7mm Layouts and Dioramas by Stephen Fay, including Pontycwm, Newton Mills and St Stephens Bank

Compton castle

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Pre spray the whole track with mud brown priori to ballast



JLTRT track dirt down the centre plus another waft of mud brown
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Mask
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Railmatch sleeper grime over the top and Railmatch track dirt from a low angle hitting the rail sides
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Remove tape
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Polish rail heads. You can vary it depending on how dirty you want your track or skip stages.
 
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Compton castle

Western Thunderer
Scenic work progressing at Holcombe Cove
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The Pine will be joined by two more
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Rock fall shelter painted and weathered, just the tunnel opening to get laser cut.
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Mike Whatton has been commissioned to make another of his wind swept trees, It will live on the grassy verge to the left of the tunnel opening. B8853DCE-99F4-444B-A850-BB51281F9813.jpeg
The tunnel mouth will be an inch shorter than that on Coryton Cliffs.
 

Tim Watson

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Looking impressive, will you be applying some dark green washes for mosses and lichens on the rocks / civil engineering?

Tim
 

Compton castle

Western Thunderer
42C51C84-247A-44F6-AFBD-4BA1D9B89CC5.jpeg 02E493A2-F61A-47BC-8903-078E7BB993EA.jpeg F7ADA821-4A75-4726-970A-76D3D9BDC468.jpeg C8CF2D02-0BA3-42C2-BA5D-D181354F5607.jpeg I had a few days in Devon to get inspired!
Back home now and the slaters stone walking has been glued in place.
First ferns have sprouted up.
 
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