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The New Forest has a really beautiful stretch of coastline with a lot of history; yet at its east end, it's a mere stones throw from serious industrial sites like Fawley Oil Refinery and the huge power station (now undergoing demolition)! Despite featuring recognisable prototypical locations, this will be an entirely fictional account of the area, with a focus on local freight, and featuring a real ragtag collection of stock. Simply put, I've picked my favourite aspects of the area, and combined them all together in a small OO gauge layout set during preparations for the D-Day landings.

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Inspiration

Coastguard Creek - Further inspiration & New Forest coastal industries

Inspirational locations further afield For one of the blog entries for Coastguard Creek, I shared a sketch montage of many inspiring (New Forest) locations. As promised at the time, I'm back with more; but this time  from locations elsewhere (albeit within 20 miles). Some sketches aren't quite as detailed as others due to being done at different times, but I still think it helps to give a broad sense of what I'm looking to reproduce, in some capacity:     As we did with
Inspiration

Coastguard Creek - The Inspirational New Forest Coast

(With the usual apologies to those that have seen this on my external modelmaking blog) A few weeks ago, I decided to take a break from work-related projects, and dedicate some time to Coastguard Creek. Rather than work on a mock-up (as the studio is still in disarray), what actually ended up happening was that I spent a few days producing an information panel showing off inspirational locations across the New Forest coast! In all honesty, I'm not quite sure why I've drawn this, but if nothing
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