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Looking a bit tidier now by Will Vale, on Flickr
I forgot to pose a train! Rats... But I thought it was worth posting the picture anyway since it shows quite clearly what's done and what's to do. The key thing I've done today is sand down the baseboard, round all the corners, prime and paint it. I also sanded down the brush marks on the pelmet and brackets, dusted them off, and gave them two more coats of black with a roller. The fascias have had one of primer, three of semi-gloss acrylic "enamel", also with a roller. The one I have was left in our house by the previous owners and probably isn't appropriate - it's foam - but it does leave a nice dimpled surface which is probably more forgiving than a properly smooth one.
I feel much better now - still a lot to do, but the weather-critical thing is out of the way. We had a fine day today so I took lunchtime to do most of the work, and did some day-job stuff the night before to give me another couple of hours. Forecast for the rest of the week is much less promising.
Next job: the river? Then stick down the loose mountain at the right front.
The picture is taken under the layout's own lighting, as Mr. Nevard would say 
I took the white point off the wall behind it so it ought to be fairly representative of what it looks like for real, although this is taken at night so there's not much ambient filling things in. The pelmet houses a couple of T5 fluorescent fixtures daisy-chained together with daylight (looks like 6400K) tubes. It was a mission to get hold of two compatible, not broken, fixtures for reasons which aren't worth going into, but I do have them now.
(detail of previous pic, since I don't have a Flickr Pro account...)
The scenery is mostly Woodland Scenics, which I think shows a little, but it will probably look more interesting when the trees go in. There's also the need for a lot more greenery breaking up the cliff faces, and all the plain brown or grey stuff needs covering up.
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