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That's a good idea, thanks.

We continued to work on the river with WS water effects ripples, and adding some whitewater. We've tried a few things with the whitewater. Trying to very sparingly add a little white paint is hard...

We used WS "Deep Pour" which is a two part epoxy for the water. To hold that in while it cures, we glued pieces of scrap foam along the sides and back. We then went back with the WS "Ripples" water...

Wow, that's impressive. And no, that one is probably not bear fodder!

Since the part on land is pretty much finished, we worked on the river... which means figuring out N scale salmon. After some trial and error, the thing that seemed to work best is solder. Pinch the...

After finishing a few more trees and figuring out where they all would go, we removed all the trees and replaced them with numbered pegs. The trees got stuck in pieces of scrap foam with...

Sure could :) We also talked about using one of the brown bears that is rearing up on it's hind legs back in the trees as well. Right now the plan is just one bear plus a family of deer back in the...

In case anybody is curious about comparing N scale bears...

We ended up getting both the Woodland Scenics black bears, and the Preiser brown bears, both seen below. We'll use the brown bear for...

Continuing construction, we added a layer of grout to simulate dirt. Slightly thinned white glue spread everywhere you want it to stick, shaken from a small container covered with a piece of nylon,...

Laying out the rocks in place, on some plastic to contain the mess from the next part :) Some rock castings were left over from previous projects, and a few new ones for this.

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And with...

My young son and I have been working on a small layout for a couple of years now, seen in the thread below:
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