Essentially just so I can ballast the headshunt, scenery has started appearing. For my terra-forming I'm using good old papier mache - not lest because you can make a bucket of wallpaper paste and it lasts days. Peco O gauge point boxes are a brilliant source of good strong cardboard.

And then fix the steps in place (about half way between the slightly over-scale oil can and the wall).

And add lashings of paper strips. This will get a brown 'undercoat' then flock, static grass and bushes to represent some rough ground kids might play on. A stone wall goes where oil can is. The footpath crosses the headshunt via the barrow crossing (see earlier as to why that's there) and then... not sure yet. There will be an old fashioned yard/street lamp top and bottom of the steps. Now to cross the lines and create the field there, up to the signal box which will be accompanied by a lampman's shed and a platelayers hut. A line of trees with hide the horizon.

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