Plastering the Base Board - Part 1

We have now plastered the landscape around Cliddesden station. Before we started we masked of the track and then using household wall plaster we applied a thin layer over the polystyrene. We found when we originally started applying it the plaster was drying too quickly, we soon had to water it down, so that we had longer time to cover, mould and smooth the landscape - this however had further complications while it was drying, more on that in part 2.

Here is a picture of the layout with it's new skin (while it was drying):

Plastering landscape

The plaster dramatically changed the look of the landscape, we could start to visualise how it might have been back in 1911.

Ed