Railway Cottages

Here are a few snaps of the almost complete pair of cottages for the club layout

Really just an experiment in different techniques to see what works and what doesn't. any comments or feedback would be appreciated.

The front garden of No 1. 

The building is Das modelling clay on foamboard, since I started on this model, I seem to have moved exclusively to scribed 'Depron' foamboard which is far quicker and much cleaner.

The paths are scribed foam, as are the stone walls. The decorative bricks are made using an old paintbrush ferule as a stamper.
There's a bit of cleaning up to do yet, that doorstep looks a bit dodgy, I'll have to take a closer look at that. The gates are built up from microstrip. The flowerbeds are Oasis, which is nice and easy to plant individual stems into.

The rain barrel is the only part of this model which is a proprietary item.

The front garden of No 2. 

The stone sett path is Crayola Model Magic, marked out with a stamper made from an old paintbrush ferule  from which the bristles have been removed. It could just as easily be Das or foamboard I suppose. There's a bit to do yet, some titivating up and detailing, and the whole model needs weathering down a little.

The rear of the cottages with the little foamboard shed and the rockery populated with Forest Floor Moss plants. The rockery stones are kitty litter and the raised flowerbeds are made from Oasis with various different attempts at flowers. The dividing stone wall is made from Oasis.

The crazy paving and decorative brick path are scribed foamboard. There's still a bit of cleaning up to do here, but as the finished model won't be particularly visible from the rear, I'll probably not add too much extra detailing back there.

I accidentally left the model for hours in full sunlight, which distorted the rooftiles. Well, it was the 1930's and small railway companies didn't have much money to spend on their workers cottages... That's going to be my excuse. (and anyway,  'It aint Pendon!)