![]() ![]() He wrote, "I should have signed off in detail from all the T horeau was a dissenter and a dropout, perhaps Three photos of the finished project are attached. I matched tall dry grass to the pond reeds as indicated on the layout at well. With the buildings in place, I added bushes where indicated and selectively added green ground cover, in particular, to cover a narrow rectangle of roof on the layout that the building didn't cover. Gluing a stack of those together gave me a wood pile for the shed. I cut broom straw to the right length and colored the surface with a brown Sharpie. I'd done the Maple Sugar Shack a while back and thought up an improvement I tried here. ![]() I used Sharpies to color the inside to look somewhat like the outside. I particularly liked the way the fireplace fit in to add external dimension and a hearth with a roaring fire inside. I first mounted the layout on a piece of matt board. I've been working with railroad scenery materials and tried a few here. The furniture was difficult but within the cabin, the defects on the bottom of the chairs are much harder to see. I took Thoreau's Cabin Walden Pond and scaled it to fit on the layout unscaled. I'd like to share one I put together a couple of months back. I also branched out into a number of sites for my models but Fiddlers Green remains my main one. I've greatly enjoyed building them for the last three years. ![]() Thank you for your efforts in paper modeling. ![]()
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