Well those of you who have been following my entries (more often rants) on the building of Foster Street will know that it is supposed to be set somewhere in the North West in the period up to that horrible day the railways were nationalised, and the beginning of the end began......

Anyway when viewed from the from the front, working from the left to right the urban sprawl of a typical northern town, gives way to the typical green-ish landscape we have up here between towns, the aim was capture that scrubby rough look we northerners do so well.

Anyway on the lead up to our exhibition debut I got the green bits up to a reasonable standard, and even managed to get the Domestic Overlord to try producing trees for the first time, confidently saying that it was a simple task (despite the fact that the only thing I manage to do when attempting to make trees is gluing them to my hands).

At the exhibition I don't think anyone noticed that the layout was missing most of the signals required, or that there was no fencing or walling separating the railway from the landscape. Due to the fact that I have been a good boy lately I was allowed a few hours today to work on the layout, and I resolved to at least make a start on the fencing.

So armed with my usual tools including my personal favourite weapon of mass modelling destruction (superglue ) I set to work, and managed to get the majority of the fencing complete, it just needs a spot of weathering and some rough scrub in places to make it look the part and bed it in better. I even managed to part build the occupation bridge linking the green spaces.

They say small things amuse small minds, and so flushed with my own success I decided to visit my excellent local model shop (Widnes Model Centre) to get a small flock of sheep, but the ones they had looked like a soft southern variety not the barbed-wire eating breeds we have up here, but the required ones where ordered, so that's a job for another day, and the perfect excuse to have to visit the model shop again (its almost as if I planned it that way

Well I guess its time for you to see a few pictures of the progress so far, and the excellent trees produced by the Domestic Overlord, until the next time as ever Happy Modelling.