Building a Scene

The corner on (D) segment that's currently under work has been covered with earth now. The layers, 3 or maximum 4 in some spots have settled properly, with a nice texture everywhere. The boulders were further treated with some zip texturing in order to blend them in with the terrain. Several pieces of tree trunks and twigs were also glued to place. A miniNatur bush has been also temporarily fixed next to the track. Since this photo was taken yesterday however, more than half the space was filled with grass and some scattered rocks, and ballasting was done on almost the whole curve.
The Viessmann figure (5127 Farmer with pickaxe) has been reconverted to a railroad worker, since the blue outfit including the cap didn't suggest much farm work, at least to me. Around this fellow that's supposed to dig a bit around the ballast, a couple of elements will have to be placed. Pictured below we have - (1) a railroad piece of track, already airbrushed with 2 coats of the standard railroad tie formula (2ml Tamiya XF-10/0,6ml Tamiya XF-1/3ml Tamiya X-20A) that will sit across the tracks to the small figure, (2) a crate, taken from a Preiser military ammunition kits, sprayed with 2 coats of 0,3ml XF-64 Tamiya Red Brown/0,2ml Tamiya German Grey/0,25 Tamiya thinner) which will probably be placed next to the worker, (3) a metal barrel that I intend to spay with some Grey/Gun Metal combination and (4) one shovel that will have some Red Brown for the handle and a Grey/Gun Metal for the metal part. These last two, as seen in the photo, are not yet done; their origin is from the accessories given with the Faller 110096 railway station - itself a very interesting assortment, including big bags, ladders, various shovels - their only downside is the rather crude finishing - quite a few burrs that take time to treat.