Given the good progress over the last few weeks, things kind of took a bit of break over the last week. A visit looming of a modelling friend with entire family meant getting the house in order before the weekend and not during...

Anyway, tonight it was back to it with the washing machine running in the background. Just some simple jobs tonight, the first one painting the baseboard in a piece that will be in the tunnel. That's now black to make sure the tunnel looks like a proper tunnel:

The second part is to provide a base for the "platforms" (have a look at some of my previous posts for some examples of Austrian Narrow gauge platforms). In order to reduce the amount of ballast required, I have put some plasticard in between the sleepers to give a base. This plasti-card is about 3mm high the same height as the Roco sleepers.

It doesn't look like much, but it helps... Previously on Links Uber Dorf, I used cat food boxes. But I lost a lot of ballast when I turned the layout upside down. I blame the absorbency of the cardboard. Perhaps I should have impregnated the cardboard first...