Having laid all the track on Lancaster Road, I've started detailing it before ballasting and platform edges get in the way. Firstly, some C+L fine scale fishplates which look under-sized on code 100 rail, but I reckon with painting will look better than no fishplates. Where I feel safe the track won't move before ballasting I've removed the rail-joiners to improve the appearance. I have a list to work on including the wire-in-tube (I've cut the web between sleepers to get the tube in the right places), cosmetic point-rodding, (primarily for the cross-overs) point levers for the sidings, painting rails, sleepers and details.

I've been adding scenic materials to a trial piece of track, grey/brown painted sleepers, rust painted rail, Green Scenes ballast, 4 mm 'summer' static grass, a strip of grass mat and very fine sand-dust. I'm pleased with the result, but, there's too much grass on the track and the grass is too bright and too long, so I've bought some 2 mm 'winter' grass for a further trial.