05-17-2010, 10:39 PM
Haven't done any work on my own layout these last few days - have been spending my modeling time on coaching my oldest kid, who is 12 years old (or will be in two weeks) and who wanted to learn how to build landscapes.
Here is my oldest son starting out on painting a retaining wall on Saturday morning:
![[Image: CIMG0250.jpg]](http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp124/steinjr_1965/warehouse/CIMG0250.jpg)
Saturday afternoon. And yeah - he (like his younger brother and myself) got a much needed haircut on Saturday, in preparation for the Constitution Day parade on Monday May 17th :-)
![[Image: CIMG0264.jpg]](http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp124/steinjr_1965/warehouse/CIMG0264.jpg)
Wall didn't turn out half bad for a first try for a 12 year old - just some blue foam, using a knife to carve a couple of lines along the wall, and then some short lines to make "brick pattern" (or rather stone block pattern) in the vertical direction, followed by some gray paint. Tip we saw in an article by Rick Wade in Model Railroad Hobbyist May/June 2010.
Sunday morning - some paint, some dirt, some grass, some trees and bushes (with still wet glue at the time I took the picture) - still quite a bit to do, but it is starting to look more like a diorama:
![[Image: CIMG0266.jpg]](http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp124/steinjr_1965/warehouse/CIMG0266.jpg)
Best part is that the kid has done most of the work - with me first demonstrating, and then he doing at least 75% (or more) of the work. Only part I have done alone is painting the building - he doesn't yet have the patience for dry brushing a building.
Didn't have time to do anything more this long weekend - the rest of Sunday and all day Monday was spent on the Constitution day festivities (in remembrance of the signing of our constitution at Eidsvold on May 17th 1814).
Smile,
Stein
Here is my oldest son starting out on painting a retaining wall on Saturday morning:
Saturday afternoon. And yeah - he (like his younger brother and myself) got a much needed haircut on Saturday, in preparation for the Constitution Day parade on Monday May 17th :-)
Wall didn't turn out half bad for a first try for a 12 year old - just some blue foam, using a knife to carve a couple of lines along the wall, and then some short lines to make "brick pattern" (or rather stone block pattern) in the vertical direction, followed by some gray paint. Tip we saw in an article by Rick Wade in Model Railroad Hobbyist May/June 2010.
Sunday morning - some paint, some dirt, some grass, some trees and bushes (with still wet glue at the time I took the picture) - still quite a bit to do, but it is starting to look more like a diorama:
Best part is that the kid has done most of the work - with me first demonstrating, and then he doing at least 75% (or more) of the work. Only part I have done alone is painting the building - he doesn't yet have the patience for dry brushing a building.
Didn't have time to do anything more this long weekend - the rest of Sunday and all day Monday was spent on the Constitution day festivities (in remembrance of the signing of our constitution at Eidsvold on May 17th 1814).
Smile,
Stein