Builder: Ian Dale

Chook Lane is my second attempt at this challenge. The first as a scenic novice was maybe too ambitious. So this time it was all about learning the craft and, most importantly finishing.

Things started well, an old recycled picture frame yielded a piece of mdf for the base exactly 8 inches square! The cottage and the grounded van body were also part completed projects. To bring everything together the scene was set as a cottage on a country lane  with a van chicken coop in an adjacent field. A Network Rail “Landy” parked in the lane providing the second rail element.

Firstly the cottage was detailed with a Scalescenes tiled roof, with gutters and downpipes from scrap wire and plastic.  I then learnt to use a double-action airbrush for the first time to paint the van, with the ramps made from scrap card. The hedges, another first, are flock covered pan scrub. The garden gates are again from scrap card.  The lane too became an exercise in learning to paint and dry brush a road. The white decorative stones are painted grit recycled from the soles of a shoe!

Finally, figures were added to complete the scene and inject a little humour to raise a smile.

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