Woody gets plaster and makes some good goo!

Time to put my impromptu 09 project to one side and get back to some work on My Last Great Project 00 gauge layout. With the wiring and point motors done it is now time to move back to the topside of the baseboard and get on with progressing the landscape.

I had already built the scenery sub-bases to a rough shape and these will need to be carved to their final shape before the next stage of construction starts. I have started off with the smallest sub-base first and risking my well being have used Mrs. Woody' bread knife to carve the landscape to shape. Must remember to put it back and I just hope she doesn't read this!

With that done it was time to get the plaster impregnated bandage out of the WMD Stores. If you have been unfortunate enough to have had a broken limb this is what they use to put a cast around it so that the healing process can happen.

Now plaster impregnated bandage can be messy to use as you need to wet the plaster. I was not going to end up looking like some form of mummy from the tomb or in this case Man Cave with bandage and plaster hanging from me so my plan was to cut small pieces from the roll and wet it in situ by brushing water onto it. Cunning but would it work? Time to find out so the first part of the bandage was cut and placed on the sub-base.

By gently brushing water onto it the plaster liquified and could be brushed out over the bandage just as I hoped!

Things progressed as more bandage was added and I stayed clean!

Finally all the sub-base was covered in bandage and being a quick setting plaster it was just about dry!

This was fine but it looks a bit anemic! Time to add some colour and texture. Out came some ordinary plaster and some brown acrylic paint.

Mixing that lot up and I ended up with this goo - it was not like the Goo desert that had been in the pot before the jar was requisition for this job but nevertheless this was a good goo! Having a brownish colour means that should the scenery get chipped it will show a brown instead of a glaring white colour.

With the mix applied using a stiff brush I could get some texture to the supposed rock face of the cutting side.

I just need to let it all fully dry and then move onto the next sub-base! However I have remained clean and that's the main thing!