British Railway Modelling (BRM)

Modelling a Winter Scene

WHAT YOU NEED

Deluxe Materials

Realistic Water

Gaugemaster

Icicle Paste, Light up Christmas Tree, Mod Podge Glue, Noch 15828 Downhill Skiers, Noch N15819 Children In The Snow Sledging, Noch Snow Paste, Noch Snow Powder

Osborne Models

ALOO201 Arch Laser Flexible Cotswold Stone Walling

Vallejo

Snow Paste

Woodland Scenics

A1894 Snowball Fight, A1899 Ice Skaters, Flex Paste, Winter pack

Other

A selection of spatulas, bicarbonate of soda, Das Air Dried Clay, toilet roll, white acrylic paint, Indigo and Black acrylic paint

Last year, I was invited to attend the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition at the NEC with my fellow LocoLadies, and I took a village diorama, 'Higher Edge Village'. It was a typical Yorkshire village, with a cobbled market square, a church and shops with Magnorail cyclists weaving their way under arches and around the village. It also had a short length of track representing a heritage railway with a station.

Having been invited back to Warley for 2023, I made the decision to revamp the village into a snowy, icy, winter scene. I had never modelled winter before, but I always liked doing something new, so I decided to completely redo the village to take it back to the exhibition in 2023.

Although heavy

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