Finally!!

You can see the board, having been built. It's taken a while but here we are...

So what has been done?

So after my Birthday, I was given two more BR Mineral Parkside wagon kits - A second Riveted version and a welded version, both kits were relatively easy to work on and are now in primer awaiting some good weather to put them into BR Grey.

Board 4

Work has advanced pretty quickly with board 4, today 24/10/18 I had an opportunity to get my wood from B&Q as soon as I got home I finished the board allowing me to begin working on laying track and gauging the sleepers into place.

Once the track had been gauged and checked it gave me an opportunity to put all the little pieces together which I've been working on over these past few weeks. Which turned out really well once I put the layout together.

The next job was to paint the board in certain areas so the layout can be prepped for the grass to go down, of course before that could happen I had to put the ballast down, now before I did this I had to go back to photographs from the Wisbeach & Upwell line and from the Middy. I was then given an idea so the ballast went down to make the track look W&U styled and influenced. Which I feel it certainly is, this section of the whole layout is meant to be completely different from the previous three and the next few.

The results so far have been very good I feel and I hope tomorrow when the ballast is dry I can clean up the mess which inevitably been made...

Board 1:

As for board 1, this is nearly complete, with the layout looking simply amazing. All the stops have been put out on this and in doing so board 2 now needs to be completely revamped so it matches. The Station building is nearly complete and just for some modeling interest, the building has just started to receive the LNER standard cream and green livery. Which I think is a brilliant idea and something that is not shown too much on model railways

Board 2:

So far work on the cattle dock has progressed slightly with myself and another club member working on putting the posts in the holes, we aim to get the wire put in place this weekend.

So yeah, lot's being done, lots more to do!

So until next time...