The far side of the track has various elevations and constructing scenery around the different levels was always going to be complicated. So I cheated with a roll of grass which I just used to cover the gaps:
It's been like this for a couple of years although I did replace some of the grass paper when I built the big screen, but the rock wall wasn't very convincing.
So my Bank Holiday project was to build some proper rock walls using some pieces of insulation foam I liberated from a neighbour's skip over a year ago (I knew it would come in handy eventually...).
It's a nice material to work with, much easier than the chicken wire and plaster method I used for other parts of the track. I used a normal saw to roughly cut the pieces and then shaped and added detail with a dremel (rotary hand-tool). It does make one hell of a mess though. And I lost count of the trips between the garage and the loft today.
But the end result is a significant improvement. This is the first piece I did between the two hairpins:
And then I got carried away and ripped out the paper mache rocks I'd created behind the big screen, and shaped pieces for the whole stretch. As the rock wall acts as a natural barrier, I was able to remove a lot of the armco barriers.
Next job is to paint it and to re-grass & re-plant around the big screen.
It's been like this for a couple of years although I did replace some of the grass paper when I built the big screen, but the rock wall wasn't very convincing.
So my Bank Holiday project was to build some proper rock walls using some pieces of insulation foam I liberated from a neighbour's skip over a year ago (I knew it would come in handy eventually...).
It's a nice material to work with, much easier than the chicken wire and plaster method I used for other parts of the track. I used a normal saw to roughly cut the pieces and then shaped and added detail with a dremel (rotary hand-tool). It does make one hell of a mess though. And I lost count of the trips between the garage and the loft today.
But the end result is a significant improvement. This is the first piece I did between the two hairpins:
And then I got carried away and ripped out the paper mache rocks I'd created behind the big screen, and shaped pieces for the whole stretch. As the rock wall acts as a natural barrier, I was able to remove a lot of the armco barriers.
Next job is to paint it and to re-grass & re-plant around the big screen.
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