DAS clay rolled out and gone over with the cobbles roller.
Painted grey, wit a start on rubbing in the black.
With the black (acrylic) rubbed it and 'puddles' painted in.
'Puddles' filed with gravelly sort of stuff and some weedt grass added. The shed is about to be planted in.
An overview of the area before getting down to the nitty gritty.
Poirot sticking his nose in as usual.
General suff placed around the shed to make it look busy.
The goods shed building itself is detailed in 'Buildings'. Soddingham's goods traffic has held up very well since Beeching was ignored by the locals. Their refusal to allow roads to be updated makes it much easier for freight to be transferred to rail, if not already on it, at Bogford and distributed along the Piddle valley by the numerous trip workings that constitute the rail service. The train spotters love it as all sorts of wagons turn up, even ones supposed to be extinct.
The yard itself is made from DAS clay spread all over the ply, and the rolled with a cobbles roller obtained from a Warhammer site as at the time that was the only one I could find. The surface was deliberately left a bit uneven to generate puddle holes and general unevenness you get in old cobbled yards. Some gullies were added. The whole thing was then painted grey and blackish paint rubbed all over by finger. Here and there a little colour was added to add variation. The 'puddles' were given some 'gravel' to give the effect of dried muddy oily gunk. 2mm static grass, a sort of green and brown mix from Gaugemaster with the little rocks fished out, was then added by hand, well finger and thumb, round the gullies, holes and edges. Hopefully the effect is an old but still quite well used yard. At the buffers end of the shed is a coal bunker where brake vans coal up. It's also where tail lamps are stored and an lamp oil barrel will appear at some point. The buffers have a lamp as a train can be signalled directly to them.
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