Things have been hectic over the last couple of days as you may have read in ERs, but I'm trying to keep it all together. I find modelling is a great relief from all the stresses of life and today was no exception.

As it is such a major part of the layout I wanted to start construction of the castle now (especially as the layouts debut exhibition is on 4th September!) . Luckily, Saturday I planned ahead and bought some brick sheets and now after about 8hrs of work I have created the gatehouse for the castle. Still loads more to do. Drainpipes, hipped roofs (yes, plural!) and all that scribing on the stone areas. Oh and settling in of the two halves.

Gatehouse:

Prototype:

And as an aside, my rake of weathered wagons: