"One Day My Tar-mac Will Come"

Honestly, could this railway be going any slower ... ?

Anyway, base for concrete is now cut for the goods yard.  Plan is to have it sprayed* and glued in place by Christmas.  Or may be next Christmas.

*Spraying Plan: Couple of coats of 'Plastikote Suede Touch', followed by gentle sprinklings of white and grey primer, topped off with the odd bit of weathering powder.  (Well, this chap seems to think it's a good idea ...)  I'm taking the gamble that the 'Fab Foam', which makes up the track 'inserts' will flex slightly post spraying to get round the bends.

Yes, It's Ballasting Time ...

 Those delightful hours spent getting PVA / water mixture all over your back-scene, then realising your trains don't run anymore as you've gunged up the track with grit - and when they do run the motor noises grind like they're being amplified through big speakers.

I love this hobby.

Lights please.

Well, I wasn't sure it was going to ever work, but I've now overcome LEDs, resistors, 12v incandescent bulbs, soldering and adapters, all mixed on the same model.  (Two weeks ago, this electricity thing was little more than witch-craft.)

Ivy

Well, that's the worst of the wall 'warping' covered up with ivy ... still just making the best of a bad bit of paper v. damp planning but I'm not making another bloody wall.  (May change my mind next winter when it finally curls up like and starts flapping like the 'red fish' one finds in a Christmas cracker.)

From Evernote:

Humbrol Video

Well, this is a handy video ... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFGofuW_6aE&list=PL772014C4BF1D5598&index=3]

From Evernote:

Plug-In Oil Radiator Not Included

Having made remarkably little progress again in the past few weeks, I decided that what every 'site' needs is an office ...

From Evernote:

"Fear Builds Walls"

And Scalescenes makes walls which, I fear, take many, many hours to build ...