Having received some help from other members about siting point machines (thanks guys!) I've been extending my crossing timbers in readiness.

I cut up some spare sleepers left behind by track laying, shaving off one chair and trimming short of the other. These are glued in line with the crossing timbers - they look long to me, but with the point machine they seem about right - and the length is based on pictures of Whitemoor, so it ought to be legit. I've had a first pass at puttying to blend them into the Peco moulding, with limited success - applying the putty is tricky since everything moves around on the cork. Still, some of them look reasonable, and with a coat of paint it's a lot easier to see where to focus my efforts on tidying up. I'm going to go back this evening with Tamiya putty which is very soft, unlike the Miliput I used last night.

Finally I posed one of the point machines for the fun of it - the blending on this pair is particularly awful though

Annoyingly the Peco single slip (not shown) has very short switch rails so that if the point machine is installed correctly, the detection rods will be past the ends. I'm hoping that I can make this look OK somehow.