But what have been doing is building a mountain as a separation between the scenic part of my layout and the town, to represent a long distant, or at least a separate area.
This involved a newspaper and foam build...
The shape of the mountain (sorry about the blurry mark in the middle, i think my camera accidently got wet and got some water in it):
The cliff side:
Now the extended fascia:
A bit of mountain shaping took place to adjust to the fascia:
I decided that while i was adding mountains, i would also add the road that leads from my town to the radio hill lookout, that looks over Newman. Here is a picture of the view that you can see from the lookout:
Only problem is...i can't find any images whatsoever of the actual tower, so that i can model it, or even have an idea of how big it is. But in the meantime, i built the road leading up to it:
Although from the pictures it appears to be a whole lot of white tape, what i did was:
- measured and cut sections of flat foam at the right width and length.
- cut away part of the pre-existing mountain and fit the pieces in place to see how it looked.
- when happy with the locations and lengths of the pieces, they were glued and pinned in place.
- this is when the masking tape was applied to hold the pieces and cover gaps.
- newspaper was scrunched up and added to make the roads look like they were in natural locations, not just shoved into the side of the mountains.
- more masking tape and...its ready for plaster!
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