After taking a diversion into laser printing for the future city centre of my model, I've been putting my 3d skills to more currently practical use.

The station retaining wall along Livery Street has been designed and indeed printed. It wasn't cheap and the brickwork is \ little hit and miss, but I did it this way for several reasons.

1 Speed - a have a very low boredom threshold and lots of unfinished projects. This way I could get most of the wall done before I got diverted to something else.

2 Uniformity - it was important to me that the wall was done to a certain degree of accuracy. This wall is going to support the cast iron screen wall whch will be made up of printed elements and I wanted them to line up correctly, if the eventual roof is ever going to sit correctly and not be floating away in one or other corner.

Unfortunately as each wall panel is different, as the road rises along the length of the station, it meant that each panel had to be drawn out using the previous one as a starting point. This also meant it wasn't going to be possible to print one and then cast it.

Hear are some photos of the painted prints not yet stuck into place and with a mock up of the screen wall placed on top.

Finally I've mocked up some of the platform buildings using screen shots of the "kit of parts" shown on earlier blog entries.

For the monent I'm going to concentrate on painting and fixing the retaining wall and getting all the platforms built.