I was struggling a little with how I was going to scenic the banks beside the water, when my field trip to the Lost Channel area paid off in spades. It was clear that the Key Valley Railway had to build their roadbed in the dock area with loose rock and talus. So I purchased Woodland Scenics brown talus and proceeded to build up the banks that way. I mixed some ground foam in with the talus to show some weeds poking through.
I put the talus down before poring the water bottom so that the water would appear to be flowing around the talus at the water line.
As per Dave Frary’s scenery book, I poured a flat bottom lake with Polyfilla and then used paints and acrylic gloss medium to make the small inlet of water beside the dock. It worked OK; I didn’t make the Polyfilla thin enough nor did I soak the existing plaster in the water area enough, so the Polyfilla did not flow very well. I had to sand it several times and repour it once to get a relatively smooth surface.
I also managed to get bubbles in the upper coats of the gloss medium by rushing things. Another couple of carefully applied coats fixed this.
There is still a lot of detailed scenery to go, but I wanted to make sure that the structures on the module were designed and installed before going too far. Here’s a picture with the basic scenery in place:
