Not much progress on the first Shillingstone module lately, largely because I've been spending my modelling time finishing a continuous run through the other boards. Although it's currently just a loop with a fiddleyard along one side, I can at least run trains again - great fun after two years of not having a proper 4mm layout. Some of the engines I've been fiddling with over the last couple of years are at last getting a chance to stretch their legs, which has been very satisfying - it's been great just watching Banbury Castle circle slowly around the room on the fish train. Most of my stock is still in boxes, so I apologise for trotting out the green Maunsell stock yet again.

However I decided it was time I did a bit more scenery so last night I glued in some Ratio fence posts to demark the railway boundary. They're sold as GWR posts but I'm not going to lose any sleep over that. I put in the posts at 20mm spacing and allowed them to dry overnight. Today I began to add the wire, using the supplied filament. I know there are probably finer (and more durable) alternatives but the Ratio stuff will do for me. It's blinking fiddly though - get the swear box out! Just as you've got one secured, you try and attach the line to next post along and the last three or four come unglued. Much grrr-ing and going back and forth until you get it sort of where it ought to be. It's still not very neat or regular but this was still a bit of a breakthrough for me as I managed to get four wires on - I don't think I've ever managed more than three before. It should be more than four but I'll hide the lower part of the posts in undergrowth. I'll let it all set dry then paint it tomorrow, using pale-ish grey-brown.

As mentioned in one of the comments somewhere, I've not currently got a lighting rig in place for this module, so it's being illuminated by a dangling bulb in the middle of the room - hence the shadows and general lack of sharpness. Hopefully that should improve when I install the rig, but I need to get some wood from Focus first.