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Love that station, it's full of life! Well done.

Thanks for the kind comments! And with that, I suppose it's time for a few more pics... I've continued filling space which means ballast, scatter, more ballast, paint (I darkened the roads to give them a more tarmaccy quality). I've also started to mess around with building placement on the front of...

That block of flats... Wow. Utterly stunning. I showed the Mrs who is always polite about my efforts... Well, I thought she was enthusiastic about my efforts until I showed her that completed picture of the flats.

Well done!

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing this one develop.
I've avidly followed your previous work and I'm sure this one will be as good if not better.
Added interest for me because the WCML was my 'local' line as a youngster.

Oops, I'd better pull this back from page 7! Well, work slowed down as the weather 'improved' Once more I took to the bicycle and enjoyed a good few hundred miles of pedalling. Work didn't completely stop though, I painted the lower baseboard area and recently start work on ballasting and scattering...

Looks beautiful in the NRM photos. Really nice work.

Now can you go back to 00 Gauge, you're showing us N Gaugers up with your fantastic skills
Well done on the well deserved win!

Try putting a model bus up along side it, see how that looks? I find using some pre-built stuff really helps me get a feel for what looks right with regards to scale.

I made mine around 1mm high... 2mm to the foot makes for a 6 inch kerb which seems about right to me.

Wow, thanks for all the kind messages!
I must admit, I'm really really happy with it, it sits on the layout nicely and really looks the part. Probably better in reality because the camera is always unkind to N-Gauge.

I think I'll plan things properly again in future!

A bit more plasticard and now the cinema has some depth...

briantwigley wrote:That is really good, is that just made out of 1 sheet?

Ryan

So far I've used offcuts of brick plasticard from my old Hollycroft retaining walls.
I started with a template I'd drawn up on the computer, then pasted that on to some plain plasticard... Now I'm just adding layers to build the depth up.

Started working on building up the low relief cinema tonight. Bit more complex than the bridge I built... Obviously will need about a centimetre of the side walls building in to it and the cinema sign for the front, some posters and so on. I want to build up the area round the doors too. http://kayt...

A couple more progress pics... More work on completing the retaining walls, plus the bridge is painted a bit now. http://kaytronika.webspace.virginmedia.com/layout2/120111/1.jpg Decided to have a bit of an embankment to the right, just to give me a break from modelling walls http://kaytronika.webspa...

Cracking layout Ryan, I love those Mercig commissions... They're works of art!

I know what you mean about the concrete wall.. It looks worse now because I've built most of it! I'm planning some vertical sections to give it a little depth... and yes, I think some mossy green will give it a lift too. I'm hoping when I get the rest of the layout built it'll blend in a bit better....