After a long hiatus, (walking, working and generally being without mojo), I’m back at it. I’ve started work on the “little bridge” on the North side of the MPD.
I’ve never been happy with stonework (bought or otherwise), until recently working on my wife’s layout and experimenting with “carving foam” from AK interactive. It’s something akin to florists’ foam (“oasis”), just a bit denser. The stuff is frightfully fragile, and entirely unsuited any area that might be exposed to thumps and bumps. It does however carve and texture superbly.
The subject at hand - shots taken from each side of the bridge:
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I first drew up a plan of the bridge, then outlined the stones on a real wall at Swanage using Corel. This was then lasered an outline of the stones on the carving foam. Here is the first attempt. I discarded them for not resembling the original that well.
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The revised version is as close as I think I might get. Once outlined on the foam, I then set to work with various objects to further carve, distress and outline each stone. This will be the basis of a master I will make a mold from once the rubber arrives from Amazon....
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The (?) west side of the bridge has some more recent brickwork reinforcement - I think that would make for some interesting contrasts in texture.
More to follow in a week or two.
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