Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

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My last progress report on "Rainbows in the Gorge" was 2/15/25....  If you're expecting miracles, I have none on the model railroading front.  

Dog's free to roam about the house now and he's back to his old self, all of the interior painting's finished, all of my mulching and weeding in the yard has been accomplished.  Since I'm now back in step with the Joneses, I have been embarking on some model railroad tasks.  Been running my fleet quite a bit - which is fun - especially when locomotives and rolling stock are playing nice.

And it's back to scenery!  I'm still in need of some rock faces on the new (relatively) mountainous escarpment installed this winter.  Back in February I'd poured plaster into molds.  The completed castings sat until this afternoon.  Since a lot of this rock face work is going to be executed with me leaning over the mountain and probably using a mirror, any prework I can accomplish without blood rushing to my head is going to be a bonus.  In a lot of cases I've stuck the castings on, filled in the gaps with Sculptamold, pressed in some texture and let things dry before painting the rock faces - but this time I'm at least pre-painting the castings.

I'm not generally a "spray bomb" guy, but there are occasions when a simple shake can of black paint is definitely the way to go.  The plaster soaks up quite a bit of the paint do to it's porousness, so it quickly fades to a dark gray - which is a great place for me to start with these rocks.

   

After these dry, it'll be time to get the brushes and paints out - white, black, blue, brown and green should be enough to detail these.