As promised I've been working on the rails over the last couple of nights. I used a thinner gauge wire for these as I wanted them to be, well, thinner! As before, I brushed blue cleaning tissue with watered down white glue, twisted it on and hung it to dry, giving is a coat of white glue and sky grey paint as an undercoat whilst it was hanging. Once dry, it was a case of rolling it under my fingers on a piece of old MDF and sanding it with 180 grit wet n dry as I went.
As I was sanding it down, I scraped the residue to one side intending to brush it into the bin at the end but it happened quite by chance that I found it would come in quite useful. When painting one of the rails, I accidentally dropped it into the residue and found that it gave a good rough bark effect. I then stuck some loose bits of scatter from the trees on the rails to make nobbles where smaller branches have been cut off. Streaks of various brown, green and yellow oils were used for the wood effect.
The shattered rails were made by just messing about with some tiny shavings of a cocktail stick, superglue and the residue from the sanding process. Again, oils finished the job.
Next stage is to complete enough rails for the fence and put that together then get cracking on the figures, which will be my least favourite part! Not sure how much else I will get done this weekend as I have a set of 1:1 scale drive gates to sort tomorrow - post holes to dig, posts to fix in and gates to hang. My own fault for showing DCOS how proud I was of the 1/72 scale posts I suppose!
