After having visited the model shop on Saturday I came back with a small fortune's worth of Plastruct, I decided to start work on the aerial ropeway. But no matter how much you spend on Plastruct, you never seem to have enough!

Anyway so I set about constructing the second aerial ropeway pylon. The first one will be reused from the diorama I built 3 years ago. It could do with a bit more bracing, but it'll do for now! In reality the pylons would be spaced a lot further apart (probably in the region of between 80-100cm in 1:76 scale), but modellers license is the way I do things.

Thanks to the "Britain from Above" website, I have managed to see a little bit more detail on the ropeway, however, the dock unloading/loading station is still hard to determine exactly what it looked like. I will say, the whole layout will not be accurate, and I have taken a few liberties with the design of it. For example, the pylons have a simplified design compared to the real things, but I have taken care to show the general look of them.

Anyway so here is where I have got up to so far:

Still more left to do, but the general shape is there. A bit more cross bracing, some pulleys, and a lick of paint and it should look fine.

This shows my rough initial design for the ropeway jetty station. I will go into more depth on what I propose for this structure later on. The reference photos I have are very vague so I am making this one up as I go along! Tomorrow I plan to start construction of the jetty ropeway station, so that should be an interesting challenge to build! I'll document my construction throughout.