Evening All,

spent a productive evening on the dining room table last night, enjoying 'Father Ted Night' and butchering some lumps of foam into scenic shapes. It was a good time to be doing it, as all of the Christmas decorations came down today, which would have called upon some extreme hoovering anyway, so a dusting of foam debris on the floor was not such an inconvenience!

The foam blocks help to put the 'monorail' track into some sort of context, as the pieces grew, the proportions of the scene started to work quite nicely.

The crumbly white foam was attached to the plasticky formica-ish surface of the box with 'GWS' foam friendly glue, designed for attaching foam RC model aeroplanes together, it worked very well, most importantly, not melting anything.

With the bits in place, attached firmly, surgery with a carving knife began...

Some handy festive accesories give a rough idea of how the trees will dominate the 'southern' end. Dougal looks on in perplexed awe....

Finally, for now, this morning saw the application of bandage and PVA to put a skin on the surface. This was also handy as it minimises little bits of foam debris from floating around as the post christmas tidying begins!