I made an insert for the cemetery model, the idea being
that this could be removed when the graveyard was
occupied by troops. I cut and filed a piece of MDF to fit
inside the cemetery walls. MDF files well so I was able
to slim down the edge at the entrance as a path to the
gate. I took a selection of gravestones and churchyard
memorials from a couple of Fleetline N-scale packs. I
attached these to the MDF base using a solvent-based
contact adhesive. I gave the base a covering of watered
down PVA glue and sprinkled on sand.
I used a piece of N-scale station fencing (see Post 56) for
the cemetery gate adding a Milliput cross bar at the
bottom. I painted the whole model, leaving the final
highlighting until later.
Back with the insert base, I used a PVA and grout mix to
finish off the joins and create burial mounds. Rather
than static-grass the whole base, I used Foundry’s Moss
greens (29A and 29B) to blend the grassy areas into the
path and to give the a graveyard a cut-grass maintained
look. I couldn’t resist adding some flowers even though
initially Army Painter’s Meadow Flowers looked
slightly out of scale. After a bit of careful pruning,
however, the insert base was complete.
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