Having removed a sizable portion of scenery yesterday I was informed this morning that the BBC would be filming something in the club later this week and could I please position some stock on the layout. I've spent my afternoon at the club making both the new loading dock and the platform on the large clay dry presentable.

The foamboard we had cut to rough shape was used as a base. All of this will have to be redone properly in the future so I wanted to make disassembly easy. I used double sided tape throughout. First the layers were stacked, then brick sheet was cut to form the two visible sides.

The tops of the platform was then covered in tape to which ballast was applied. I sprinkled dark green ground foam around the edges to hide the joints

The large platform presented more of a problem. There is lots of blue foam visible and lots of cut outs for ladders.

I decided that the cut outs were too much effort for something temporary. If we had had any stone sheet I might have acted differently but brick was all that we had.

The top edge of the platform does not bear close inspection but overall it is much more presentable and I am please with the result.

About 90 minutes work.