Painting...and twigs with green stuff on.

With a week to go until the WRG show at Steyning, it's time to add some small details, especially to the area of the warehouse/loading platform. 

I had already assembled some skips from plastic kits as well as a couple of Minitanks (ex-) Bundeswehr 20' containers and other stuff. The shelter hut also got a coat of silver paint. I tried to paint the various bits in similar colours to the underlying plastic; that way, the effect of any chips or poor coverage is minimised.

The blue and white objects are roller shutter doors for the warehouse. 

Another Thing That Needs Doing is to add some trees, saplings, etc., partly to add a bit of depth and disguise corners and odd bits where the backscene didn't quite work out. I bought a Woodland Scenics "Forest Canopy" kit, which consists of small bits of a dead plant which you coat with the supplied glue and then add scatter to represent foliage. I tried this, but found it didn't work for me, so I cut the seed heads off the plant pieces and used either neat pva or spray glue to add the foliage. The results aren't great, but will do for "background" trees.

I've also used a pack of Aspen trunks that have been kicking around the scenery box for a decade or so...

This is a work in progress,  hopefully I'll be able to add them and some undergrowth, etc., to the layout tomorrow.