I've started many projects... and finished very few and Having bought a Bachmann Presflo that's largely out of my modelling period I thought I'd have a go at at making a miniature diorama to display it.

I took some very loose inspiration from this little corner of the Trafford Park estates;

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=john+gilbert+way&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=John+Gilbert+Way,+Trafford+M17+1,+United+Kingdom&ll=53.466184,-2.298103&spn=0,0.003433&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.465513,-2.297591&panoid=IOxEuRXZ21KXNzlVgxuikw&cbp=12,1.12,,1,11.18

Below are some images of the project (hopefully in chronological order), the frame is a very cheap postcard size wooden frame sprayed black (with the glass still in place, and a plywood base cut to fit within the frame that rests above the glass. The rear walls are some scrappy foamboard with embossed plasticard brick sheets (I believe they are from Slaters and might actually be 7mm scale). Other bits are from the odds and sods box.

Bricks were weathered with Humbrol matt scarlett(60) and ivory(41) paints, the ballast is woodland scenics medium light gray B81. The grass is a mixture of woodland scenics medium green turf and painted and dried sisal mixed with a little bit of static grass.

There's still a fair bit to do, I really need to give anything a general wash, weather a few leaks from the drainpipe and also weather the wagon a fair bit, though i might try and get hold of one without the name-boards to represent one at the end it's life.