I do like it when a plan comes together.
This is what all the mess in the dirty stuff workshop has been about. The two boards that are currently the Brymston Railroad are joined together and the mountain back scene is all mounted and in place and, at least from this angle, you can’t see the join.
The join is a bit more obvious when looking from this angle but I have a plan – maybe. It all looks a lot better just from the reduction in the amount of bright white primer there is on show.
The backscenes are adhesive backed vinyl and, were I doing it again, I’m not sure I’d get the adhesive backed ones again. The instant tack and a desire to stick to anything and everything barring where you want it too made getting them smooth difficult but then it wouldn’t stick at the edges.
I think a PVA giving more adjustment time would be better. I’ve had to glue the edges with a vinyl glue and tape them with low tack tape and once that’s hard I plan several layers of acrylic varnish to build up a hard edge.
Shortly the long board will go back upstairs to the model room whilst the corner board will get more foam added to build up the mountains, the tunnel mouth added and the track ballasted keeping the messy stuff downstairs. I do need to get myself a freehand hot knife foam cutter.
The cunning plan for the join is a half relief tree with its first branches high enough to let a train past and with its top somewhere in the clouds but that will be a late addition as I don’t fancy tree making.
As the layout develops the scenery and buildings will slowly hide the mountain backscene so its glimpsed through the structures, trains and trees and will merge, well, into the background.
The corner board and the fiddle board need a bit of engineering to mate them as they weren’t intended for each other. The fiddle board may just be temporary as its been repurposed from another stalled project.
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