Whilst reviewing my galleries I realised I had not updated the blog, so here are a few pictures of progress.

We have got the second board and its track done, which I will update next time, despite the first version of it warping in the warm at work and me having to make it all over again.

The young people have done all the plaster work and we have designed and built the building shells on the left from foam board.

Overall scene,

A view down the trench, towards the main gun emplacement, at the front, which has yet to have its cupola and gun added, and the half relief ruin at the back which we decided had been turned into an observation platform by the artillery, we will add a tower to the top for the observer.

The loading dock, made by spraying textured paint over foam board, with thin strips of masking tape to make the joints in the prefabricated panels.

View down the tracks from the fiddle yard.

As you can see the building shells still need work, we have to add more texture and detailing, plus the gun emplacement needs to be completed. I am thinking of using the batteries of the Atlantic Wall in WW2 as design inspiration, or the Maginot Line as both have interesting shapes that might fit. All the controls for this board are done- I will take some shots of the point operating mechanism as it was very easy and cheap to build. It has had trains tested on it and all worked but it was tricky driving on it with such a short length of track.

I have started the first loco, with the chassis and base plate done, but the young people are designing it, I sent them off to look up Clayton designs and the Panzerzug (google image search this if you don't know what it is!) for inspiration. More in a few weeks, after Taunton.