My first and only attempt at glacial til on my layout.
Not often done. Looks good!
You captured the random texture of till. But till wouldn't stay very stable as a vertical cut. It would rapidly slump. (My area is mostly till, particularly the drumlin hills that formed from glacial features. Road cuts through those have a slope to prevent that. Our house is built on small hill of till, that's why it drains so well giving me a nice dry basement. But it's kinda hard to grow stuff here without adding a lot of humus to restore the nutrients that leached out through the till.)
dave
It has a good Bay of Fundy look (though it's been a decade since I was in Moncton, let alone on the shore).
Here in the Great Marsh (North of Cape Ann, MA), the muck is very fine and dark gray with a hint of green in full sun. The marsh creek beds are more like native soil inland, with sand, gravel and cobbles
Quote from: deemery on April 05, 2026, 10:05:15 AMYou captured the random texture of till. But till wouldn't stay very stable as a vertical cut. It would rapidly slump. (My area is mostly till, particularly the drumlin hills that formed from glacial features. Road cuts through those have a slope to prevent that. Our house is built on small hill of till, that's why it drains so well giving me a nice dry basement. But it's kinda hard to grow stuff here without adding a lot of humus to restore the nutrients that leached out through the till.)
dave
If I only knew back then more about glacial til. The mistake I made was not looking at the big picture.
I used images like this, as a reference.
Quote from: jbvb on April 05, 2026, 10:54:20 AMIt has a good Bay of Fundy look (though it's been a decade since I was in Moncton, let alone on the shore).
Here in the Great Marsh (North of Cape Ann, MA), the muck is very fine and dark gray with a hint of green in full sun. The marsh creek beds are more like native soil inland, with sand, gravel and cobbles
I will have to look up images of the Great Marsh in your neck of the woods on the net.
Many more may be found by searching, but I posted model and prototype photos of marsh in Rowley and Newbury, MA on page 9 of my Boston & Maine Eastern Route Progress thread:
https://modelersforum.com/index.php?topic=6843.120
Quote from: jbvb on April 07, 2026, 10:21:02 AMMany more may be found by searching, but I posted model and prototype photos of marsh in Rowley and Newbury, MA on page 9 of my Boston & Maine Eastern Route Progress thread:
https://modelersforum.com/index.php?topic=6843.120
Thanks James. I will take a good look.