Hi all,

Having 'more or less sort of finished' Victoria Bridge, I have been seeking a new modelling challenge. Here it is, or more precisely, here are its beginnings....

The project had a few elements 'set in stone':

-A 'one piece' design with a continuous run, able to run on the kitchen table, and be capable of transit on the back set of the car.
-9mm track, to allow for use as a test track for both N gauge and 009/09 projects I have in the works.
-Like Victoria Bridge, based on a preserved location, modelled in a modern image fashion.

I settled on a little 'roundy roundy' based extremely loosely on Porthmadog and Boston Lodge. The scene is, of course, compressed to an extreme degree. The curvature in the 'Harbour Station' bit is on the tight side, it will allow for bogie carriages, but will look more plausible with little four wheeler 'bug boxes' and the like.

And the name, Ysbeidiau Heulog sounds, to my untutored English ears, a bit like a place name and translates as 'Sunny Intervals'

I have an idea up my sleeve to model one half of the scene as a sunny day, the other half drenched in summery rain as if caught in a shower.

Here are some pictures of progress over the weekend:

The beginnings of the project, some preserved Ffestiniog stock, with modern passengers. (Mostly converted Airfix pilots)

The rear of 'Bostin' Lodge' works, the bricked up stationary boiler owes much to the Rev. Awdry's 'Duke the Lost Engine'....

The general overall plan. (120cm by 60cm)

The planned backscene, depicting, vaguely, the sea.... (the blue area will be a tramway section)

It is not a deeply serious model of a prototype, more a toy train set which will have some of the ambience of the real thing gently modelled into it... I am going more for colours, textures of the real thing rather than a precise model. It will be fun!