Amongst other things (including posting off the order for track) have been looking at plans and buildings today, for the trial run I am looking for simple plans and came back to the idea of building another Deadwater but in 2mm or looking at the Speyside line from Nethy Bridge to Craigellachie.

Heres a few picutres from a previous visit

- would anyone care to hazard a guess to the dimensions of this magnificent goods shed?

I've been looking at the kestrel kits that I have acquired with a view to using them for building aids, made a start on the country station today, I picked this up sometime ago on the grounds that with a few modifications it would not look a million miles from either the border counties or some of the other small stations in Scotland.

I intend to not use the canopy, and am in the process of making modifiactions to the front layout of the building:

at close of play, you can only deal with this sort of thing for a small length of time!

- the new windows are now glued in, the etches become rather bent with all the handling, and trying to straighten them up whilst the glue is wet just pings them back off! so going to let the glue go off then straighten everything up, then add strips of plastruct into the gaps between frames.

- by no means perfect but I think should look OK once the windows tidied up then painted etc, and its better than I could of scratchbuilt I think.

now some 'in progress' shots

at first when modifying the building I actually broke the front of it , it has mended pretty sucessfuly and I am sure will look OK after filling and painting!

the last pic of the 3 shows how the front has been altered with a timber frame section, the etched windows yet to be added.