Our Patron Saint, David, would almost certainly have been a railway modeller.  Why?  He exhorted his followers to "Gwneud y pethau bychan" or do the little things.  It's odd how little things can transform a model, so as the wind is still too much for comfortable shed work, I've been doing little things.



Little things like adding parapets and Armco to Euneda Highway.  The parapets are some moulded wood trip I filched from a friend who no longer needed it, painted with Posca paint pens in matt grey.  The Armco is Noch-Gaugemaster.  I'd made the 3d printed plates, used previously as an experiment in road making on the 3d printer, with a slot behind the kerb, partly to delineate the kerbline but also to provide a slot for pedestrian guard rail.  The Armco just slots in nicely with an interference fit.

Pylons for the road signs are some surplus OHLE masts sent to me by Simon Barnes when he changed his plans.  I will print direction signage onto some inkjet compatible plastic sheet in due course, and add some landscaping to the wide verges as well.  The nipple pink road and verges is now weathered with black poster paint powder, and is close to the pinky concrete used on the M54.  The base colour is crackle texture paint, allegedly "caramel" but if that's caramel, it's been in the shop a long time and gone off.



I had a rethink about the 3d printed self-designed entrance block to the station, and have now got two entrances, one off the bus station as previously, but one off the edge of the board fronting probably a drop off point if it wasn't where I stand to drive the trains and the exit from the layout to the fiddle yard.  I think it looks better with two entrances, and once I add some people and interior lights (I 3d printed some interior elements to simulate a ticket office and entrance to a corridor leading to the platforms) should be worth the effort.


Bollards.  Little elements that just add a simple detail usually overlooked.



The Totem Pole has now had some shrubbery added from Tajima.  More bollards to stop the taxi drivers parking on the kerb.

I originally planned to use 5cm wide paving strips for the second bus stand, but a new supply of 2.5cm paving has allowed me to create a more spacious manoeuvring area.  I've reused some ped guard rail to stop bus passengers from falling under a Leyland National.

So apart from some more benches, some road markings and of course people, that should be it until I decide to install lighting.