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it gest any worse.

Multiple attempts into this, the goal was to achieve the soft, rounded look of Devonshire, but it ended up looking like the Scottish Highlands. After some polyester fill, it smoothed out a bit, but not nearly as I had hoped. Short of tearing the whole thing out, I'm going to lurch forward. The torrid green is a cheap paint used as an undercoat to conceal any white bits from being too obvious. The question on my mind is what sorts of geology would be revealed in railway cuts? Gray granite? Blond sandstone? Vertical or horizontal striations or blasted granite rough faced?

Thank you for not laughing.

In Devon it seems more likely to be old red sandstone.

Oh wow, that is beautiful. And nothing I would have expected.

I think your attempts are great the hill is coming on fine. Add bit more greens and darken it down a bit. Base looks bit like white cliffs of Dover. May be more rocky colours. Try using coloured flocks fixed with PVA glue and stick it down with that. But that is your choice it is your railway.

This is my hillside under construction a few months back the rocks have been colour finished now, but get the idea. I used 10 different colours of flock to get that effect.

Those hills have a marvelous topography. One wonders what the geological story is behind them. The abrupt contours on some of them make me feel a little better about my lumps and bumps. In the end I wimped out and went for gray granite like with horizontal stratum. Still fiddling with it. It never occurred to me put in a stone retaining wall; nice effect.

Volcanic Chops

Ice age caused huge scares in the UK landscape as the ice slowly moved out to sea.

I think the majority of volcanic change happened in Scotland.

Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:56 pm I think the majority of volcanic change happened in Scotland.

And Wales, and Devon/Cornwall, and the Lake District.

Sorry, O level geography kicked in.

OK I stand corrected. Thanks Steve. Should have realised about Wales. The rocks on the west coast look like swiss rolls.