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Hi Denis, me neither. And I presume the Monday in Boskanays reply would have been Monday 24th?

You could be right Denis, but too late I'm afraid. Grass work has already commenced. Pics to follow. Ah, I will live with it. And if I still not happy, I will rip it out and fix it. Wouldn't be the first time

Enough already with the crazy talk, back to the matter in hand. Got busy with the styrofoam. Taking shape slowly... Still need to address the road colour.

Reminds me of the tale of the Kerryman and the Yank driving the Ring of Kerry, with the Kerryman giving out hell about the amount of potholes in the road. Not wanting his pal to feel too bad about the place, the Yank said, "It's not too bad . Look there, you can see the top of that rabbit's ears sticking out of that hole". "That's not a rabbit", replied the Kerryman, "that's a donkey!" That's what I will do with my road. Just cover it in water and half submerge a car or two. No worries about colour then

Thanks for the tips lads, and for all the kind words from the other lads. Always encouraging. As regards the black colour, I can see that it is far too black and "new" looking ok. I will definitely try to tone it down some, using the methods you suggested. But to be honest, as the black is just emulsion like the rest of the layout, it doesn't take long for the sheen to disappear. By the time I have this scene completed, the thing will be "pure manky" Thanks, but you need to have a bit more faith in your own abilities. Your station roof on your layout is the business.

Excellent work Andreas. Beautiful trains

Bridge in and painted. Road also in place.... Scenery next....Well that messy white aeroboardy stuff before the actual scenery I suppose

Always with the plans..........

Hi George, yes I intend to use a version of the "cattle scene" again too. And that version of the layout is definitely" WAS". It,s gone now

Its a song from " The Rubber Bandits" . Look it up.... No end to the talent in Limerick, kid!

Roof looks great. Coming on nicely now

Hi George, great minds think alike. From my old layout before I ripped it up

bring back the superquinn sausages, @DJ Dangerous

The carcass of the humpbacked bridge, to the left of the station.... Here is the 6mm MDF road with the thickness reduced in places to bend to the bridge... Not great pics of the MDF, but you get the idea.... I hope

Or, a pre weathered supertrain one, mmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Davenport. Some good points from the lads above. I would have a think about down the road a bit. Do you really need all those sidings?, what are they going to be used for, apart from just having lots of track? Are you going to have platforms, and if so where?. And also. think about how much buildings and scenery you want. A little planning will go a long way. I know this from bitter experience. I had to rip up most of my original trackwork to make the layout work. (Shudder) But hey, it's your layout so go with what you want. Last thing, you can't get away with just putting down ballast first like that. No, you have to go through hours of blood, sweat and tears like the rest of us ballasting the tracks

Look what arrived in town. Finally got my hands on some cravens... And little beauties they are too.

Brilliant! Jesus, what goes on in your mind?

Condolences to Dave's family and friends.

Thanks, that's because I covered all glued areas with the turf, so glue didn't show afterwards. No, not really Robert. Think I will just leave it now and move on. Bridges to be built. Its solid enough as it is I think

In the end I just went with the ol PVA. I dabbed it on with a brush where I wanted the turf, sprinkled on turf ,allowed it to set and then brushed off the excess. And added some foliage etc. too

just about to say that

And the poor bastard pushing it- as per pic

Needed to finish landscaping the area to the left of station, in front of the tunnel, before I moved on. Gonna have a road leaving the town (from the corner of churchyard) , with a bridge over the track, so I had to do landscaping first as access would be difficult afterwards.. Pics explain it better . The area is not really accessible except by rail so I went for a disused, neglected look. Hope it turned out ok. Anyway have a look......... Landscaping..... early days with bridge Position of bridge

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