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Stone walls, strip of cardboard with ballast glued on, cap stones done with cat litter.

Please do

Wow, just wow, I would certainly be interested in one.

As it is very difficult to get under the landscape for wiring lights and whatnot, I run a 12v circuit around the frame with copper tape, one positive one negative, I run a third strip wired to the 12V positive via a 3V resistor, the gives me a 3v circuit as well. I can then run 12v or 3v power along along the surface to wherever it is needed, then hide it under roads, buildings or even the flower beds. A great benefit is that I don't need to individually fuse 3v lights etc as they can simply be wired directly to the 3v circuit. Of course the circuit on the frame will have to be covered over later for safety.

I will post on the next helix build so I have some more tree building tricks to try, will post if any of them work.

Thanks, but I must admit, I am getting a little obsessed with this one little corner of it, I really need to wrap it up and move on.

Plastic flowers and dry moss from The Range, some brown paint, hairspray, important safety tip ( do not steal it from your wife ). Some green scatter and some light gray coarse ballast, although I'm sure some household condiments like semolina would work just as well. Clip off a couple of the stems, pull the flowers off and chuck em, they are way too big. Paint the stalks. Shove dry moss in between the branches and apply a liberal coating of hairspray. Apply more hairspray and liberally apply scatter, I alternate between colours, this gives it a bit of shading and reduces uniformity. Apply another liberal coating of hairspray and then the gray ballast. Drill a hole, and shove it in with a little PVA, 15 minutes and you are done.

I will make some more today and take some pics of the process, it only takes a couple of minutes.

Tunnel mouth is done, my mother loves the whitethorn trees at this time of year so I figured I would try making some, I'm happy with the result.

That looks great, powder, wash or airbrush ?

Picked up a G Class kit for 50 quit on Fri, he has another one in stock, comes with the Boogie

This one is from Any Scale Models, I don't think it would out of place on an Irish layout.

The landscape is hiding one of two planned Helix leading to a subterranean fiddle yard, at least that's the plan, trains disappear into the tunnel down the helix and park up for a while and a different train appears at the station.

Looking forward to seeing this progress

Thank you all for the encouragement, but most of the credit must go to YouTube

I have been collecting bits and pieces and planning to build a layout for 40 years, I have finally started building it.

I have a full set of yellow flying snail decals, numbers etc for grey livery GM 121, I'm not going to use them, it is a shame to waste them, they are quite nice. Does anybody need them ?

Get yourself some cheap loco bodies on eBay and get some practice at it, when you have mastered some skills, then tackle some of your good stuff, but I agree it is addictive. The nice thing about Irish locos is that it is hard to overdo it, they were manky most of the time,

I got an IRM 121 kit, an sw1500 doner a couple of CIE lorries, a P&T lorry and a heap of other stuff, will somebody please buy up all his second hand Irish stock before I end up in the poor house, I even contemplated buying the old Jouef CIE loco for posterity, (my first train set) but better Council pervaled.

A lot of Cyril Fry's models were liveried with the correct paint which he got from Inchicore, but as somebody said earlier, correct colour may not scale down very well, I go with " paint what you see " but that doesn't work with b&w or poor quality photos.

I picked up a few nice bits and pieces.

I'm building a layout in Dunshaughlin, I would be interested if it is finished by then.

I think you and I are on the same mission.

Guys, Does anybody know where I could find one of these to help this lady out.