Culvert

In the comments to yesterday's post Galen asked for a close up of the culvert under the road that connects the peninsula to the shore. Here are a couple of photos.

The culvert was made by cutting an old pill bottle in half and wrapping it with some Alexander HO-scale corrugated sheet metal. Super glue was used to bond the metal to the bottle. A loose mixture of flat grey and aluminum acrylic paints was used to tone down the colour.

This area of the layout will be choked with reeds and tall grasses, which I still need to figure out how to create. A couple of weeks ago I bought a static grass applicator to help make that sort of vegetation, so there'll be a few experiments in the weeks to come.

Also, the 'water' hasn't yet been poured, although I've painted the base a greeny-black so I can at least get an idea of the colour tones in this area.