This Model Railway depicts BHP Billiton's long iron ore railway from Port Hedland to Newman.

Saturday 2 June 2012

Plastered paper mountains

The plastering has been completed! But instead of using Woodland Scenics plaster cloth like i did for the rest of the mountains, i decided to save some money by using plaster of paris and paper towel.

I started with paper towels, dipped them in a watery mix of plaster and water, and spread them over the mountain shapes


You can see the road leading to the lookout clearly with the plaster cloth added:


You can see (in the picture below) that i covered the crack between the black fascia and the new unpainted fascia with plaster. This is to fill in the gap, any excess i can sand off later so that when i paint it, it looks just like one big board.


As you can see, there is plenty of excess plaster to clean up:



The next job: cleaning up the plaster


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