This will be my first 'diorama' base since way back in the last century--1988! Eventually I want to create a series of bases I can use for RFI images on the Forum with different basic looks: snow, greenish grass, desert sand, etc...nothing too crazy yet. So I am starting small. This will be a simple dry dirt road with some grass on the side, etc...you get it, right?
In the old days we use Plaster of Paris or that stuff for train sets that was mostly vermiculite. You had to put down a mesh screen first so it would stick. I am hoping this acrylic mix will work without the mesh. 🤞
I mixed a few spoonfuls with a very small amount of tap water and now I have this. I will let it set up a bit and sculpt the road running through it, then when it is dry I am hoping to be able to sand it some and so forth.
It looks like MacArthur's Park, i.e. someone left the cake out in the rain...
Wish me luck!
--John