Hedley Junction

[sailormatlac]

I continued to plaster and started to paint the mountain yesterday.

I used the leopard technic to paint, however, results are so-so. Paint seems to dry to fast before I wash it out. I used American folk acrylic (1:8 paint-water for the color, 1:16 paint-water for the wash). For this reason, I had to retouch a lot of areas, drybrush them and weather them again.

I guess the result will be better when ground cover will hide some less realistic areas.

The styrofoam base is roughly shaped with a knife. In some part, I used a hot iron (and a mask) to sculpt rock face.













The finish result with a weathered freight train.







About half the mountain is now plastered and 20% painted. Probably a month worth of work at one evening per week.

Matt