Patrick Davey

Look out for more posts After Eight tonight.

Glad to get it wrapped up though

I was worried in case I was getting a bit toffee-nosed…..

So it turns out that the new style of paper on the Quality Street sweets works a treat for what I was trying to achieve! As I had hoped, it helps to dull down the brightness of these lights, and also adds the distinctive sodium glare:

I knew this would ignite something for sure

Not railway-related but of interest......poor guy! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68226509 Got to be some puns in this....

Yeah saw that but am hoping the thicker paper will help tone down the brightness (a cheap resistor!) as well as give the orange 'sodium' glare....... will be checking this later

Lovely Colin - the long sweeping curve really shows the train off to great advantage. Would like to see more of the layout too!

Afternoon everyone - maybe this feature exists already and I haven't found it but I have been thinking that it would be handy (and nostalgic!) to have all the photos from a thread viewable in one place, a kind of gallery within a thread. It's handy when you can click on a photo and scroll through any others within the same post - could that feature be extended to include all the photos from the thread or could they be made available elsewhere in a searchable gallery? Just a thought!

One of the first structures I built for this project was a disused tea room, but as the layout developed I realised the the room was a bit too large....... appropriate surgery was undertaken by removing a portion of the building's rear and thankfully the patient has emerged without any lasting damage. Bedding in and landscaping shall commence in due course.

Spotted a nice pack of trees in my local Hobbycraft and lo and behold they are now on the layout! Another detail added too, a war grave commemorating the crash of a Vickers Wellington and the loss of her Canadian air crew.

Mesmerising stuff!!!

Looks like an amazing layout, would love to see more! Coaches are fantastic!!!

So the Bangor show is coming up. I wonder might there be any announcements which would have relevance to this thread………

Hopefully the DCC chip is of good quality and doesn’t get fried

Great slice of humour there GM

Resisting the temptation to milk this one

Just amazing - lovely lovely work!!

Nnnnnnnnnnnice

Brookhall is much smaller but took the guts of three years, so I didn’t want that to happen on this project

I have just had a look back at the start of this thread, and I thought I would re-post an early photo along with a comparison view from the same angle this evening! Thankfully, there has been some progress made during the intervening six-month period!

More foliage being added to this part of the layout.

I was thinking it gives me an excuse to buy a box of Quality Street then I will have lots of shades to choose from!!!

Here’s my contribution to this very useful thread! Due to impatience, my current project progressed beyond the stage where it was still straightforward to add lighting to the buildings, so I started thinking of alternatives. I was looking for miniature lights which could be placed individually in rooms and I found a set of 10 tiny key rings on Amazon, for only £7.00: So I took off the metal key ring parts and using double sided tape, I fixed the torch parts to the underside of the roofs of my buildings: Yes, it’s not as straightforward (or as professional) as flicking a switch to turn all the lights on and off, but it’s considerably cheaper and does not involve complex wiring! In fact, it doesn’t involve any wiring

Is a few kind members have been asking me about this new method of lighting so I’m going to post it under the ‘Cheap Modelling Materials’ thread! It’s actually a bit embarrassing how much of a cheat this is……..