Cwmbach and Terra Nova…
Cwmbach is a project that has evolved without a firm ‘concept sketch’. Whilst I have studied photos of the inspirarion, Cwmmawr extensively - and feel I know where the layout is heading, that lack of clarity has actually proven to be a bit of a block… So it was with a degree of avoidance that I approached the piece of modelling foam with a variety of cutting implements yesterday. A new material for me, unfamiliar. Not a great start to create the basis of the ground at the back of the layout, itself almost ethereal - in mind but never decisively sketched out - so here we are, working in reality, making a scene from feeling, alone. The first cut was not easy - literally. This is a material I will not come back to in a hurry, but it is light and dense and will support the trees I need at the right hand end. Those early shapes were forced and hurried, too coarse and overpowering. An old razor saw made lighter work of the material and helped me find something of a flow and with each cut I b...
