Montgreenan

[Mountain Goat]

Things are looking great. Well done.

[glencairn]

Another model railway that is of high standard. Well done.

Glencairn

[Cliffyg]

Very nice work , as for ballasting hmm I hate the thought of starting it but quite enjoy it !

[IanLMS]

Layouts looking really good. Very neat amd tidy and some great modelling!!

[Hound Dog]

Hi,

Been making some progress on the townscene for Montgreenan and today more or less completed the Church and graveyard ( some finishing touches still required, including trees etc)...…...I was wondering how to fill the space I had behind the parcels office, when I hit on the idea of a little graveyard (brings a whole new meaning to "despatches and being shipped out" - sorry), and so I reworked the Metcalfe Church model to save the Lych gate to be used as the entrance to the graveyard ( in truth I did not have the width available at street level to use the Lych gate in its intended use as the main entrance to the Church…….also had to omit the rear aisle section for same reason).

Not yet made any visible progress on my retaining walls and coming around to the idea of use embossed stone paper to provide the desired effect - a final decision will be made this week but slowly going off the idea of painting and weathering individual bricks. Have purchased a few more Metcalfe kits ( I am addicted to these ) to complete the shops and obligatory pub for the town, after which a suitable road-surface and backscene will be the next things to be contemplated.

I have also been busy extending the width of one of the lift-out section baseboards to provide a more realistic descent from the road-bridge I posted on my previous update, but will save details on that until a future update when I have actually made some progress on building the road and embankment etc

Finally learned a few hard lessons this past week that things which might break at the forefront of the layout, will indeed break when one is working on scenery at the back of the layout, including an expensive Train-tech sensor signal that I accidentally snapped in two...……..such breakable items will be removed during future work or not even installed until the other work is completed - sob sob !

Hope you enjoy the photos and as always any comments welcomed and appreciated - thanks Richard

PS - No trains have been run recently during the making of this layout...….

[glencairn]

Coming along nicely and looking good, Richard. Well done.

Glencairn

[mijj]

It looks real good, well done .
Jim.

[Bandit Mick]

Very nice - keep it up. I use card/card kits. It doesn't provide texture but it is an easy medium to work with and if scratchbuilding, cheap.

[bulleidboy]

Looking good - you can always enhance a card kit by adding a plastic tiled roof or brick/stone walls. Have a look at Redutex tiles - I bought my last stock from them directly - from Spain - supplies in the UK are often very limited - try DCC Concepts if your interested.

[Hound Dog]

Looking good - you can always enhance a card kit by adding a plastic tiled roof or brick/stone walls. Have a look at Redutex tiles - I bought my last stock from them directly - from Spain - supplies in the UK are often very limited - try DCC Concepts if your interested.

Yes, plan to improve the card Kit buildings in time and to this end have already bought some guttering and TV aerials etc...... the Redutex product does look good and will probably try some on the roofs when I have time to go back over things and make improvements - thanks