Garfield

Old Quarry Done....

At the top of the Garfield Switchbacks is the old Limestone Quarry they used to mine (circa 1890's to early 1900's). They quickly realized they needed more then this could offer and opened the large mine (as it still stands today).

So knowing I was going model the switchbacks, I knew I wanted to throw this detail in. So I spent a LOT of time looking over pictures of the area today (that I took)...and tried to match color tones and streaking effects as much as possible.

I think that it turned out pretty good!

One Item of note....as strange as it is...the dirt 'base' color is something I tried to match very closely too. The area around the old quarry had some darker dirt...which really surprised me. So I ended up using this color tone across the whole area. I will be putting down some real dirt as well to help blend. But still something that I studied to try to get right.