Plastic screen retaining wall and abutment.
Not literally, of course. In addition to planting hundreds of trees (and yet, the mountains are still rather bare!) I’ve been constructing retaining walls and abutments. The process is really simple. I find an area of the layout that needs a retaining wall; I’ve left these areas bare to make them easier to find later. I measure a bit of 0.5mm styrene sheet to fit, and using some PVA (white) glue. I affix plastic window screen to simulate the kind of stones often used to construct retaining walls; I then trim the screen to fit once the glue has dried. The piece I’m working on now combines a retaining wall with a bridge abutment; The abutment is unadorned plastic.
The finished product.
Nice seing you back in construction and I can spot you made an intersting used of some lego tiles.
The Legos are great for ensuring that my structures are square!
Shit! That’s clever! I allways knew legos had some untapped potential.
Great result! This is a cool method to give plain old plastic an authentic looking texture! And I agree…clever use of the Lego’s!
I actually spent a great deal of time this summer hunting garage sales for a cheap bucket of Lego bricks specifically for this purpose. Aside from the fact that whatever plastic they are made of melts in the presence of plastic cement—which is a real downer, by the way—they are totally awesome for squaring structures. Highly recommended, but because of the glue issue, only with bricks you don’t care about destroying!