With the river scene taking shape quickly and only requiring a few additional coats of gloss varnish and white water, my attention is now focussed on Clermont itself. Over the last few weeks, I've been working on the long road winding around the yard. Generally, it would be a quick project, but this time, it's more complex. The longest part is about 8 feet long and can't be put on the workbench.
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| River with a coat of satin varnish... still a lot to do. |
As usual, I'm working with illustration board, spray paints (various shades of primers) and acrylic paints. Curbs have been installed in some places and yellow lines are now painted everywhere. True to myself, road markings were painted with a sponge and scraped with a blade to make them fade.
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| On left: pristine line, On right: scraped line |
In the spring time, lines on Quebec's roads are almost all gone due to salt, abrasive and snow plow continuously scraping them.
Too often, I see beautiful layouts with garish yellow lines that seems completely out of place...
In the next weeks, I'll be adding more curbs, draw cracks in the pavement and add additional details and weathering. However, even if unfinished, the roads now gives us a better idea of the future scene... which I will discuss in a future post. And we had to revise our plans again. A few months ago, we thought about simply adding a barn and a house and call it a day. But the large intersection and retaining walls are too much "urban" to feel right, so we are back to a village scene.
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