Paint, tweaks and texturing

All the elements are glued in place now. I may have procrastinated just a little (a lot) about where everything went but the good thing about gluing everything down is that after a while the decision is made for you and you're stuck with it (Dad joke, I'm so sorry). Sprayed everything over again with grey primer. The Halford's one's have a quite rough matte texture which I like. 

The unpainted white bits are where I've had to correct for shrinkage of a base by adding a little extra modelling clay.
The photo on the left's a bit ropey (I refuse to spell ropey without an "e" spell-checker) but I've kept it because it shows the imprint of the walls on the bases. 

Surprising; they didn't shrink that badly, I think, because I left the buildings in the bases while they dried, even in the oven. ​I got a bit carried away next, it's not easy to remember to keep stopping to take photos. Before I knew it I'd spread PVA all over bits of the board and was adding ballast (medium and fine) and some kiln dried sand I had left over from constructing a patio, badly.

I've also put the buildings back in temporarily. The job of painting all those pieces is looming like a big, black loomy thing. I did have fun making the road. A couple of intermediate LEGO cogs on an axle, a smear of sand in a vague road like shape, back an forth with the cogs and a road/track appears. 

 A road complete with something that passes for vehicle (I was going for tank,but let's stick with vehicle) tracks are created, as long as you don't look too closely...

So here's some close ups.

Next up, I probably need to get some more paint on these, somehow I've come to believe that multiple layers of paint make things better. Maybe they just hide the errors, who knows? I do still have to paint all those buildings though.