- a little footnote -

my scrapped Hornby 08 - with all the gears and motor removed in the previous post- came in very handy to push through the points and check everything ran smoothly as i was building them . So they did prove usefull afterall

The points look lovely! I hope to build some of them in the new year. Photo backscene with just a big sky? Sounds a little like Western Road in that there isn't a great deal of scenery, and it's more the stock that is the scenery

Morning - Western road is one of my favorites - and its going to be difficult to avoid some similarites - Western Soad is pretty much perfect as far as my modelling interest goes - although for period its a bit early. It would be nice to see it stocked up with early 90s stuff

I'd like to try and make my layout have a bit more of a run down atmostphere - and also do something with lighting - to make it look like early evening. - so the light source would be in the 'west' (front right of the layout), lots of long shadows etc.

I'm not sure about the backscene yet - a big sky may be too plain - it works on western road as that has buildings and a bit of landscaping to break it up - I was thinking of having the actual depot buildings on the backscene instead, but as silhouettes.

The exactoscale points are a bit addictive once you get into them - I think I'm going to build more than I need (originally i didnt want any points )