Well, I managed to find a little modelling time today, well actually I just blocked the door to the spare room, and hid from the Domestic Authority. Its amazing really how peaceful modelling can be if you turn the stereo up to a setting loud enough to just about avoid your ears bleeding, but loud enough to drown out the banging and shouting of the Domestic Overlord on the door.

When you think about it, I bet its the reason Sundays were invented, their whole purpose is to allow you to hide away from your commitments and family BLISS Anyway back to the point of this blog, the canal area on Foster Street has been waiting for some detailing for quite a while, partly because I could not decide what to do, but partly because I always found something better to do

Foster Street is loosely based in the years leading up to the dark days of Nationalisation, so it has quite a wide timespan really when you think about it. That's when I had an idea, while looking at some pictures of the Northwest through the war years and just after, it was quite common for factories to have their names painted out, or signs removed, benefit number 1 - I don't have to think of a factory name. The other thing I noticed on a few of the pictures, was the use of temporary structures to hide prying eyes, so benefit 2 I had less of an area to add detail to and I could make some interesting "tarped" over mystery loads.

There is still lots to do in the area, and the progress is at a very early stage, but the "bones" of the job are there, I just need to add the "flesh". Oh and try with the aid of a little modelling putty to produce some military looking figures, but I cant say any more its all HUSH HUSH you know

Still I have to go now, because the banging and shouting at the door has ended and all has gone strangely quiet, the Domestic Authority must be amassing the anti, modelling forces against me again. So chaps, I'm going to just step outside the modelling room for a moment, I may be gone a while................until the next time as ever Happy Modelling