It's starting to come together. Not sure of the paint finishes for the tunnel mouth. I live in a small Spanish seaside town and it's not easy to buy modelling materials.
I've a number of 1 and 2mm sheets of ply left over from a previous hobby/project which I intend to make use of here.
Here is the start of the construction of the tunnel by making a ply armature which will be overlaid with Modroc.
Work on the track will have to wait a few more weeks as I will have to wait for C&L to get back to normal after their break-in and robbery last weekend.
The story begins some 25 years ago (55 years if my schoolboy Hornby Dublo counts) when I was seriously interested creating an EM gauge layout modelling Barnstaple Junction using C&L points. What particularly interested me was the point work at the northern end of the station ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstaple_railway_station#/image/File:Barnstaple_Junction_railway_station_1972067_31fed26e.jpg). Despite many hours, weeks and months of research the project never came to fruition becau
