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So we now come to painting the actual rocks. You wet the black undercoat with water and then apply blotches of colors like umber, ochre, dark yellows, greens and browns. Over that, still wet goes you core rock color. In my case that was white which blends with the black into a grey Alpine/Dolomite core rock color. Where the grey hits the blotches you get nice changes in tone like in real life. 

Then when everything is dry, you dry brush white onto all the edges which simply raises the entire paintwork to an amazing level. You can NEVER have enough drybrushing. Each path of the dry brush brings out another level of detail. I probably spent 3 days doing the paint after the undercoat and 6 days drybrushing. 

Here we can see the individual roadside “safety” blocks typically found on high alpine roads to stop cars going over the edge. They are all the little white blocks on the road side. They get painted later. Bill was fabulous in casting hundreds for me to use.
   
Really good contrast of the white plaster on left and near final painted plaster on the right. Also shows the overhanging roadway
   
Detail shot of the painted section under the overhanging roadway. Now with a little grass and trees
   
Overall shot. Contrast this with the naked track structure, the white plaster version and the black undercoat versions above
   
Detail of rocks on the main mountain with the snow tunnel underneath
   
Big back piece painted and out of focus.
   
The bridge! This was “fun” to build. Every single piece there is assembled together from those single rock blocks that form the roadside “safety” blocks that you can see in background. I think the central pylon alone has 40-50 rock “bricks”. The guardrails between the blocks at the top of the bridge are bamboo sticks. One section of rail is deliberately setup to collapse should a driver despot there and they will literally dive over the edge all the way into the bottom of the gorge. He he ehhehehehe. It has happened several times! Click on the photo to turn it the right way up.