This month my focus modelling wise has been on the ground work completion at the bulk terminal end of the layout.

Jobs Completed This Month.

1, Fencing round the headshunt

This is a wills product and really simple and effective. Small holes were drilled in the cork to take the posts and the sections of fence are then glued to each other and into the holes using PVA or equivalent. 

2, All hard standing painted and put down 

My approach to hard standing remains as in previous videos. 3mm corrugated card base with a 1mm painted plastic card top. The area between the sidings was completely filled with a crossing point at either end of the sidings for access around the loader

3, Ballasted the bulk sidings

For this Ballasting I used a mix of grades and colours to give a more weathered look. This mix is explained in the video. 

I followed my usual ballast, soap water, 50/50 glue, watered down paint approach to ballasting but the added a fine scattering of dark earth and coal dust over the top to represent overspill from loading and aid with weathering.

4, Earth areas started

The small areas between the sidings and at the buffers were painted brown and then coated with dark earth and small amounts of other scatters as a base. Grass and other details will be added as part of the future weathering process of the area. 

5, Back wall primed

Not much to explain about spraying a piece of wood grey  

6, Buffer stops painted and fitted to sidings 1-3

1 is an off the shelf Accurascale product the other 2 are Peco kits built up and painted yellow with some of the primer allowed to show through to give a weathered look.

New Arrivals,

New to Leith Central since the last update have been the great little Hattons Andrew Barcley in NCB Black and some Accurascale TOPs numbered HUO hoppers.