Although this is a wholly imaginary and somewhat fanciful little mountain town I found myself worrying about how they managed all the water that would run down the roads in a storm. There was an empty internal corner in the road below the saloon that I've been figuring how to treat and Bingo! I could put in a drainage pond with a discharge pipe in the wall below. Water would run via a ditch alongside the saloon and cascade down the cliff into the holding pond. Above a certain level the water would pour into a vertical drainpipe down to the discharge pipe.
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I made the pond base from plaster and scenicked it in. Then I used up some left over Woodlands Scenics Easy Water granules that I had and instantly regretted it, it's bloody awful stuff, has to be melted and has a nasty yellow tinge to it and the fumes are objectionable. When it was set I brushed on some black spirit stain to lose the colour and when dry I brushed on some Gloss medium. The geese have been lying in my scrap box for about 40 years. They were a one piece polyethylene moulding from a kid's farm set, all four set in a row. I detached them from the base, sanded the bottoms flat and plonked them in the wet medium with a tiny bit of white acrylic "splashing" behind the mother. I might add some lily pads later.
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Some painters say the most difficult thing is to know when to stop paining - I think I just got there.
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