Dean’s been in touch with his N scale waterfall that he’s added to his layout:

“Al, cheers, from Dean in New Mexico!

I was trying to get this out a month ago, but a required knee replacement set me back. I’m now to the point that I can get back to my computer.

Here’s the latest progress on my Conejo Valley Railroad: finishing (almost) the scenery.

I constructed and attached all outer boards: two back boards painted sky blue (2 oz blue acrylic added to ¾ of a pint of white wall paint), one on the back and one on the right of the layout.

And two black fascia boards for the remaining two sides.

I’ve covered the landscape of the entire layout using my usual brown basecoat followed by earth, burnt grass, and light green fine turf scattered over diluted white glue

Next, I added small bushes and trees fixed with dilute white glue.

Western United States streams usually have a series of rapids followed by straight runs. I used successive layers of ¼” foam covered with plaster cloth to simulate this. The final river is one of the few things I’ll need to finish soon

Note the initial lower layer is still covered with aluminum foil on the left.

I built up the large waterfall by laying down a shaped layer of white glue on parchment paper. After it dried, I added streaks of more white glue to give it some structure. Here it is dried after dry brushing with white paint.

After cutting with scissors to fit the slot in the rock and bending to form where it went over, the waterfall was attached with hot glue.

Then the upper river was built up with three layers of white glue.

Here’s what the falls and upper river look like finished.

And a train runs by it.

Thanks, Al.

Dean”

A big thanks to Dean for sharing his N scale waterfall addition!

That’s all for today folks.

Please do keep ’em coming.

And if today is the day you get going on your layout, the Beginner’s Guide is here.

Best

Al

PS Latest ebay cheat sheet is here.

PPS More N scale layouts here if that’s your thing.