Last week I wrote an entry about the camp by the lake. This entry is a progress report on this section of the layout.

So I got out the Busch camping set and had a go at placing them on the shore of the lake. It looked good enough to spur me on to do some more (the white stuff is cheap clay which I was using to do some scenery).

Thinking the adjacent board (which is removable) was a bit bare I added some cheaper trees to it to see how it might alter the look of the scene.

It looked quite good. I then plaster bandaged the hills and lake bed.

But that was not enough, the background trees looked good but needed something else to give them a bit more interest (there is a clearing in the forest that will have a cameo of some sort). So I added a small hill and area for a pond.

Then I painted it brown.

The pond had a deciduous tree over it which will feature a tyre swing. This small pond is there to test my ability to do water before I do something big with the lake.

It is also worthy of note that I am selling a load of stuff on ebay and the market place to try and raise funds for the next modelling project. It is going to be an interesting one and I am very excited about the possibilities it has.

Thanks for reading

Stephen