1 Another thing I turned to during lockdown was terrain building. This was the first piece, a small hill. Layers of cardboard on a plywood base
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4 Some very very cheap railway trees, based on bits of cardboard with my usual PVA and sand/sawdust
5 Second piece, somewhat bigger, and less square
6 At this point I christened it Fish Eye Hill
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9 A small copse
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11 A pond, with water to be provided by the otherwise fairly useless Gorilla Glue
12 The initial surfacing of Fish Eye Hill was not a success. It took several tries to get a workable result
13 The pond dries
14 Fish Eye Hill is done, finally!
15 Water in the pond
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19 The most ambitious to date - the Bridge - started as two blocks of crap pine
20 The arch drilled out with a Forstner bit on the pillar drill
21 Parapets added, and a test piece for surfacing
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23 Surfaced and drying
24 Set on a piece of foamboard donated by Karl, and roadways added at the ends
25 Some more contours
26 The start of an immense amount of papier mache
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28 Sand onto the PM PVA for the roadway
29 Some gravel for rocks around the river
30 Painting; spraying Zandri onto the riverbed and road, Mechanicus for the bridge
31 Trying to get under the arch painted!
32 Starting to layer sawdust over the landscape
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34 Sawdust sprayed Death Guard
35 The grass soused in Camoshade, then dry-brushed with Green Leather - and the epoxy poured for the river. Three whole tubes! The bridge doused in Nuln Oil.
36 It took nearly a month for the epoxy to dry. Some cheapo trees and a bush added, and some drybrushing on the bridge which could have gone better.
37 Having shamlessly stolen the idea from someone else, a B&B burrow starts to take shape. Thin brass shim and a washer for fittings
38 Sawdust and sand - and some rocks
39 Done. I really want some 28mm milk bottles for the "doorstep" rock, but no luck finding any
