Dont get old! I think I might have said that before!

Christmas came - and with it a bad stomach bug. This had a disastrous effect on my sugar levels which in turn had an affect on my eyesight (incipient Diabetic Neuropathy...) FORTUNATELY strong doses of medication resolved both the bug and the sugar levels (eventually) but it's taken some time for my eyesight to return (almost) to normal. A new pair of prescription lenses has also helped!

Anyway, I decided to do some fairly 'broad-brush' (about 1/2"!) to get back into it - hence I've spent the last few days concentrating on the cladding for the viaduct. At first I was going to use 'Depron Foam' - suitably inscribed to represent stone - but poor concentration and a love of weathered 'London Stock' bricks led to a change of heart. Shades of all those luvley viaducts leading into London!

So out with the embossed plastikard - in this case 'SouthEast Finecast's 'English Bond'. . Then I had to scribe the various brick arches anyway! Slowly a 'kit of parts' appeared...

The first of the paint layers was then added using 'Vallejo' acrylics - rapidly becoming my favourite finish... Its a bit 'bright' at the mo' - but London stocks quickly oxidise down to overtones of blacks & greys - and that will be the next task!

More (not too much) later!

Regards

Ian