New hero on the block "Inspecting man" !!!

colours and grit look very believable.

That's all looking rather nice, Will B) The concrete is a realistic colour and will look good with a bit of weathering.

Thanks chaps.

I'm wondering about what to do with the weathering at the moment - while I'd like the layout to fit Whitemoor around 2005, I think it's going to look better as a model if I take my weathering cues from a few years later - the concrete here is pretty dark despite the sunny day, whereas this picture and this one still look interesting and have nice weeds and clutter in 2005, but with much much cleaner concrete (since it was nearly new).

Looking at these, I need to lighten the path a bit more still - my fine grit is only in one shade of grey. Or not bother, and assume that inspecting man's pea grit happened to be that colour?

Personally, I wouldn't bother worrying about the path colour too much - you could do a bit of drybrushing if you really wanted to. As long as it's a different shade to the ballast, I think it'll look OK.

The concrete weathering conundrum is a tricky one - undoubtedly, darkening it like in the later picture is the easier option. The alternative is a lot of work with drybrushing and powders to introduce subtle variations in colour in it to make it look realistic.

Will that colour looks good to me. I presume there will be some weathering at some point? Love the blog... all good advice!