Scenery
Stage 1: Building the Styrofoam Base
This is constructed from a mix of styrofoam sheets purchased from Clark Rubber and various pieces of styrofoam packaging such as those used to pack electrical appliances
Stage 2: Reinforcement
for reinforcement I used plasterboard joining tape. This is a self adhesive nylon mesh which is used to reinforce plaster joins in plasterboard (referred to as drywall in the USA)
Stage 3: Plaster
I used a mixture of patching plaster and plaster of paris. Patching plaster is thick and relatively slow setting so it's better for sticking to vertical surfaces than plaster of paris which is runny but sets hard quite suddenly.
Stage 4: Stones
I've used "Random Stone" sheets from Slater's PlastiKard for the retaining walls and sea walls
Stage 5: Paint
I painted the embossed sheets with grey matt undercoat then applied acrylic gap filler with a scraper to simulate mortar between the stones. The tide mark on the sea wall is a combination of blue/green artists acrylics made "wet" with clear finish estapol. The sea in front of the sea wall is a base coat of blue, green, black, white and brown acrylics in various hues to simulate depth and finished with several coats of clear estapol.
Stage 6: Finishing off
More of the beach. I created the water as above and painted the rock in various hues of black, grey and brown. the beach is painted sandy colours, at 1/76 scale I figured sand would be too fine to look sandy so I just went for a very flat finish. I then glued scatter materials to simulate grass, including the colour sawdust type and the fibre "static" grass that's supposed to stand up because of a static charge but I'm not really convince of this.
