Building Rivoli Battlefield part 4

On Tuesday Lou came over to help and Wednesday I had off so Alan came out for the whole day and we got a ton of work done. We still are up against a pretty tight deadline, but I feel much better about it now.

Out comes the flock for the fields. Is there a thing as too much terrain?

The road next work with excess ballast cleaned off.

Laying out villages and planing the fields.

This is a long process. We paint on a ground color and drop the flock on it while the paint is still wet. We have a small roller we use to push the flock down into the paint. Then it takes about 3-4 hours to dry.

We shake off the excess flock onto newspaper and use that to dump it back into the bottles. Very little wastage.

We try to plan out the fields and do all one color at a time. What way when dumping the excess, we don't mix the colors.

So this is about 3 sessions worth of work.

The last session we just kept putting fields down, as we needed to make up some time. Some of the flock will mix when we dump, but we had to. This is where we stand right now, a week out from the convention.

Tonight I'll finish the fields and start patching where the flock is not fully glued to the board. Friday Alan is coming back and we will do hedgerows between the fields. We also have to add foliage to the rough areas like the mountain spur on the side of the table. And finally we need at least 2 days to pour the rivers. Eazy Peazy....

Xin