Excellent job Wizz

Love the grass, really nice.

Great Job Wizz,
Been missing you on here, but this more than makes up for your absence.
Cheers,
Bigkev

After a long day battling the wind in the garden, I settled down to play with the terrain a little more last night and finished far later than I should have done as it was great fun, so it's rocket coffee all round today to keep me awake at work. 

I am now calling the groundwork finished!  The sheep are placed randomly for the moment just for effect and as they hold themselves in the grass very well without glue, I think I'll probably not bother fixing them into place as it will make dusting easier.  Tonight, if I'm still awake, I'll fix wire into the feet of the figures so they can also be removed.

My next more immediate job though is to catch up on everything else you've been doing over the last few weeks!

Toodle for now.

I still love the grass, but do I want to spend all that money?

Ewe've done a fantastic job there Wizz, I wish i had room to make more dioramas.

FINALLY, I have got this one finished.

Having had an extra week's leave forced upon us with all the students being finished early, I was knocked off on 18th December.  The original plan to visit DCOS' family in Somerset was canned with the new restrictions which left me at home with nothing better to do than to tidy out the hobbies room.  First, the huge pile of car-boot stuff went to the charity shop as they were open again and accepting donations, then my bench was cleared of everything that had been dumped in it during the fallow period since my last bit of modelling which was (scrolls to check the previous post) end of June!!!

Over the last two evenings, the figures were finished (I admit I had been putting this off and even if I had been able to find some modelling time, would possibly have made this my lowest priority), some spare fence rails knocked up from offcuts of the original fence to dump beneath the tree, a tarpaulin made for the back of the truck - blue roll liberally brushed with mod podge and water, folded, creased and painted once dry - and everything positioned then once I was happy, glued into place.  Once it was all set, a quick blast with compressed air to remove any loose bits and it's ready to go in the cabinet. 

As an added bonus and for a change of scenery, I had a run out to Driffield today with DCOS and saw Andy!  Sadly we had time for only a very quick chat before he had to go and help sort out the street after the market stalls had cleared up.

Now, if only I can pull a sicky for tomorrow and get out of the nonsense of 25th December, I might get my next part finished project done!   

A great looking diorama, well worth the wait.

That's really great Dave.

Well done Wizz - love the figures.

Absolutely fantastic!

Spot on!
Lots going on, well done that man.

Thanks all.  Just after I posted these pics, I realised how glossy the road/track looked - far wetter than I wanted it to.  I put on some matt Mod Podge which didn't work and then Humbrol matt varnish which didn't work and finally some Vallejo matt varnish.  That last one did the trick so I'm more than happy with the end result now.  I won't post a pic, instead I'll bring it along to the next meeting.     

The muddy field could be full of weeds by then!!

I shall simply let some more sheep out of the field