I was about to make a start on the fiddle yard extension to Nevic Entier when I noticed that I had enough materials to construct a reasonable sized shunting plank. This made me change my plans somewhat considerably. A new micro layout would give me somewhere to take pictures of stock and also allow me to finally use all those buses my dad purchased for me.

So last night I used the scraps of wood I had left over to form a pretty crude baseboard and this morning I layed the track, created the frame for the hill, filled the frame with scrunched up paper, covered it with modrock, painted the baseboard grey, ballasted the track. This afternoon I painted the inside of the tunnel, fitted the top onto the hill, added the scatter, had a go at weathering the track with some acrylic paint and stuck down some Metcalf Coblestones and pavements.

Its not looking too bad for less than 24 hours work! The 08 was my very first loco in N gauge. It must be well over 16 years old now!

The carriaged in the above photo come from Lima and Minitrix. They are not the best but they are going to be weathered using a variety of techniques to hone my skills. Plus they are BR blue and will be made to look quite shabby which is the look I want.

The basic premise of this little line is that it is on a short industrial spur that has since been used by a heritage transport company with their museum. I was influenced by Telford Steam Railways smaller operation and the 08 would take small trips around the yard in a brake van.

I have built the layout so it can be extended to a fiddle yard at both ends so there is scope for further operations.

The cost for this project has so far been 0 because of the fact I am using stuff I already had in stock. I am also going to use the scalescenes free sample low relief warehouse to make the backscene more interesting. Depending on how easy that is to make I may splash out on the scalescenes low relief flats for above the tunnel.