge at Raven Hill near to the quarry that the railway originally served.  So in the last few days we have created the rock formations along the ridge.  Made of a mix of (greatest first) lightweight filler, sawdust, p.v.a, arcylic paint and water, the base colour, seen at bottom of the picture above, appeared totally wrong due to some unusually weak black paint, so we blackened all the crevices before adding various greys and browns.

This is an earlier photo at the end of the board showing polystyrene blocks, and my wife's trees on the end board. 

The completed area with the stream/waterfall being attended-to.

We are now adding coats of varnish to the stream, before adding all the greenery.

The layout will be called "Raven Hill" reflecting the prologue and history of the line, which I shall write about later.