12/15/13 Video!!!

Updated Photos!!!!

The cliffs are made from carved pink insulation foam, covered with gypsum and painted. I used a hot knife to carve the foam. The retaining wall is Woodland Scenics Concrete paint put directly onto foam. The vertical grooves in the retaining wall were made with pencil. My dad made all of the trees using premade trunks and branches and slowly adding the texturing over a period of several days. The ground cover is Fusion Fiber with Woodland Scenics ground texturing applied.

Retaining wall is made of 1/4" thick piece of foam that I carved grooves into with a pen and then painted, then my dad added the greenery. The cliffs are made from carved pink foam insulation and covered with gypsum and painted.

Built this graveyard over the course of the last week. My dad did all of the ground cover this week.

Houses from over a hill in the foreground.

Houses from over Jasper Rock.

This portal was made with 1/4" foam with each rock outline carved with a very sharp pencil and then painted...each rock in the portal is painted individually. We still have a lot of work to do in this area. 

Getting back to the track

Although I still can not put in the four to six hours a day I was doing, it's back to work.  During the last four weeks I have made 58 trees, including four new apricot trees for the orchard (to be planted in the spring).  Also completed: the west side retaining wall and cliffs now have vegetation and the tracks both above and below this area are ballasted with scenery and trees.

This week, Mark and I put in the cemetery and I am almost finished landscaping it, and the nearby pond.  The tombstones are tiny, but by adding dirt to highlight each, they can be seen.

Next week we'll add another batch of fusion fiber to smooth out the hills.  I find that doing the scenery while the fusion fiber is initially moist works far better than coming back afterwards.  It takes more time, but the results are worth it.