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Project 26 - Hewish Gates #5

As I laid down the vegetation it occurred to me that there are three scenes in this 52 cm x 37cm diorama, those being the level crossing, the signal box and the railway cottages. I assume the cottages were for two signalman who operated the box in shifts.

The double cottage is a Wills kit, The fence panels have been in my possession for possibly six decades. No idea of the brand.

The vegetation is a real hotchpotch of materials. Obviously, static grass layered for density and height with tufts being formed by first laying down anything that has a little bulk and then grassing over it.

The hedge next to the cottage is two layers of green kitchen scourer pad covered in woodland scenics matting. Small shrubs are a strange fungus like growth cut from a dead branch and covered in minced dead autumn leaves and then spray painted green.

The larger shrub along the palisade fence line is dried moss from the garden centre sprinkled with the autumn leaves and spray painted.

The small tree is seafoam grown by myself and treated similarly.

Boundary fence in front is my own 3D printed posts with tinsel wire threaded through.

Note that anti-trespass sawtooth panels across the tracks next to a level crossing were not deployed at this location in the 1950-60s, judging from photographs.

To Part 1.

 

Project 26 - Hewish Gates #4

I have reprinted the backscene that was created for the original layout (see Part 1). It is a photo of the real location printed over three sheets of A4. We can see from the hedging on the right how well the foreground merges with the background. The grassy bank on the left is waiting completion.

The downside is the join between sheets clearly visible and for some reason the shade of blue sky differs slightly between sheets. The only way to resolve all this is to have it professionally printed on one sheet.

To Part 5.

To Part 1.