Given the weather forecast was way out today and I managed to get to the shed without losing the door in a hoolie, I decided to add some recently bought children and mummies to the park, as well as finishing off the council house adjacent to Euneda Highway.



The park with the lighting set to "summer dusk" (orange tint with 50% light level) as the plastic citizens of Wednesford cool off in the park as the sun sets.  The phone camera doesn't show the effect very well but with the Mk1 eyeball it is effective.  As I am slowly adding coin cell operated, magnetic reed-switch controlled lighting to my unlit fleet (the intention is to have at least one "inter-city" rake and one DMU with internal lighting for each of the 1968, 1975, 1988 and 1993 timetables, although the last two are already provided for with a Bachmann DCC Mk2f rake and an Oxford Mk3 rake which I added track operated internal lights to) having adjustable lighting levels and colour on the layout will add to the ambience.  The coin-cell reed lights cost about a tenner from China, although the base module is only about four seating bays long, but you can add extension lights so, for about £12 overall you can add lighting, externally controlled, to anything.  So far I've added lights to a Bachmann Mk2a BSO, a Replica Mk1 FO and a Hornby Mk2e where modifying the coach to get rid of the visible panty line chassis fault was more complicated than adding the lights.



Bedtime?  What bedtime?  We don't have to go to school tomorrow...

Three boys have a debate about playing kickball on the grass, two girls try to become the first kids in space on the see-saw, a crowd of kids are on the roundabout wondering who will get them going, two mums stand gassing oblivious to the peril their little daaahlings are in on the slide where an almighty pile up is about to happen as two girls hurtle down in close succession, whilst little Johnny stands perilously waving to his mum who is blithely ignoring him.

A mix of Preiser and Woodland Scenics figures



Boy on scooter aims for two people talking to some of the new patrons of the kiosk, which is doing a roaring trade in jubblies, ice cream, Kia Ora and crisps, so much so they've added two new 3d printed picnic benches to the area.



The Fagg End estate.  The house is from Peedie models, a half-depth concrete rendered modern semi of a type commonplace on 1960s estates.  I plan to design and print a "lightbox" front room to allow the house to have lit front rooms without causing any light spill, and also intend to add street lights.  The walls are from PK models.  I will be adding suitable figures in due course.  Under the shadow of the Euneda Highway flyover is a path linking the rest of Fagg End to the subway under the road which emerges presently next to the prefabs but will eventually link to phase 2 of the estate.  A street lamp will light the area eventually.

The Peedie models house is a cracking model, very well detailed and sturdy, and a fraction of the price of half depth buildings produced by the larger manufacturers, and was made and painted to order in a very quick time, especially as it came down from Orkney!



As the sun sinks lower into the pollution of the West Midlands the old Tudor Court gets bathed in a fiery glow.