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The New Year’s Festival has Already Begun Up from the inky depths of the basement comes Shōgatsu, my family’s Christmas New Year’s layout! In the intervening months, we’ve collected a couple of TomyTec buildings. I’ve also managed to assemble and decal the various little festival stalls we bought last year. Finally, we’ve added [...] The mountains, complete I’m back, more or less! I hope all had a great winter holiday. As you can see, plastering is now 100% complete. A few final comments on the plastering process: Some things I have learned. Bare plaster soaks up acrylic paint, and mixes with it. Painting plaster mountains requires that, [...] Again, progress. What can I say? Sorry I didn’t get this up yesterday: We accomplished all this in a Sunday afternoon. Next weekend we hope to finish with the plaster cloth, and to begin detailing in earnest.
I also got in a Tomix Cleaning Car this weekend. The short version is that [...] I’ve only put a little foliage down on part of the layout, but there’s just enough to begin experimenting with model train photography. Here we see EF66-28 emerge from a tunnel on the…well, I guess I have to make up a name for this line, don’t [...] Perhaps I’m getting a bit ahead of myself here, but this is about where things stand. We’ve got mountains (sort of), and tunnel portals (mostly), and foliage (but just around this one tunnel portal). Things are looking good! The portal is a Greenmax, model no. 14-2, lightly weathered with India ink. The foliage [...] |
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