This weekend I was doing a little track work when word came to management that city customers were losing water pressure. I went to a main intersection and sure enough workers were digging a hole to make repairs.
I cut the foam board with a hobby knife and removed the square of foam. I painted the hole with bown paint and put some brown ground cover in the whole. A worker was placed in the whole with his pick and shovel. The dirt pile is burnt sienna tempra powder. The concrete pile is chunks of plaster painted concrete with India Ink and alcohol used to darken it.
Activity begins to pick up around the site as onlookers and local citizens gathered to put in their two cents. The White Castle and the gas station are City Classics, I used various figures and cars to dress the scene. The clear plastic supporting the bicycles will be painted the matching color depending on where they are placed. It looks like that taxi driver is about to get a ticket for endangering the workers.
The bus is a Jordan kit and I guess that fellow decided it was time to travel. As I finish the ballasting of the track with the tempra and sand mixture I begin to add a dirt mixture at the edges for ground cover. I am not sure it they will ever finish the repair but at least the pressure is back up and the customers are happy. Looking over the situation it’s become a beehive of activity.
I really enjoy constructing scenes like this. There is more to do but it adds interest.
Great job. Your laberers need to have one foot on the shovel so thier back wont hurt. Thats what OSHA told the guys at our DPW. The super at the DPW one night came over the radio during a snow storm saying the shovelers forgot thier shovels so they will have to lean on each other till some one brings them out. I laughed so hard I plowd down a half dozen mail boxes.
I can remember when we set up the Dunham Studio’s Christmas layout in the WTC, when it came to hooking up the power (1 orange extention cord with an edison plug) to an outlet in the ceiling, there were 2 guys on a lift, 2 guys watching the lift and 6 or 7 supervisors! And it took them 3 hours to get it turned on.
