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It looks similar but an awful lot cheaper - let us know how it pans out? I used a mixture of modelling paste and an old tube of polyfilla that Dearly Beloved had left where I could find it and swipe it, and that worked well for texture on a mountain side.

I've really enjoyed your thread - your buildings are amazing

So the hairspray helps fix loose flock?

This is what actual Neolithic roads / walkways looked like - surprisingly, a lot survived because although they were made of wood, they sank in peat bogs and were preserved: Ours isn't a bad model version, I think. The mud around the marsh needs some work, and another layer of "water", but not too bad so far. Any criticisms or hints most welcome - I'm not precious, and would benefit from it.

Looks very good. How many bases are you intending to make in total? What is the hairspray for? "What more could a boy want?" OO gauge sheep. That was the response from my 8 yr old boy. He's developed a passionate desire for mini sheep.

Those colours are fabulous

I used a mixture of airdry clay, plaster, modelling paste and polyfilla (the last was lying around, I'm sure my other half didn't need it....) to create our mountain textures recently, and was pleased with the results. I did look at pots of "stone texture" and thought it would cost a small fortune for no real advantage.

That's really good. Is the AK goop just texture so you don't have an entirely flat board? I don't want to sound mean* but it might be similar and cheaper to use modelling past, airdry clay or polyfilla instead? * I am mean. I can't help but feel a lot of of the small pots of hobby texture etc are very expensive

Rock face at the top - it's shiny because everything's damp and flash,too

A fair bit of progress on the scenery and terrain. We've painted our rocks, added a cave backdrop, and created the mountain river. Added some rocks around the river bed. We've filled the lake - everything is drying VERY slowly as it's cool and damp. We've built the banks and ditches. We've designed a marsh, and a neolithic wood walkway to get over the Marsh. Banks and ditches Rockface textured and plaster rocks added Marsh and walkway - not yet finished Upland river half done and drying

Planning the base (this was over a week or so, things needed to dry first). The base is an A1 sheet of foam core board. A spare sheet was cut up for the side and back. We painted the whole thing with PVA glue, on both sides to avoid warping. Then a couple of layers of gesso. The back and side pieces were spray-painted with grey paint as a backdrop. We then took our A1 paper plan, and drew the main features on in black pen. The side & back were attached with a hot glue gun. The backdrop hill / mountain / river is light-weight foam (the packaging from two electric toothbrushes.... and newspaper held with masking tape. The river coming down from the hill was cut in to the polystyrene chunks before gluing. Narrow sheets of foam around the edge of the lake and lowland river. The lakebed and river downstream have been textured with modelling paste. The hills and upland river have been coated with plaster cloth strips, and left to dry. Once dried, modelling paste with smooth out the surface and the holes in the plaster cloth.

Not for a museum, no, just for fun.

Does that work? https://i.ibb.co/JRFf979/DSC-0008.jpg https://ibb.co/KjzMJqJ https://i.ibb.co/3Y4LD5B/DSC-0001.jpg https://ibb.co/TqYFVDm

We are making a stone age (Neolithic) village diorama - in OO scale, because I have a nice ruler and it'll end up the approximate physical size we want. Our diorama will include a river, the side of a lake, a palisade-bank-ditch village, and a mixture of stone and wood houses. Plus gardens, paths and pasture. Grand plans, obviously - but we have to start somewhere. We've started with some stone houses roughly based on those at Skara Brae, in the Orkneys. We made walls and posts out of fimo, scribed in the dry stone outlines, and baked them. We then made latex moulds, and used plaster to cast lots of walls and pillars. Some are now painted, and ready to be assembled. Top of the photo is a plaster wooden bench - just the top so far. Also made from fimo, latex mould, and cast in resin plaster.