Rock progress

Been a bit quiet here in Utrainia for the last month or so. With good reason however, as my CNC machine has been taking up all my time. I am hoping that once I have ironed out the bugs it will be both accurate and powerful enough to help make many of my models. I can design them upstairs in comfort, and then "print" them out on the machine, which will then carve them out before my very eyes. Currently there is still a bit of work to do on it, and I'm waiting on a few final components.

In the meantime, I have resumed work on my canyon scene. I have finally finished carving all the rocks, after a couple of additional weekends work carving away. Now it is time to move on to more exciting stages, as I stain all the rocks.

It is certainly starting to take shape. Soon I will get the track down and ballasted and it will start looking like a proper scene. Then it is just also-tedious process of adding in the remaining gravel, and blending the rocks and gravel together. Once the track is down I can start adding the rockfall shelter, which I'm looking forward to.

While working on this scene my appreciation for the Utrainia Dept of Civil Engineering has greatly increased. This is a challenging piece of country and they have done their nation proud with this line.