September 14th, 2015: The Mountain Consumes All

We have been spending all of our time on dressing the mountain.  The silicone river did not work out so we tore it out (came out mostly in one piece) and carved it deeper, painted it with gypsum and then Woodland Scenics paints and then used tinted acrylic lacquer to fill it in.  We are still not happy with how it looks, it is going to take a bit to overcome the mistakes that were made but it should come out all right in the end.

In the meantime, work continues on the top of the mountain.  Lots of texturing is being placed, even some of the hydrocal rocks we molded two years ago but never used are being placed on top.

We are also placing a modular fence around the layout to prevent the cats (who are, for the time being, banished from the basement) from jumping on top and playing Catzilla.  We have experimented with placing posts with fencing permanently in places we can easily reach around to work on the layout and access trains and then connect them with removable fence sections.  Before we can go any further, we have to finish the area on the peninsula that the trains come out on.  Once that's done, the rest of the fence should go up relatively quickly.