Looking really good Tim , can I put in an order for 4 blocks of 4 built on the level

please . :-)

Do you have any additional brickwork paper to add below the right hand side houses, where the ground level will drop below the door sill ?

I do like the bricks forming the lintels over the doors & windows - very effective.

Do you have any additional brickwork paper to add below the right hand side houses, where the ground level will drop below the door sill ?I do like the bricks forming the lintels over the doors & windows - very effective.

Hi Stu, yes, I've got some spare, and will be doing just that (did it on the first row as well).

This is looking very impressive. I have only just found your blog, have you been building this for a long time? All the layouts I see on here make me long to get into our new house and start one myself.Peter

Hi, thanks for the kind words. I have actually been building this layout since 2004 or 2005; it's been so long that I can't quite remember!! One reason for the delay was the need to extend the baseboards, which I think I did around 2007. Keeping the two OO layouts fit for shows also took up much time, plus the fact that this layout features a lot more buildings than I am normally used to...

Hi,Excellent looking houses, all the better for not being on a level,Who was the kit from are are they a scratch built design?

Thanks, the cottages in this thread are Howard Scenics kits, cut down slightly to fit a tapering area at the back of the layout, so these part-relief structures will be hard up against the backscene.

The two sets of cottage fronts featured in this thread are more or less 'as per the kit', although I scratchbuild my own windows, as the printed acetate ones provided by Freestone Model Accessories (who now own Howard Scenics) don't have enough relief for my liking, and are also printed in white, which is fine for later styles, but wasn't that common a colour for window frames in the early 1960s.

The cottage backs featured on another thread in this blog are also Howard Scenics (they do a 'cottage backs' kit), but rather more modified this time, again to fit a narrow, tapering space at the back of the layout.