first of all guys, thanks for all the warming words - they do mean a lot.
Now, as I hinted in the preveious post work is not done with the pit - my aim was to finish in a stage of completion that it could enter and place in a show. I did that, but that does not mean that there's no room for improvement. I have some thoughts regarding said improvemnts that I would like to share in the following ( I do go on a bit but bear with me..)
thoughts on the roof structure:
When I did the roof of the pit I glued balsa sticks toghter painted them brown and forgot all about that one side of the roof them would be quite exposed - forming the one side of the pit opening.
In the drawing I am using for reference the roof is a sandwich construction of concrete, timber ,gravel, earth and steel "I" beams - the drawing is kind of hard to make out, even when enlarged, but I am somewhat sure that the smaller "I beams" are bolted to either heavy timber or larger iron beams, so I guess I could use A larger size "I "beam and glue it to the side, that would cover the wood. This would be quite rusty and would be a nice weathering thing.
Another option is to take the exposed beam as being wood, by scraping a wood grain into it and make it generally more "woody - looking"
Option number 3 - leave it be.....
Staying with the Roof - protruding timber logs
I wanted to show of some the design features of the timber constructions - especially the steel hoops binding the heavy logs together, I have left them visible several places but they are either hidden in shadows or blendig in with the terrain - I decided to make them rusty which did not help matters either.
I am thinking that these logs are running the length of the roof and by removing some of the celluclay and by gluing 5 other small bits - with the hoops more prominently showing - in the other end, I can show that.
What do you think - am I overthinking this?