Or August actually, and not really a day more a couple of hours in the evening. Spurred on by 2 visits to the decent layout at Butterley and another depressing visit to the shit ones at Swanwick whilst at Indietracks. Not to mention coming back with a 'Western' body, 3 southern Maunsell coaches and 5 box vans, work is continuing out in the train room. Not too much last night, but i’m so far happy with what i’ve done.
Theres definitely room for improvement though, the ballast i picked up the other week is far too dark so will need a layer of lighter grey over the top to keep it uniform, but the top station is now built and painted and waiting for the finer detailing – a white strip along the edge and i’d like to try and take inspiration from Swanwick itself with some nicely located flower pots and a decent station name (still to be decided, it won’t be Bideford though) I’m very happy with the way the bay road looks (ballast excepted) and will carry on painting the sides of the rails with the rust colour, however tedious it may be.
Next thing to do is finish the ballasting of the loco and work on the detail there, then put the signal box in place and work around that. Lastly for the top station, having finished last night with gluing the wall all the way along behind the back track is sort the road out in front of the long terrace. Hopefully once all thats done, it should look very presentable. The finer detailing can wait, as it’s down to the carriage sidings after that to get them laid in as best possible.
What else, of course, pictures! I took some and will load them to the Flickr set here to get more of a story of whats going on, whoop!
