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Landscaping
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Outwith
the village almost all of the landscaped
areas are in rough ground. As a base for
this, bleached carpet felt was bonded to
the surfaces, torn off when dry then wire
brushed and trimmed. Ground cover was
created using "Woodland
Scenics" products fixed with 3M
displaymount spray adhesive. On scree
areas granite dust and basalt dust sand
from the River Tilt were used. River beds
were formed using shingle from the Tilt
sieved into various sizes and then
covered with multiple layers of polyester
casting resin. On the high ground, the
winter scene was created using
"snow" from the Carr's range of modeling products. |
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Being
Highland Perthshire, the one scenic item
required in abundance was trees and with
the scale of planting required, the wire
frame and foliage matting approach was
not an option. After much
experimentation, we discovered that using
teased out polypropylene rope twisted
between wire sack ties, bottlebrush
fashion, produced tree shapes that held
their form well. For coniferous shapes,
the strands were given a tapering cut
before brushing out. The
"trees" were then sprayed
thoroughly with dark brown aerosol
automotive paint and drenched with
"Woodland Scenics Coarse Turf"
whilst the paint was still wet. Some four
hundred trees were made in this way and
the autumn tints were applied using red,
yellow and orange aerosol paint. |
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Another
item required in quantity was stob and
wire track side fencing This was made by
stringing 5amp fusewire in sets of four
rows, 3mm apart and 10mm between sets on
panel pins set into the edge of a 4' x 2'
piece of blockboard. The wires were then
sprayed with grey aerosol primer. A piece
of card slightly short of the blockboard
length with the post positions marked at
24mm centres was placed under the wires.
Fence posts from pre-painted 0.6 square
"Slaters Micro Strip" were then
placed on the post centre marks and the
wires glued to them with drops of
superglue.
Lengths of fencing were then removed as
required by cutting each post 1mm above
the top wire, which left a 9mm tail on
the post for fixing. Fence post tops were
then painted after fixing. |
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